Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
August 17, 1963
Place of Birth:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Don McKellar
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.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Occupant of the Room | |
| 2025 | Nash the Slash Rises Again! | Self - Russell the Serial Killer/Self - Pokey Jones(archive footage) |
| 2022 | Crimes of the Future | Wippet |
| 2021 | The Middle Man | Doctor |
| 2020 | The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw | Bernard Buckley |
| 2020 | Target Number One | Norm |
| 2019 | Through Black Spruce | Journalist |
| 2019 | American Woman | Newscaster 1 (voice) |
| 2017 | Waiting for Ishtar | Self |
| 2017 | Window Horses | Dietmar (voice) |
| 2017 | Lolz-ita | Eric |
| 2017 | Meditation Park | Gabriel |
| 2017 | Blood Honey | Dr. Bert Morrison |
| 2016 | Zoom | Horowitz |
| 2016 | Your Mother and I | Father |
| 2014 | Three Days in Havana | Pepe |
| 2013 | Treading Water | Richard |
| 2013 | Subconscious Password | The Host (voice) |
| 2012 | I'm Yours | Phil |
| 2010 | Cooking With Stella | Michael Laffont |
| 2010 | Trigger | Brian |
| 2010 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Director |
| 2009 | Leslie, My Name Is Evil | Prosecutor |
| 2008 | Blindness | Thief |
| 2008 | Green Door | Ron |
| 2007 | Redacted | Criminal Investigator (voice) |
| 2006 | Monkey Warfare | Dan |
| 2005 | Where the Truth Lies | Publishing Executive |
| 2004 | Childstar | Rick Shille |
| 2004 | Clean | Vernon |
| 2004 | Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche | Self / Pokey Jones / Patrick Wheeler / Matt Shapiro / Brad |
| 2003 | The Event | Matt Shapiro |
| 2003 | Public Domain | Host |
| 2002 | Waydowntown | Brad |
| 2002 | Rub & Tug | Conrad |
| 2002 | Trudeau | Greenbaum |
| 2001 | I Was a Rat | Oliver Tapscrew |
| 2001 | The Art of Woo | Nathan |
| 2000 | Vinyl | Himself |
| 2000 | This Might Be Good | |
| 1999 | eXistenZ | Yevgeny Nourish |
| 1999 | The Passion of Ayn Rand | Alfred |
| 1999 | Sea People | Mr. Whittaker |
| 1998 | The Red Violin | Evan Williams (Montréal) |
| 1998 | Last Night | Patrick Wheeler |
| 1998 | Elimination Dance | Male Dance Partner |
| 1997 | Joe's So Mean to Josephine | Mike |
| 1997 | Sarabande | Max |
| 1997 | In the Presence of Mine Enemies | Paul Heller |
| 1996 | Never Met Picasso | Jerry |
| 1995 | When Night Is Falling | Timothy |
| 1994 | Exotica | Thomas |
| 1994 | Camilla | Security Guard |
| 1994 | Arrowhead | Ray Bud |
| 1993 | Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould | Concert Promoter |
| 1992 | Giant Steps | Real Estate Hucker |
| 1992 | My Niagara | Cabel |
| 1991 | Highway 61 | Pokey Jones |
| 1991 | The Adjuster | Tyler, the young censor |
| 1989 | Roadkill | Russel, the Serial Killer |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Hey Lady! | Dr. Wolfe |
| 2014 | Sensitive Skin | Al |
| 2010 | Republic of Doyle | J.J. Murphy |
| 2006 | Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story | Clarence Fines |
| 2003 | Odd Job Jack | Jack Ryder (voice) |
| 2003 | Slings & Arrows | Darren Nichols |
| 2001 | Degrassi | Keith |
| 1998 | Twitch City | Curtis |
| 1996 | Once a Thief |