Christian McKay

Christian McKay

Born: November 11, 1973
in Bury, UK

Movies for Christian McKay...

Title: FDR
Character: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Released: May 29, 2023
Type: TV
The three-part miniseries chronicles the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the thirty-second President of the United States.
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Title: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Character: Giles Newcombe
Released: July 15, 2022
Type: Movie
A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.
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Fjällnäs
Title: Fjällnäs
Character: John
Released: August 9, 2021
Type: Movie
An eco-artist embarks on a trip to a symposium in remote Sweden, herself the keynote figure. Fears of her work being exposed begin to manifest and a suspicious man who's doggedly undermining her every move, provokes her self- sabotage.
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The Second Hearing
Title: The Second Hearing
Character: Richard
Released: May 13, 2019
Type: Movie
The cold-hearted AI that runs a futuristic prison summons a prisoner to face his second parole hearing. Can he re-enact his crime without offending again?
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Title: Warrior
Character: Samuel Blake
Released: April 5, 2019
Type: TV
A gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who immigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances, and becomes a hatchet man for one of Chinatown’s most powerful tongs.
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The Leisure Seeker
Title: The Leisure Seeker
Character: Will Spencer
Released: January 3, 2018
Type: Movie
A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey from Boston to Key West, recapturing their passion for life and their love for each other on a road trip that provides revelation and surprise right up to the very end.
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Crooked House
Title: Crooked House
Character: Roger Leonides
Released: September 6, 2017
Type: Movie
A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.
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Provenance
Title: Provenance
Character: John
Released: June 17, 2017
Type: Movie
A classical musician travels to the South of France to escape his demons and wait for his new love, a younger woman named Sophia. Trying to come to peace with his new life in these slow, peaceful surroundings, his seemingly chance meeting with Peter will threaten to derail everything.
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Title: Frontier
Character: Father James Coffin
Released: November 6, 2016
Type: TV
The chaotic and violent struggle to control wealth and power in the North American fur trade in late 18th century Canada. Told from multiple perspectives, Frontier takes place in a world where business negotiations might be resolved with close-quarter hatchet fights, and where delicate relations between native tribes and Europeans can spark bloody conflicts.
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ChickLit
Title: ChickLit
Character: David Rose
Released: September 2, 2016
Type: Movie
ChickLit is a comedy drama about four guys trying to save their local pub from closing down. They group write a chick lit, or more specifically a 'mummy porn' novel in the style of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and it gets snapped up. The only snag is that the publisher insists that the young woman 'author' does press and publicity. The guys have to keep their involvement a secret and so engage an out of work actress to 'role play' the part of the author. This leads to her becoming the star in the film of the book, the tables are turned on the guys and she is in control - leaving them with the awful prospect of having to secretly churn out sex novels for the foreseeable future.
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Florence Foster Jenkins
Title: Florence Foster Jenkins
Character: Earl Wilson
Released: May 6, 2016
Type: Movie
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
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The Young Messiah
Title: The Young Messiah
Character: Cleopas
Released: March 10, 2016
Type: Movie
Tells the story of Jesus Christ at age seven as he and his family depart Egypt to return home to Nazareth. Told from his childhood perspective, it follows young Jesus as he grows into his religious identity.
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Churchill's Secret
Title: Churchill's Secret
Character: Christopher Soames
Released: February 29, 2016
Type: Movie
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.
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Title: Jekyll and Hyde
Character: Maxwell Utterson
Released: October 25, 2015
Type: TV
Inspired by the original novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, Jekyll and Hyde is set in 1930s London and follows Robert Jekyll, the grandson of Henry Jekyll, on his quest to discover his real identity, his true family history and the nature of his ‘curse’ – which his foster father, Dr Vishal Najaran, is controlling with medication. His journey takes him into a dark and unforgiving place, as his alter ego seems capable of anything. At the same time there are shadowy forces trying to find Jekyll and the source of his powers.
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Draw on Sweet Night
Title: Draw on Sweet Night
Character: George Kirbye
Released: September 7, 2015
Type: Movie
Composer John Wilbye spent his entire working life in the employ of Sir and Lady Kytson at Hengrave Hall in Suffolk. Unusually, after his second book of Madrigals was published in 1609 it appears he did not compose again despite being kept on at the house by Lady Kytson until her death in 1628. Draw On Sweet Night examines this mystery in a sumptuous costume drama, produced in collaboration with renowned vocal group I Fagiolini.
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Creditors
Title: Creditors
Character: Grant Pierce
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
A love triangle is unraveled when a young painter is approached by an admirer who eases him into making sense of his relationship with his wife.
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The Theory of Everything
Title: The Theory of Everything
Character: Roger Penrose
Released: November 26, 2014
Type: Movie
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
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The Last Sparks of Sundown
Title: The Last Sparks of Sundown
Character: Rupert Sword
