Don McKellar

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1963-08-17 (62 years old)

Place of Birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Don McKellar

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 Canadia...

Acting

1999

eXistenZ

as Yevgeny Nourish

1994

Exotica

as Thomas

2001

I Was a Rat

as Oliver Tapscrew

2008

Blindness

as Thief

1995

1991

Highway 61

as Pokey Jones

2005

Where the Truth Lies

as Publishing Executive

2003

The Event

as Matt Shapiro

2002

2004

Childstar

as Rick Shille

1998

The Red Violin

as Evan Williams (Montréal)

1989

Roadkill

as Russel, the Serial Killer

1998

Last Night

as Patrick Wheeler

2004

Clean

as Vernon

2010

Cooking With Stella

as Michael Laffont

2010

Trigger

as Brian

2002

Rub & Tug

as Conrad

2006

2000

Vinyl

as Himself

2013

Treading Water

as Richard

2001

1992

Giant Steps

as Real Estate Hucker

1994

Camilla

as Security Guard

2003

2007

Redacted

as Criminal Investigator (voice)

2019

2008

1997

Sarabande

as Max

2002

Trudeau

as Greenbaum

2019

American Woman

as Newscaster 1 (voice)

2013

Subconscious Password

as The Host (voice)

2009

1994

Arrowhead

as Ray Bud

1991

The Adjuster

as Tyler, the young censor

1992

My Niagara

as Cabel

1998

Elimination Dance

as Male Dance Partner

2017

Window Horses

as Dietmar (voice)

2016

Zoom

as Horowitz

2017

Lolz-ita

as Eric

2016

2017

Meditation Park

as Gabriel

2017

Blood Honey

as Dr. Bert Morrison

1996

2004

Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche

as Self / Pokey Jones / Patrick Wheeler / Matt Shapiro / Brad

2012

I'm Yours

as Phil

2020

2021

1999

Sea People

as Mr. Whittaker

Production

2008

Blindness

as Screenplay

2004

Childstar

as Director

1998

1998

Last Night

as Director

2014

2016

Closet Monster

as Story Editor

2004

Childstar

as Writer

2000

Preludes

as Director

1992

Blue

as Writer

1989

Roadkill

as Screenplay

1991

Highway 61

as Story

1991

Highway 61

as Screenplay

1998

1995

1992

Blue

as Director

1998

1998

Last Night

as Writer

2019

2015

It's Not You

as Director

2015

It's Not You

as Writer

2025

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