Biography

Christian McKay (Orson Welles)

Christian McKay began his musical education as a chorister at Manchester Cathedral, before studying piano at Chetham’s School of Music and, subsequently, at the University of York, the Royal College of Music and the Queensland Conservatorium in Australia.  After several years touring Europe and Australia as a successful and critically-acclaimed concert pianist, he turned to acting, training at RADA (The Royal College of Dramatic Art).  On graduation, he was recommended by Lord (Richard) Attenborough to the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing in Anthony and Cleopatra at Stratford-Upon-Avon and in London’s West End.  His other successful stage appearances include his award-winning performance as Orson Welles in Rosebud: The Lives of Orson Welles at the Edinburgh Festival and in London, Toronto, and New York.  His feature film debut, Abraham’s Point, with Mackenzie Crook, was completed shortly before he began work on Me and Orson Welles. He can next be seen in Bernard Rose’s biopic of drug smuggler turned author and raconteur Howard Marks, Mr. Nice and the new untitled Woody Allen film which has just completed principal photography.

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