Released: October 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Two down-on-their-luck American brothers travel to England to sell their late grandfather's country estate. A straightforward plan if it weren't for the strangers in the house and the sinister man on their tail.
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Northern Soul
Title: Northern Soul
Character: John's Dad
Released: October 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Set in 1974, an authentic and uplifting tale of two friends whose horizons are opened up by the discovery of black American soul music.
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Serena
Title: Serena
Character: Banker in Boston
Released: October 12, 2014
Type: Movie
North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man’s life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers George’s hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton’s passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning.
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Closer to the Moon
Title: Closer to the Moon
Character: Iorgu Ristea
Released: March 7, 2014
Type: Movie
A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.
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Legacy
Title: Legacy
Character: Hugo March
Released: November 28, 2013
Type: Movie
A KGB plot to attack the UK has plunged Britain into a state of emergency. Charles, a young MI6 spy, is asked to revive an old friendship with Russian diplomat Viktor. But Viktor has his own agenda.
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Rush
Title: Rush
Character: Lord Hesketh
Released: September 2, 2013
Type: Movie
In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.
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Here Lies
Title: Here Lies
Character: Tristan Holy-Route
Released: March 31, 2013
Type: Movie
HERE LIES is a film about filmmaking and the struggles involved in the creative process: artistic, technical, financial and personal.
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The Devil's Violinist
Title: The Devil's Violinist
Character: John Watson
Released: January 30, 2013
Type: Movie
The life story of Italian violinist and composer, Niccolò Paganini, who rose to fame as a virtuoso in the early 19th Century.
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I Melt with You
Title: I Melt with You
Character: Tim
Released: December 9, 2011
Type: Movie
Former college friends meet up for a reunion that leads them to face the apparent disillusionment that defines their lives. After a week of excessive drug and alcohol abuse, events lead them to contemplate fulfilling a self destructive pact they made when they were young.
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Title: Borgia
Character: Cardinal Sforza
Released: October 10, 2011
Type: TV
The name Borgia stands for betrayal, intrigue and corruption in the Vatican, which was the center of the world during the Renaissance.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Title: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Character: Mackelvore
Released: September 16, 2011
Type: Movie
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
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Astonish Me
Title: Astonish Me
Character: The Museum Guard
Released: July 26, 2011
Type: Movie
When a young boy gets locked in the Natural History Museum after closing, a mysterious guard gives him a magical ticket that allows him to visit a restricted area of the museum, where a professor and a guide show him examples of the wondrous new species of animals being discovered every day on Earth.
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Mr. Nice
Title: Mr. Nice
Character: Hamilton McMillan
Released: October 7, 2010
Type: Movie
Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Title: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Character: Poker Friend
Released: September 22, 2010
Type: Movie
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married.
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The Road to Coronation Street
Title: The Road to Coronation Street
Character: Harry Elton
Released: September 15, 2010
Type: Movie
The story of how 22 year old writer Tony Warren conceived, wrote and fought for the record breaking UK TV series Coronation Street.
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Margaret
Title: Margaret
Character: John Whittingdale
Released: March 26, 2009
Type: Movie
A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.
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Vivaldi, the Red Priest
Title: Vivaldi, the Red Priest
Character: Estienne Roger
Released: March 9, 2009
Type: Movie
The life of Antonio Vivaldi, called "the red priest", his relationship with the world and the Church, his spiritual battles, his love for a woman.
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A Short Stay in Switzerland
Title: A Short Stay in Switzerland
Character: Carsten
Released: January 25, 2009
Type: Movie
Just after losing her husband to a similar condition, Dr Anne Turner is diagnosed with a fatal neurological condition. So she plans to end her life herself. Based on a true story.
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Me and Orson Welles
Title: Me and Orson Welles
Character: Orson Welles
Released: September 5, 2008
Type: Movie
New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.
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Abraham's Point
Title: Abraham's Point
Character: Robert
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A man struggles to get over a family tragedy that has haunted him since childhood.
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Riot at the Rite
Title: Riot at the Rite
Character: Pierre Monteux
Released: October 18, 2005
Type: Movie
In the spring of 1913, Parisian businessman Gabriel Astruc opens a new theater on the Champs Elysées. The first performance is the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring', danced by the Ballet Russes. The rehearsal process is extremely fraught: the orchestra dislike Stravinsky's harsh, atonal music; the dancers dislike the 'ugly' choreography of Vaslav Nijinsky. The volatile, bisexual Nijinsky is in a strained relationship with the much older Sergei Diaghilev, the Ballet Russes' charismatic but manipulative impresario. Public expectation is extremely high after Nijinsky's success in 'L'apres-midi d'un faune'. Finally, 'The Rite of Spring' premieres to a gossip-loving, febrile, fashion-conscious Parisian audience sharply divided as to its merits.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Jefferson Cope
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.