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