Ross Mackenzie was born in Washington,D.C.. Mr. Mackenzie was raised in Middleburg,Virginia, a small town fifty miles west; famous for fox hunting and horses; also at that time J. F. K. 's weekend retreat.

Ross's introduction to acting came in 1966 when he saw Olivier's Hamlet (made in 1948).
Ross decided to form a drama club in his prep school.

While attending university, Ross decided that learning acting as a career move was futile at college, therefore he dropped out and went to New York City to study with Stanislavsky's famous student Sonia Moore. Under the tutelage of Sonia Moore and her daughter Irene, Ross learned how important a physical action was on stage. His teacher was retiring and recommended that Ross study in London where he could receive a full training for the stage. In London, he studied for two years at the famed Guild Hall School and Actor's Forum.

Mr. Mackenzie's professional career started at the Tony Award winning Hartford Stage Company under the direction of Mark Lamos. Ross appeared in "Cymbeline" and "Anthony and Cleopatra."

New York City was the next move for Ross; there he spent eleven years auditioning and playing in off Broadway and off off Broadway theaters, also it was in his tenth year that he started teaching acting and diction for the famed Lee Strasberg Institute and The Puerto Rican Traveling Theater Company under the artistic direction of the famous Spanish actress, Miriam Colon.

1991 was an important year for Ross. He listened to his intuition and moved from the Big Apple to Kobe, Japan, where he knew no one nor spoke the language. His first job was teaching Kundalini yoga. Teaching yoga became too easy going, Ross wanted to act. One of his students told him there would be no way. However. the word "impossible" doesn't exist in Mackenzie's dictionary. He decided to act in English and Japanese simultaneously. Ross directed his first bilingual play "Macbeth" and played the lead role. Trying to learn his cue lines so well in Japanese was a good way of learning the language and being in the moment on stage. Ross and several Japanese friends came up with the name, Fusion, later Global Fusion, performing seven plays in over ten years of coming and going from Los Angles to the Kansai area. At the same time Ross taught acting at Theater of the Arts, Stella Adler Academy in Hollywood, and Soei, Broadway Musical Theater Company in Osaka, and Film Center Tokyo.

1998 brought Ross his first film role in "Pride," shot at Uzumasa Studios in Kyoto, Scott Wilson, Tsugawa Masahiko and Ishida Ayumi starred. The director Ito Shunya became Ross's Japanese uncle. Later in1999 another big decision came into Ross's life. While casting "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Ross met Shika, who later became his wife.

Currently he resides in Reseda,CA, where he and his wife teach acting and audition for acting work. Days pass slowly as Shika and Ross wait for their new acting DVD to be edited and released under the title; "Acting a Way of Life"--shot in late March 2008--the DVD gives the viewer a sample class of Shika and Ross Mackenzie.