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Don McKellar

Don McKellar

Actor · Born 1963-08-17 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Don McKellar CM (born August 17, 1963) is a Canadian actor, writer, playwright, and filmmaker. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave. He is known for directing and writing the film Last Night, which won the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, as well as his screenplays for films such as Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, The Red Violin, and Blindness. McKellar frequently acts in his own projects, and has also appeared in Atom Egoyan's Exotica and David Cronenberg's eXistenZ and Crimes of the Future. He is also known for being a fixture on Canadian television, with series including Twitch City, Odd Job Jack, and Slings & Arrows, as well as writing the book for the popular Tony Award-winning musical The Drowsy Chaperone. He is an eight-time nominee and two-time Genie Award winner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Don McKellar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) — Director
  2. eXistenZ (1999) — Yevgeny Nourish
  3. Blindness (2008) — Thief
  4. Crimes of the Future (2022) — Wippet
  5. The Red Violin (1998) — Evan Williams (Montréal)
  6. Exotica (1994) — Thomas
  7. Where the Truth Lies (2005) — Publishing Executive
  8. Redacted (2007) — Criminal Investigator (voice)
  9. Last Night (1998) — Patrick Wheeler
  10. Target Number One (2020) — Norm
  11. Zoom (2016) — Horowitz
  12. Degrassi (2001) — Keith
  13. When Night Is Falling (1995) — Timothy
  14. The Adjuster (1991) — Tyler, the young censor
  15. The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw (2020) — Bernard Buckley
  16. Clean (2004) — Vernon
  17. The Middle Man (2021) — Doctor
  18. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) — Concert Promoter
  19. Republic of Doyle (2010) — J.J. Murphy
  20. Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent (2024) — Les Cake
  21. Through Black Spruce (2019) — Journalist
  22. Leslie, My Name Is Evil (2009) — Prosecutor
  23. Waydowntown (2002) — Brad
  24. Slings & Arrows (2003) — Darren Nichols
  25. Trigger (2010) — Brian
  26. Camilla (1994) — Security Guard
  27. Highway 61 (1991) — Pokey Jones
  28. Vinyl (2000) — Himself
  29. Meditation Park (2017) — Gabriel
  30. Treading Water (2013) — Richard
  31. Blood Honey (2017) — Dr. Bert Morrison
  32. Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming (2017) — Dietmar (voice)
  33. The Event (2003) — Matt Shapiro
  34. American Woman (2019) — Newscaster 1 (voice)
  35. Roadkill (1989) — Russel, the Serial Killer
  36. The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999) — Alfred
  37. Rub & Tug (2002) — Conrad
  38. Childstar (2004) — Rick Shille
  39. Three Days in Havana (2014) — Pepe
  40. Cooking With Stella (2010) — Michael Laffont

Directed

  1. The Grand Seduction (2014) — Director
  2. Last Night (1998) — Director
  3. Through Black Spruce (2019) — Director
  4. Childstar (2004) — Director
  5. Blue (1992) — Director
  6. Elimination Dance (1998) — Director
  7. A Word from the Management (2000) — Director
  8. Preludes (2000) — Director
  9. Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriends: Istanbul (2007) — Director
  10. Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriends: Ankara (2007) — Director
  11. It's Not You (2015) — Director