Don McKellar

Birthday: 1963-08-17
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
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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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Credits

Year Title Character
2025-10-24 The Occupant of the Room
2022-05-25 Crimes of the Future Wippet
2021-09-17 The Middle Man Doctor
2020-09-30 The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw Bernard Buckley
2020-07-10 Target Number One Norm
2019-09-12 American Woman Newscaster 1 (voice)
2019-03-29 Through Black Spruce Journalist
2017-09-08 Meditation Park Gabriel
2017-09-01 Blood Honey Dr. Bert Morrison
2017-08-30 Lolz-ita Eric
2017-03-10 Window Horses Dietmar (voice)
2016-09-14 Your Mother and I Father
2016-03-31 Zoom Horowitz
2014-03-28 Three Days in Havana Pepe
2013-09-13 Treading Water Richard
2013-06-10 Subconscious Password The Host (voice)
2012-04-20 I'm Yours Phil
2010-09-12 Trigger Brian
2010-08-12 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Director
2010-03-19 Cooking With Stella Michael Laffont
2009-09-14 Leslie, My Name Is Evil Prosecutor
2008-09-07 Green Door Ron
2008-05-14 Blindness Thief
2007-11-16 Redacted Criminal Investigator (voice)
2006-09-10 Monkey Warfare Dan
2005-10-07 Where the Truth Lies Publishing Executive
2004-09-10 Childstar Rick Shille
2004-09-01 Clean Vernon
2003-01-01 The Event Matt Shapiro
2003-01-01 Public Domain Host
2002-09-10 Rub & Tug Conrad
2002-03-31 Trudeau Greenbaum
2002-01-25 Waydowntown Brad
2001-12-09 I Was a Rat Oliver Tapscrew
2001-09-09 The Art of Woo Nathan
2000-09-07 This Might Be Good
1999-06-21 Sea People Mr. Whittaker
1999-04-14 eXistenZ Yevgeny Nourish
1999-01-27 The Passion of Ayn Rand Alfred
1998-11-13 The Red Violin Evan Williams (Montréal)
1998-10-23 Last Night Patrick Wheeler
1998-09-12 Elimination Dance Male Dance Partner
1997-11-28 Never Met Picasso Jerry
1997-10-24 Sarabande Max
1997-04-20 In the Presence of Mine Enemies Paul Heller
1997-01-18 Joe's So Mean to Josephine Mike
1995-02-01 When Night Is Falling Timothy
1994-11-25 Camilla Security Guard
1994-09-29 Exotica Thomas
1994-01-01 Arrowhead Ray Bud
1993-11-26 Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould Concert Promoter
1992-09-12 Giant Steps Real Estate Hucker
1992-09-12 My Niagara Cabel
1991-11-27 The Adjuster Tyler, the young censor
1991-09-05 Highway 61 Pokey Jones
1989-09-16 Roadkill Russel, the Serial Killer