• Faith: Unknown
• Career: Actress
• Birthday:  April 01, 1987

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Mackenzie Rio Davis to parents known as successful beauty salon owners and creators of the largest independent manufacturer of professional hair products, AG Hair Care. Davis' life took a different path when she found her theatrical passion at Collingwood School in West Vancouver in 2005.

Her love of Shakespeare kept her at the Canadian festival Bard on the Beach and another staple in Canadian theater, Art's Club Granville Island Stage. Some of her earliest memories involve watching Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol." It was watching those performances as a child that inspired her in school. From there, she went straight to McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and studied at the esteemed Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City in 2010.

She said in a Vancouver Sun article about the classic theatrical Meisner training she received in university. "The Meisner tagline is: The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the greatest actor you could ever be. That really struck me at a young age. Other actors are truly transformative character actors. I don't think that's my skill as much. It's something I'm developing."

A year later, she landed her first feature film, "Smashed," where she starred with Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul of "Breaking Bad" fame. From 2014 to 2017, she played in Prime Video's "Halt and Catch Fire". Then, Davis officially "arrived" in 2015, when she co-starred in the Oscar-nominated film "The Martian" with Matt Damon.

Her passion paid off, but she doesn't focus on blockbusters–she acts for the love of the craft. She said in the past, "I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to do it and work with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways."

After earning two Emmy Awards in Netflix's acclaimed sci-fi series "Black Mirror" in 2016, followed by being cast as Mariette in 2017, opposite Ryan Gosling in Denis Villeneuve's "Blade Runner 2049." Following a lackluster indie film directed by Jason Reitman called "Tully," Davis was cast in a starring role in the sixth film of the "Terminator" franchise as Grace, a powerful humanoid who helps Sarah Connor defeat a new iteration of the cyborg Rev-9 (Diego Luna).

Her range continues to be her calling card, as seen in 2020 with a supernatural Gothic tale called "The Turning," taken from the 1898 book "The Turn of the Screw." Most recently, Davis has been seen in the praised TV miniseries "Station Eleven" and the suspense thriller "Speak No Evil" with James McAvoy.

Mackenzie Davis' Religious Beliefs

Based on previous interviews, social media, acting, or private life, there isn't anything connecting Davis to a faith in Jesus or a belief in God. It seems more people are fascinated by her love life than her spiritual life.

One of the most stubborn rumors about Mackenzie Davis is that she is part of the LGBTQ community. She identifies as straight, although she has excelled in several LGBTQ roles, such as Yorkie in the episode in "Black Mirror" and as Harper in the Hulu original film "Happiest Season." Even Grace in "Terminator: Dark Fate" was considered to be presented as a gay woman, although that wasn't specified.

A 2020 interview in The Cut speaks to this consistent allegation. Davis explains that, for her, it was never explicitly about representing queer women. "It always felt like representing women in a way that I wanted to be represented or identified with," she says, "and I felt proud of the versions of women I was putting out into the world. I always felt like I didn't understand, when I was younger, the secret combination that made you desirable to men."