Elliot McKee began his acting career in his native New Zealand, where he had supporting roles in the TV productions "Piece of My Heart" (2009) and "Bliss" (2011) and was a regular cast member of the TV show "Go Girls" (2009-2011). In 2011, he and friend Chloë Lewer relocated to Berlin and founded the independent folk band "Charity Children", which released its debut album in 2013. The same year, director Stephan Geene cast McKee as the male lead for his experimental feature film "umsonst" ("for nothing"), which premiered in the Forum Expanded section of the 2014 Berlin IFF and was released theatrically in summer 2014.