Dr. RODNEY MCKAY
Played by: David Hewlett
First episode: SG-1 - 48 Hours
He is a self-described genius who was introduced in the Stargate SG-1 episode "48 Hours".
McKay ( Meredith Rodney McKay) is a Canadian, although he works for the United States Air Force as an expert on astrophysics, naqahdah, Ancient technology and the Stargate system.
Stargate SG-1:
At the Area 51 facility, which is within the domain of Nellis Air Force Base, McKay became one of the premier experts on the Stargate outside of the Stargate Command. During this time, he discovered that Samantha Carter's dialing program ignored 220 of 400 signals given by the Stargate during a dialing sequence. It was also his assessment that the energy that stored Teal'c's pattern would have already succumbed to entropy in a 48 hour time period, hence the "deadline".
Stargate SGA:
As the smartest scientist on Earth (at least in his estimation), Dr. McKay leads the scientific team on Atlantis. McKay does not consider medical science to be a true science, once comparing it with voodoo:)
McKay is a member of Mensa, and he mentioned the existence of an (unofficial) Mensa chapter on Atlantis.
McKay was born without the ATA gene (a lack which bothered him a lot), and volunteered to be the first human trial for Dr. Beckett's gene therapy. It was a success and now he has an artificial ATA gene of his own. The first thing he used it with was an invulnerability shield device they had found in a lab. He tested it by letting Major Sheppard shoot him in the leg and throw him off a balcony. Unfortunately, he discovered that he couldn't remove it?and could neither eat nor drink through it, creating the very real possibility that he would die from dehydration.
While testing the new "gate bridge" that he and Carter devised, live Ancients were found, who reclaimed Atlantis and asked the expedition to leave, allowing General Jack O'Neill and Richard Woolsey to remain as liaisons. McKay was reassigned to Area 51, but upon learning that the Asurans had taken Atlantis, McKay joined Sheppard, Weir, and Beckett in hijacking a puddle jumper, and picking up Ronon and Teyla on the way, succeeded in retaking the city.
In the episode McKay and Mrs. Miller, an alternate Rodney McKay transported himself to our universe via matter bridge created by a resurrected Project Arcturus. Unlike the normal McKay, this alternate McKay is far more outgoing and social, able to quickly befriend most of the Atlantis staff; he says that the staff in his universe calls him "Rod". He tells Atlantis that he was sent to warn them that the resurrected Project Arcturus was slowly destroying his universe. Once the Atlantis team agrees to close the matter bridge and shut down the project, he beams himself back to his own universe. It is unknown whether he survived the journey or not, though the normal universe Rodney held the bridge together a few extra seconds to give him a very good chance of surviving. Doing this, however, caused their ZPM to be completely depleted.
Biography of David Hewlett
David Hewlett was born at April 18, 1968 is an English-born Canadian actor and an Internet entrepreneur. He has two sisters. Moyra, worked with him as an Art Director in Hewlett's internet company Darkyl New Media. Kate Hewlett played Jeannie Miller, McKay's sister, in the Stargate Atlantis season 3 episode "McKay and Mrs. Miller".
Filmography
David Hewlett
A Dog's Breakfast (2006) as Patrick
Darklight (2004) as Anders Raeborne
Ice Men (2004) as Bryan
Stargate Atlantis (2004) as Dr. Rodney McKay
Boa vs. Python (2004) as Dr. Steven Emmett
From Stargate to Atlantis: Sci Fi Lowdown (2004) as Himself/Rodney McKay
Preview to Atlantis (2004) as Himself/Rodney McKay
Friday Night (2003) as Roger
Foolproof (2003) as Lawrence Yeager
Nothing (2003)
Cypher (2002) as Dunn
Made In Canada, Volume 1: Best of the CFC (2002) as Himself
Treed Murray (aka Get Down) (2001) as Murray
Century Hotel (2001) as Michael
The Triangle (2001) as Gus Gruber
And Never Let Her Go (2001) as Gerry Capano
Chasing Cain (2001) as Bud
Amateur Night (1999) as D.J.
Autoerotica (1999) as Gord
Blind (1999) as The Victim
The Life Before This (1999) as Nick
Survivor (1999) as Le m
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