Biography
At the end of January 2019, at the American Festival of Independent Cinema Sundance Film Festival, the premiere of the film "Dressing Report" director of Scott Burns, based on real events, took place. In the center of the plot - the investigation into Daniel Jones of the CIA interrogation programs detained on suspicion of the September 11 terrorist attack. In addition to Adam Driver, who played the main character, the picture involved and Jennifer Morrison ("Dr. House"), and Ted Levin ("Silence of Lambs"), and Ben Mackenzie ("Gotham").Childhood and youth
In the middle of the first autumn month of 1978, September 12, Peter Forers and Mary Francis Shenkkan, who lived in the capital of Texas, was born firstborn Benjamin McKenzie. Subsequently, two more sons appeared in the family, Note and Zak. The father worked by a lawyer, the mother did progress in the renovation, Uncle Robert was a playwright and even received a Pulitzer Prize for the "Cycle Kentucky".
Embed from getty imagesFirst, the boy gnawing the granite of science in St. Andrew's Episcopal School, then in Stephen F. Austin High School, where a football in the sphere of interests is invariably hit. At the end of the school, a graduate for the example of his father and grandfather - Professor University of Texas in Austin became a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA student. After graduating university, the guy moved to New York three weeks before the tragedy of September 11th.
Personal life
Shooting in "Goteme" not only strengthened the fame of Ben, but also allowed to arrange their personal life. In March 2015, he had an affair with a counterpart of Moraine Bakkarin, then there was still more married for Austin Chikik.Embed from getty imagesFor divorce, the spouses filed in June, and in September the actress stated that it was ready to accept the proposal of the hands and hearts of the new lover, adding that they would soon have a child. March 2, 2016, a pair was born daughter Francis Liz, and on June 2, 2017 a wedding took place. In March 2021, the actor told that he became his father for the second time - the spouse gave him the son of Arthur.
In their favorite women and son, the actor's actor does not make up, regularly rolling the account in "Instagram" by their photos. There are also star snapshots in tight T-shirts, emphasizing sports torso and embossed muscles (height 173 cm with weight 76 kg).
Films
In a new place, the young man got a part-time job as a waiter, played off-Broadway, and then moved to Los Angeles, where he starred in the episodes of the Eastern Park ("District of Columbia"), "Military Legal Service" and "Mad television."
Soon, "single hearts" appeared in the filmography, overnight turned the artist to the celebrity, here Ben appeared in the form of a teenager Ryan Etvud. By the way, the creators of the multi-stage drama changed more than once that this role is one of the most complex.
"I have always been loner and remain them now. So in this sense, my character Ryan with my character. I played football in Texas, but did not communicate with athletes. I studied at the university, not particularly contacting classmates. I had a company with which I sometimes depended, but I always remained by myself, "the actor confessed in an interview.In parallel with the filming in the TV series, Benjamin starred in the full-length "June beetle" Phil Morrison. By the way, in order for the artist to be confused with a colleague Ben Schaynkman - a nominee on Emmy and Golden Globe for participating in "Angels in America", he decided to use his second name as a stage pseudonym - Maiden's named Grandma's name.
In the future, the creative biography was replenished with "decoding Annie Parker", "Soutland" and "Farewell, Peace". Since 2014, Mackenzie starred in the superhero militant "Gotham", the final of which took place in April 2019.
Ben Mackenzie now
After the completion of "Gotama", the performer of one of the main roles was not left without work, but lit up in the "report on torture" already mentioned "report on the debt".Filmography
- 2002 - "East Park" ("District of Columbia")
- 2003 - "Military Legal Service"
- 2003-2007 - "Lonely Hearts"
- 2004 - "Mad Television"
- 2005 - "June Beetle"
- 2007 - "88 minutes"
- 2008 - "Johnny took a gun"
- 2009-2013 - Soutland
- 2013 - "Decoding Annie Parker"
- 2013 - "Men in the case"
- 2013 - "Farewell, World"
- 2014 - "How to make love in English"
- 2014-2019 - "Gotham"
- 2019 - "Report on torture"
- 2019 - "Debt Service"