My Take
Mackenzie Davis is one of those actors I genuinely root for, because she has this rare quality of making intelligence look effortlessly cool. Her turn as Cameron Howe in Halt and Catch Fire is quietly one of the best performances in prestige TV of the 2010s — a brilliant, chaotic, deeply human woman navigating the early personal computing world, and Davis made every scene feel lived-in. Then there's "San Junipero" in Black Mirror, where she broke hearts with a performance so tender it still lingers. Terminator: Dark Fate showed she could anchor a blockbuster too, playing a soldier from the future with real physicality and soul. She picks projects with taste, studied at McGill, and somehow stays out of the celebrity noise machine entirely. Exactly the kind of actor the industry needs more of.
Overview
Mackenzie Rio Davis (born April 1, 1987) is a Canadian actress. She made her feature film debut in the drama film Smashed (2012). In 2013, she appeared in the film The F Word, for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. From 2014 to 2017, she starred as computer programmer Cameron Howe in the AMC period drama series Halt and Catch Fire.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Mackenzie Davis
- Name (Japanese)
- マッケンジー・デイヴィス
- Reading
- まっけんじー・でいゔぃす
- Born
- April 1, 1987 (age 39)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Rabbit
- Origin
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 2 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / film actor / television actor / film producer / model
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- McGill University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.