Tom McKay (born 27 December 1979) is a British actor. He is known for his role as Henry of Skalitz in Warhorse Studios’s medieval RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, for which he’s received nominations, including a Golden Joystick Awards Nomination for Best Performer and is currently nominated for a BAFTA Game Award for Best Lead Performance.[1][2]
He is also known for his roles in The White Queen, Senna, Hatfields & McCoys, The Suspect, and more recently his portrayal of Mark Preen in the Channel 4 docudrama Dirty Business.
Career
In 2005, McKay played the role of Piers as part of an ensemble cast in Chromophobia, starring Ralph Fiennes and directed by Fiennes' sister, Martha. In the same year he appeared in Imagine Me & You, and in the docudrama I Shouldn't Be Alive for one episode where he played Jim, a young parent trapped in a blizzard with a five month old child.[5]
Since 2006 he has appeared in many long running British TV shows, including the likes of Casualty, Silent Witness, Doctors, Waterloo Road, Spooks, New Tricks, and Endeavour.[6] In 2007 he appeared in the British feature film The Feral Generation directed by Andrew Jones. In 2009 he featured in an episode of TV show Primeval, and in the third installation of the Wrong Turn Franchise, Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead.
In 2012 he played Jim McCoy in Hatfields & MCoys, an American TV mini series about the Hatfield-McCoy feud. In 2013 McKay adopted the role of Jasper Tudor in the highly regarded historical drama series The White Queen. The show was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and a People's Choice Award.[7][8][9]
In 2016, McKay got the role to play Henry of Skalitz in the kickstarter funded video game Kingdom Come: Deliverance, set in 15th Century Bohemia. The voice and motion capture role took two years to complete before the game's release in 2018.[10] [11]
In 2020 he appeared in the TV show Devils, and reprised the role of Chris Bailey in 2022 for the second season. In 2022 he appeared as Max K in the British thriller series The Undeclared War, and will return in the second season.[12]
Also in 2022 McKay played the role of DJ in ITV's The Suspect starring Aidan Turner, based on the book of the same name by Michael Robertham. In 2024 he featured in the Brazilian biographical drama miniseries based on the life of racing driver Ayrton Senna. He played the role of Alex Hawkridge, Senna's team boss at Toleman.
In 2025, the sequel Kingdom Come: Deliverance II was released, which saw McKay reprise his role as Henry of Skalitz. He recorded 508 hours of dialogue for the role across 127 sessions.[13] He received a Golden Joystick Awards Nomination for Best Performer and is currently nominated for a BAFTA Game Award for Best Lead Performance.[1][2]
In his most recent role, McKay plays the role of Mark Preen in the Channel 4 docudrama Dirty Business. The series covers a decade-long investigation on sewage-contaminated water in Oxfordshire.[14] In 1999 the Preen family lost their eight year old daughter due to E-coli poisoning. [15] Following the release of the show campaign group Surfers Against Sewage have launched a new petition to put pressure on the government to put public health above profit.[16]
Over the years McKay has been in numerous theatre performances, including many Shakespeare adaptations. Notably he played the role of Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, which was performed at the Shakespeare's Globe in 2014. Other roles include the Duke of Gloucester and the Lord Scrope of Masham in Henry V at the National Theatre, various roles in The Great Game: Afghanistan, Jim Reston in Frost/Nixon at the Donmar Warehouse, and more recently Arnholm in Ibsen's The Lady From the Sea at the Donmar Warehouse, and Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing.[17][18][19][3]
Acting Credits
Film
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Television
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| Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
| 2005 |
I Shouldn't Be Alive |
Jim |
Season 1 Episode 2 "Lost In The Snow" |
| 2006 |
Casualty |
Alan Curren |
Season 20 Episode 42 "Needle" |
| 2007 |
Silent Witness |
DS Jimmy Case |
Season 11 Episode 3 "Suffer the Children: Part 1"
Season 11 Episode 4 "Suffer the Children: Part 2" |
| 2008 |
Casualty |
Mike |
Season 23 Episode 9 "The Line of Fire" |
| 2009 |
Doctors |
Frankie Mellors |
Season 10 Episode 215 "Cows" |
| 2009 |
Primeval |
Joe |
Season 3 Episode 9 "Herd Logic" |
| 2010 |
Waterloo Road |
Mark Moran |
Season 5 Episode 12 "#5.12" |
| 2010 |
Spooks |
Saul De Vries |
Season 9 Episode 2 "#9.2" |
| 2010 |
New Tricks |
Jason Bishop |
Season 7 Episode 5 "Good Morning Lemmings" |
| 2010 |
The Little House |
Ruth's Father |
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| 2012 |
Hatfields & McCoys |
Jim McCoy |
TV Mini Series |
| 2013 |
The White Queen |
Jasper Tudor |
Season 1 Episodes 2-5, 6 (Voice Only), 8-10 |
| 2014 |
The Transporter: The Series |
Jeremy Donne |
Season 2 Episode 7 "Sex, Lies and Videotape" |
| 2015 |
The Bastard Executioner |
Gruffud's Aide/Rhys |
Season 1 Episode 6 "Thorns/Drain"
Season1 Episode 10 "Blood and Quiescence/Crau a Chwsg" |
| 2016 |
Endeavour |
Cole Matthews |
Season 3 Episode 4 "Coda" |
| 2020-2022 |
Devils |
Chris Bailey |
Main Cast |
| 2020 |
Moving On |
Joe Kelly |
Season 11 Episode 1 "Time Out" |
| 2022-present |
The Undeclared War |
Max K |
Season 1 Episodes 1-5
Season 2 TBA |
| 2022 |
The Suspect |
DJ |
Season 1 Episodes 2-5 |
| 2023 |
Black Cake |
Bossman |
Season 1 Episode 3 "Eleanor" |
| 2024 |
Ellis |
Eric Mercer |
Season 1 Episode 1 "Hanmore" |
| 2024 |
Senna |
Alex Hawkridge |
Season 1 Episode 2 "Belonging"
Season 1 Episode 3 "Ambition" |
| 2026 |
Dirty Business |
Mark Preen |
Episodes 1-2 |
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Video Games
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Title |
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| 2003 |
Britain's Finest |
Self |
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| 2006 |
The Sunday Programme |
Henry V |
TV Series |
| 2006 |
The Play's The Thing |
Self |
TV Series |
| 2015 |
Supreme Tweeter |
Self |
YouTube Series |
| 2026 |
Oaths & Empires |
Solus |
Podcast |
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