Christian McKay

English actor Christian McKay was a Hollywood unknown when director Richard Linklater chose him to play the auspicious title role in his 2008 film Me & Orson Welles, but it was McKay's uncanny impersonation of the legendary filmmaker that eventually won him the part. A 2001 graduate of Britain's prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and a veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, McKay had often been compared to Welles in likeness and was noted for having a similar air of intelligence. After graduating from the Academy, McKay continued to grow a list of impressive stage credits that he'd already begun in school, soon becoming a popular name in British theater. He even tried his hand at some minor work in U.K. television and also became an accomplished concert pianist, but it was the eventual collaboration with Linklater that would serve as his fore into film.

Highest Rated Movies

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
37%	The Leisure Seeker	Will	—	2018
57%	Crooked House	Roger Leonides	—	2017
88%	Florence Foster Jenkins	Earl Wilson	$27.4M	2016
46%	The Young Messiah	Cleopas	—	2016
13%	ChickLit	David Rose	—	2016
78%	Northern Soul	John's Dad	$7.3K	2015
46%	Closer To The Moon	Iorgu	—	2015
16%	Serena	Banker in Boston	$0.4M	2015
31%	The Devil's Violinist	John Watson	$8.5K	2015
No Score Yet	Creditors	Actor	—	2015
No Score Yet	Draw On Sweet Night	Actor	—	2015
79%	The Theory of Everything	Roger Penrose	$35.9M	2014
88%	Rush	Lord Hesketh	$22.5M	2013
83%	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Mackelvore	$20.3M	2011
14%	I Melt with You	Tim	$4.7K	2011
53%	Mr. Nice	Hamilton McMillan	—	2011
45%	You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger	Poker Friend	$3.3M	2010
85%	Me and Orson Welles	Orson Welles (Brutus)	$1.1M	2009

Rating	Title	Credit	Year
No Score Yet	Borgia 2011-2014	Cardinal Sforza	2011
No Score Yet	Masterpiece 1971-2014	Cope	2010

Joseph: He's just a child.
Cleopas: No. I was just a child and so were you, but he is not just a child.

Lord Hesketh: They could never have imagined, those pioneers who invented the automobile that it would possess us like this, our imaginations, our dreams. Nursie, men love women, but even more than that, men love cars.

Tim: Nothing mattered when we were together. And when we were apart, I felt him. I felt him, like my own breath.

Orson Welles (Brutus): Those back-doors don't open for Jesus Christ himself!

Orson Welles (Brutus): Consonants, consonants, consonants...and don't forget the vowels.

Orson Welles (Brutus): Look at us, Runyon. Me without my story and you without your girl. We can't ever tell what will happen at all, can we? Once I stood in Grand Central Station to say goodbye to a pretty girl. I was wild about her. In fact, we decided we couldn't live without each other, and we were to be married. When we came to say goodbye we knew we wouldn't see each other for almost a year. I thought I couldn't live through it - and she stood there crying. Well, I don't even know where she lives now, or if she is living. If she ever thinks of me at all, she probably imagines I'm still dancing in some ballroom somewhere... Life and money both behave like quicksilver in a nest of cracks. And when they're gone we can't tell where - or what the devil we did with 'em...