Don McKellar
Acting • Born 1963-08-17
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.
Filmography
69 credits
eXistenZ
Movie • 1999
Yevgeny Nourish
Exotica
Movie • 1994
Thomas
I Was a Rat
Movie • 2001
Oliver Tapscrew
Blindness
Movie • 2008
Thief
When Night Is Falling
Movie • 1995
Timothy
Highway 61
Movie • 1991
Pokey Jones
Where the Truth Lies
Movie • 2005
Publishing Executive
The Event
Movie • 2003
Matt Shapiro
Waydowntown
Movie • 2002
Brad
Childstar
Movie • 2004
Rick Shille
The Red Violin
Movie • 1998
Evan Williams (Montréal)
Roadkill
Movie • 1989
Russel, the Serial Killer
Last Night
Movie • 1998
Patrick Wheeler
Clean
Movie • 2004
Vernon
Cooking With Stella
Movie • 2010
Michael Laffont
Trigger
Movie • 2010
Brian
Rub & Tug
Movie • 2002
Conrad
Joe's So Mean to Josephine
Movie • 1997
Mike
Monkey Warfare
Movie • 2006
Dan
Vinyl
Movie • 2000
Himself
Treading Water
Movie • 2013
Richard
The Art of Woo
Movie • 2001
Nathan
This Might Be Good
Movie • 2000
Giant Steps
Movie • 1992
Real Estate Hucker
Public Domain
Movie • 2003
Host
Through Black Spruce
Movie • 2019
Journalist
Camilla
Movie • 1994
Security Guard
Redacted
Movie • 2007
Criminal Investigator (voice)
Waiting for Ishtar
Movie • 2017
Self
Green Door
Movie • 2008
Ron
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Movie • 1993
Concert Promoter
Sarabande
Movie • 1997
Max
Crimes of the Future
Movie • 2022
Wippet
Trudeau
Movie • 2002
Greenbaum
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Movie • 1997
Paul Heller
Three Days in Havana
Movie • 2014
Pepe
American Woman
Movie • 2019
Newscaster 1 (voice)
Subconscious Password
Movie • 2013
The Host (voice)
Leslie, My Name Is Evil
Movie • 2009
Prosecutor
Arrowhead
Movie • 1994
Ray Bud
The Adjuster
Movie • 1991
Tyler, the young censor
My Niagara
Movie • 1992
Cabel
Elimination Dance
Movie • 1998
Male Dance Partner
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
Movie • 2017
Dietmar (voice)
Zoom
Movie • 2016
Horowitz
Lolz-ita
Movie • 2017
Eric
Your Mother and I
Movie • 2016
Father
Meditation Park
Movie • 2017
Gabriel
Blood Honey
Movie • 2017
Dr. Bert Morrison
Never Met Picasso
Movie • 1997
Jerry
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
Movie • 2004
Self / Pokey Jones / Patrick Wheeler / Matt Shapiro / Brad
I'm Yours
Movie • 2012
Phil
The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
Movie • 2020
Bernard Buckley
The Middle Man
Movie • 2021
Doctor
The Passion of Ayn Rand
Movie • 1999
Alfred
Target Number One
Movie • 2020
Norm
Sea People
Movie • 1999
Mr. Whittaker
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Movie • 2010
Director
The Occupant of the Room
Movie • 2025
Nash the Slash Rises Again!
Movie • 2025
Self - Russell the Serial Killer/Self - Pokey Jones(archive footage)
Odd Job Jack
TV • 2003
Jack Ryder (voice)
Degrassi
TV • 2001
Keith
Once a Thief
TV • 1996
Twitch City
TV • 1998
Curtis
Sensitive Skin
TV • 2014
Al
Hey Lady!
TV • 2020
Dr. Wolfe
Slings & Arrows
TV • 2003
Darren Nichols
Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story
TV • 2006
Clarence Fines
Republic of Doyle
TV • 2010
J.J. Murphy