Kevin McNally

Personal context

Summary

Kevin McNally is an English actor and writer whose stage, film and television work includes I, Claudius, Poldark and the Pirates of the Caribbean films. He has played a wide range of character roles, including King Lear at Shakespeare’s Globe. In 2017, he publicly criticized Donald Trump, comparing him to Lear and warning that an ill-educated society could produce fascism. In a later interview, he criticized identity politics, critical race theory and implicit-bias training, and described his former involvement in a Trotskyist group.