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Occupation
  
Actor

Role
  
Theatre actor

Name
  
James Mackay

Years active
  
2009–present


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Born
  
20 July 1984 (age 39) (
1984-07-20
)

Movies
  
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, The Lovers, The Dressmaker, Manny Gets Censored, Skin Deep

Similar People
  
Julia Blake, Troy Nixey, Barry Otto, Jocelyn Moorhouse, Gyton Grantley

Music director
  
Manny Gets Censored

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James Mackay (born 20 July 1984) is an Australian actor.

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Early life and education

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Mackay attended Sydney Grammar School in Sydney, Australia, where he first starting acting in school plays.

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Mackay studied at the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in history and English literature, before training as an actor at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth.

Acting: stage

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In 2013 Mackay played Irwin in the Alan Bennett play The History Boys at the Sydney Opera House, alongside John Wood, Heather Mitchell and Paul Goddard. In 2012 he performed with the Sydney Theatre Company as Danceny in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, with Hugo Weaving and Pamela Rabe.

Mackay was an artistic associate of independent theatre company Cry Havoc. He worked on two shows with the company, William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in 2009 (playing Marc Antony), and Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters in 2010 (playing Andrey), for which he also collaborated on an original music score.

Acting: film and television

Mackay most recently appeared as William Beaumont in the 2015 Australian film The Dressmaker with Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving. He is also credited on imdb.com as having worked on the films Hacksaw Ridge, directed by Mel Gibson, and the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, the next instalment of Jerry Bruckheimer's franchise, directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg.

Other credits include Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, starring Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce, and The Lovers, directed by Palme d'Or winner and Oscar nominee Roland Joffé (The Mission, The Killing Fields). Mackay also played roles in the 2012 horror-thriller Redd Inc (released as Inhuman Resources in the US), Matchbox Pictures’ series The Straits, a crime drama filmed in Cairns and the Torres Straits, and the 2012 television comedy Micro Nation.

In 2017, Mackay was cast in The CW's Dynasty reboot as Steven Carrington.

Awards

In June 2013 Mackay was the recipient of the fifth annual Australians in Film Heath Ledger Scholarship.

References

James Mackay (actor) Wikipedia