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
eXistenZ (1999)
as Yevgeny Nourish
Blindness (2008)
as Thief
Where the Truth Lies (2005)
as Publishing Executive
Crimes of the Future (2022)
as Wippet
Redacted (2007)
as Criminal Investigator (voice)
Treading Water (2013)
as Richard
Clean (2004)
as Vernon
The Red Violin (1998)
as Evan Williams (Montréal)
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming (2017)
as Dietmar (voice)
Exotica (1994)
as Thomas
Target Number One (2020)
as Norm
Collectors (2026)
Actor
Nash the Slash Rises Again! (2025)
as Self - Russell the Serial Killer/Self - Pokey Jones(archive footage)
Lolz-ita (2017)
as Eric
When Night Is Falling (1995)
as Timothy
Trigger (2010)
as Brian
The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw (2020)
as Bernard Buckley
Leslie, My Name Is Evil (2009)
as Prosecutor
Zoom (2016)
as Horowitz
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)
as Concert Promoter
The Adjuster (1991)
as Tyler, the young censor
My Niagara (1992)
as Cabel
Last Night (1998)
as Patrick Wheeler
The Middle Man (2021)
as Doctor
I'm Yours (2012)
as Phil
Sarabande (1997)
as Max
American Woman (2019)
as Newscaster 1 (voice)
Blood Honey (2017)
as Dr. Bert Morrison
The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999)
as Alfred
Three Days in Havana (2014)
as Pepe
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche (2004)
as Self / Pokey Jones / Patrick Wheeler / Matt Shapiro / Brad
Highway 61 (1991)
as Pokey Jones
Camilla (1994)
as Security Guard
Through Black Spruce (2019)
as Journalist
Never Met Picasso (1997)
as Jerry
Your Mother and I (2016)
as Father
In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997)
as Paul Heller
The Event (2003)
as Matt Shapiro
The Art of Woo (2001)
as Nathan
I Was a Rat (2001)
as Oliver Tapscrew
Trudeau (2002)
as Greenbaum
Joe's So Mean to Josephine (1997)
as Mike
Childstar (2004)
as Rick Shille
Cooking With Stella (2010)
as Michael Laffont
Sea People (1999)
as Mr. Whittaker
Waydowntown (2002)
as Brad
Roadkill (1989)
as Russel, the Serial Killer
Monkey Warfare (2006)
as Dan
Meditation Park (2017)
as Gabriel
Arrowhead (1994)
as Ray Bud
Green Door (2008)
as Ron
Elimination Dance (1998)
as Male Dance Partner
The Occupant of the Room (2025)
as Minturn
Rub & Tug (2002)
as Conrad
This Might Be Good (2000)
Actor
Public Domain (2003)
as Host
Waiting for Ishtar (2017)
as Self
Subconscious Password (2013)
as The Host (voice)
Giant Steps (1992)
as Real Estate Hucker
Vinyl (2000)
as Himself