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









