George MacKay (actor)

Who they were

Personal life During the filming of How I Live Now in 2013, MacKay was briefly in a relationship with co-star Saoirse Ronan . [ 1 ] In November 2023, MacKay married his long-term girlfriend Doone Forsyth, [ 2 ] a makeup artist and hair stylist whom he met on the set of 1917. The couple have two children. [ 3 ] In January 2023, MacKay was one of almost 100 film and TV industry figures in the UK to sign a letter calling on the government to take "immediate action" against Iran 's executions.

George Andrew J. MacKay is an English actor. He began his career as a child actor in Peter Pan (2003). He had starring roles in the British war drama Private Peaceful (2012), the romantic film How I Live Now (2013), For Those in Peril (2013), for which he won a BAFTA Scotland Award, and Marrowbone (2017). He gained wider recognition for his leading role in the war film 1917 (2019) and won a British Independent Film Award for his performance in Femme (2023).

Early life

Educated at: The Harrodian School.

Early life MacKay was born in Hammersmith , London to Kim Baker, a British costume designer from London, and Paul MacKay, an Australian lighting and stage management worker from Adelaide . [ 1 ] He is of partial Irish descent on his mother's side, his maternal grandmother being from Cork . [ 2 ] [ 1 ] He grew up in the London district of Barnes with his younger sister. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] MacKay attended The Harrodian School , a private school in London.

Path and career

Awards / honours: Trophée Chopard.

Career 2002–2012: Beginnings as a child actor MacKay at the premiere for The Boys are Back in 2009 In 2002, MacKay was spotted at school by an acting scout who asked him to audition for a role in P. J. Hogan 's 2003 film adaptation of Peter Pan . He attended a workshop and won the role of one of the Lost Boys , Curly, in what was his first professional acting job. [ 1 ] In 2005, at the age of 13, he won the role of Riccio in The Thief Lord ,

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George MacKay (actor) appears on our March 13 calendar for 1992 as a birth entry.