Don McKellar

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1963-08-17

Place of Birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Don McKellar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Acting History

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