Don McKellar
Known for ActingBorn 1963-08-17Toronto, 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.
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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.
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Known for
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2010 · as Director
Blindness
2008 · as Thief
eXistenZ
1999 · as Yevgeny Nourish
Exotica
1994 · as Thomas
The Red Violin
1998 · as Evan Williams (Montréal)
Crimes of the Future
2022 · as Wippet
Treading Water
2013 · as Richard
Redacted
2007 · as Criminal Investigator (voice)
Target Number One
2020 · as Norm
Nash the Slash Rises Again!
2025 · as Self - Russell the Serial Killer/Self - Pokey Jones(archive footage)
Where the Truth Lies
2005 · as Publishing Executive
Last Night
1998 · as Patrick Wheeler
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
2017 · as Dietmar (voice)
When Night Is Falling
1995 · as Timothy
The Adjuster
1991 · as Tyler, the young censor
American Woman
2019 · as Newscaster 1 (voice)
Zoom
2016 · as Horowitz
The Middle Man
2021 · as Doctor