Christian McKay
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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
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89%
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87%
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85%
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83%
Filmography
MOVIES
| RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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| No Score Yet | The Leisure Seeker |
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— | 2018 |
| 87% | Florence Foster Jenkins |
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$27.4M | 2016 |
| 47% | The Young Messiah |
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— | 2016 |
| 0% | ChickLit |
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— | 2016 |
| 79% | Northern Soul |
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$7.3k | 2015 |
| 46% | Closer To The Moon |
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— | 2015 |
| 17% | Serena |
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$0.4M | 2015 |
| 31% | The Devil's Violinist |
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$8.5k | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | Creditors |
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— | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | Draw On Sweet Night |
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— | 2015 |
| 79% | The Theory of Everything |
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$35.9M | 2014 |
| 89% | Rush |
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$22.5M | 2013 |
| 83% | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy |
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$20.2M | 2011 |
| 12% | I Melt with You |
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$4.7k | 2011 |
| 55% | Mr. Nice |
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— | 2011 |
| 45% | You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger |
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$3.2M | 2010 |
| 85% | Me and Orson Welles |
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$1.1M | 2009 |
TV
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1971-2015
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| No Score Yet |
Borgia
2011-2014
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Quotes from Christian McKay's Characters
| Cleopas: | "I hate hiding in caves!" |
| Cleopas: | I hate hiding in caves! |
| 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): | That's all we need: a dozen critics with wet asses. |
| 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... |