Christian McKay was born in Bury, Lancashire. He is an actor and classical musician. Christian received international acclaim for his performance in Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles (2008) as Orson Welles, a role he also interpreted in the one-man play “Rosebud: The Lives of Orson Welles”” at a number of venues, including the Edinburgh Festival and King’s Head in London, and in US at the “”Brits Off Broadway”” festival 2007. Among others, his excellent film work also includes gems such as in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Rush (2013), The Theory of Everything (2014) and Florence Foster Jenkins (2016).”
Christian McKay
Movies
Rush
Set against the sexy, glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing in the 1970s, the film is based on the true story of a great sporting rivalry between handsome English playboy James Hunt (Hemsworth), and his methodical, brilliant opponent, Austrian driver Niki Lauda (Bruhl). The story follows their distinctly-different personal…
Fun Facts
Graduated from RADA in 2001.
He was a chorister at Manchester Cathedral.
He studied piano with Professor Ryszard Bakst, Charles Hopkins and Peter Katin.
Graduated from the University of York with performances of the Liszt Sonata and Rachmaninoff Third Piano Concerto.
He was commissioned a Colonel by the State of Kentucky in 2009.
Quotes
(on Me and Orson Welles (2008)) Richard Linklater thought his Orson would be on the London stage playing Shakespeare. I was briefly, but I didn't tell him I was playing a eunuch.
(on Me and Orson Welles (2008)) I am the only actor who ever had to lose weight to play Orson Welles.