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