James Mackay is an Australian-born theatre, film and television actor.
Education
Mackay attended Sydney Grammar School in Sydney, Australia, where he first starting acting in school plays. 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.
Career
Acting – stage 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 Company as Danceny in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, with Hugo Weaving and Pamela Rabe. He worked on two shows with the company, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in 2009 (playing Marc Antony), and 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 upcoming films Hacksaw Ridge, directed by Mel Gibson, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell Number Tales, the next instalment of Jerry Bruckheimer"s franchise, directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg. Mackay also played roles in the 2012 horror-thriller Redd Incorporated (released as Inhuman Resources in the United States), Matchbox Pictures’ series The Straits, a crime drama filmed in Cairns and the Torres Straits, and the 2012 television comedy Micro Nation.