Biography

Christian McKay was born in Bury, Lancashire. He is an actor and classical musician. Christian received international acclaim for his performance in Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles (2008) as Orson Welles, a role he also interpreted in the one-man play "Rosebud: The Lives of Orson Welles" at a number of venues, including the Edinburgh Festival and King's Head in London, and in US at the "Brits Off Broadway" festival 2007. Among others, his excellent film work also includes gems such as in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Rush (2013), The Theory of Everything (2014) and Florence Foster Jenkins (2016).
- IMDb mini biography by: Christian McKay and Markos.

He was commissioned a Colonel by the State of Kentucky in 2009.

Graduated from the University of York with performances of the Liszt Sonata and Rachmaninoff Third Piano Concerto.

He was a chorister at Manchester Cathedral.

Graduated from RADA in 2001.

He studied piano with Professor Ryszard Bakst, Charles Hopkins and Peter Katin.

(on Me and Orson Welles (2008)) Richard Linklater thought his Orson would be on the London stage playing Shakespeare. I was briefly, but I didn't tell him I was playing a eunuch.

(on Me and Orson Welles (2008)) I am the only actor who ever had to lose weight to play Orson Welles.