Don McKellar
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 17, 1963
- Birthplace
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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
Collectors 2026
Actor
Nash the Slash Rises Again! 2025
as Self - Russell the Serial Killer/Self - Pokey Jones(archive footage)
The Occupant of the Room 2025
as Minturn
No Other Choice 2025
Screenplay
Crimes of the Future 2022
as Wippet
The Middle Man 2021
as Doctor
The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw 2020
as Bernard Buckley
Target Number One 2020
as Norm
American Woman 2019
as Newscaster 1 (voice)
Through Black Spruce 2019
as Journalist, Director
Waiting for Ishtar 2017
as Self
Meditation Park 2017
as Gabriel
Blood Honey 2017
as Dr. Bert Morrison
Lolz-ita 2017
as Eric
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming 2017
as Dietmar (voice)
Your Mother and I 2016
as Father
Closet Monster 2016
Story Editor
Zoom 2016
as Horowitz
It's Not You 2015
Director, Writer
The Grand Seduction 2014
Director
Three Days in Havana 2014
as Pepe
Treading Water 2013
as Richard
Subconscious Password 2013
as The Host (voice)
I'm Yours 2012
as Phil
Trigger 2010
as Brian
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 2010
as Director
This Movie Is Broken 2010
Idea, Writer
Cooking With Stella 2010
as Michael Laffont
Leslie, My Name Is Evil 2009
as Prosecutor
Green Door 2008
as Ron
Blindness 2008
as Thief, Screenplay
Redacted 2007
as Criminal Investigator (voice)
Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriends: Istanbul 2007
Director, Writer
Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriends: Ankara 2007
Director, Writer
Monkey Warfare 2006
as Dan
Where the Truth Lies 2005
as Publishing Executive
Childstar 2004
as Rick Shille, Director, Writer
Clean 2004
as Vernon
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche 2004
as Self / Pokey Jones / Patrick Wheeler / Matt Shapiro / Brad
The Event 2003
as Matt Shapiro
Public Domain 2003
as Host
Rub & Tug 2002
as Conrad
Trudeau 2002
as Greenbaum
Waydowntown 2002
as Brad
I Was a Rat 2001
as Oliver Tapscrew
- The Art of Woo
The Art of Woo 2001
as Nathan
Preludes 2000
Director
A Word from the Management 2000
Director, Writer
This Might Be Good 2000
Actor
Vinyl 2000
as Himself
Sea People 1999
as Mr. Whittaker
eXistenZ 1999
as Yevgeny Nourish
The Passion of Ayn Rand 1999
as Alfred
The Red Violin 1998
as Evan Williams (Montréal), Screenplay
Last Night 1998
as Patrick Wheeler, Director, Writer
Elimination Dance 1998
as Male Dance Partner, Writer, Director
Never Met Picasso 1997
as Jerry
Sarabande 1997
as Max
In the Presence of Mine Enemies 1997
as Paul Heller
Joe's So Mean to Josephine 1997
as Mike
Dance Me Outside 1995
Writer
When Night Is Falling 1995
as Timothy
Camilla 1994
as Security Guard
Exotica 1994
as Thomas
Arrowhead 1994
as Ray Bud
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould 1993
as Concert Promoter, Screenplay
My Niagara 1992
as Cabel
Giant Steps 1992
as Real Estate Hucker
Blue 1992
Writer, Director
The Adjuster 1991
as Tyler, the young censor
Highway 61 1991
as Pokey Jones, Story, Screenplay
Roadkill 1989
as Russel, the Serial Killer, Screenplay
Credits from TMDB.