Portrait of Don McKellar

Don McKellar

Acting

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.

Born: August 17, 1963

Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Filmography

2021
2020
2020
Hey Lady!

as Dr. Wolfe

2019
American Woman

as Newscaster 1 (voice)

2019
2017
Meditation Park

as Gabriel

2017
Blood Honey

as Dr. Bert Morrison

2017
Lolz-ita

as Eric

2017
Window Horses

as Dietmar (voice)

2016
2016
Zoom

as Horowitz

2013
Treading Water

as Richard

2013
Subconscious Password

as The Host (voice)

2012
I'm Yours

as Phil

2010
Trigger

as Brian

2010
Cooking With Stella

as Michael Laffont

2010
Republic of Doyle

as J.J. Murphy

2009
2008
2008
Blindness

as Thief

2007
Redacted

as Criminal Investigator (voice)

2006
2005
Where the Truth Lies

as Publishing Executive

2004
Childstar

as Rick Shille

2004
Clean

as Vernon

2003
Slings & Arrows

as Darren Nichols

2003
Odd Job Jack

as Jack Ryder (voice)

2003
The Event

as Matt Shapiro

2003
2002
Rub & Tug

as Conrad

2002
Trudeau

as Greenbaum

2002
2001
I Was a Rat

as Oliver Tapscrew

2001
Degrassi

as Keith

2001
2000
Vinyl

as Himself

1999
Sea People

as Mr. Whittaker

1999
eXistenZ

as Yevgeny Nourish

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

1996
1995
1994
Camilla

as Security Guard

1994
Exotica

as Thomas

1994
Arrowhead

as Ray Bud

1992
My Niagara

as Cabel

1992
Giant Steps

as Real Estate Hucker

1991
The Adjuster

as Tyler, the young censor

1991
Highway 61

as Pokey Jones

1989
Roadkill

as Russel, the Serial Killer