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 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
Yevgeny Nourish
eXistenZ
Thomas
Exotica
Oliver Tapscrew
I Was a Rat
Thief
Blindness
Timothy
When Night Is Falling
Pokey Jones
Highway 61
Publishing Executive
Where the Truth Lies
Matt Shapiro
The Event
Brad
Waydowntown
Rick Shille
Childstar
Evan Williams (Montréal)
Le Violon rouge
Russel, the Serial Killer
Roadkill
Patrick Wheeler
Last Night
Vernon
Clean
Michael Laffont
Cooking With Stella
Brian
Trigger
Conrad
Rub & Tug
Mike
Joe's So Mean to Josephine
Dan
Monkey Warfare
Himself
Vinyl
Richard
Treading Water
Nathan
The Art of Woo
This Might Be Good
Real Estate Hucker
Giant Steps
Security Guard
Camilla
Host
Public Domain
Journalist
Through Black Spruce
Criminal Investigator (voice)
Redacted
Self
Waiting for Ishtar
Ron
Green Door
Concert Promoter
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Max
Sarabande
Wippet
Crimes of the Future
Greenbaum
Trudeau
Paul Heller
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Pepe
Three Days in Havana
Newscaster 1 (voice)
American Woman
The Host (voice)
Subconscious Password
Prosecutor
Leslie, My Name Is Evil
Ray Bud
Arrowhead
Tyler, the young censor
The Adjuster
Cabel
My Niagara
Male Dance Partner
Elimination Dance
Dietmar (voice)
Window Horses
Horowitz
Zoom
Eric
Lolz-ita
Father
Your Mother and I
Gabriel
Meditation Park
Dr. Bert Morrison
Blood Honey
Jerry
Never Met Picasso
Self / Pokey Jones / Patrick Wheeler / Matt Shapiro / Brad
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
Phil
I'm Yours
Bernard Buckley
The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
Doctor
The Middle Man
Alfred
The Passion of Ayn Rand
Norm
Target Number One
Mr. Whittaker
Sea People
Director
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
The Occupant of the Room
Self - Russell the Serial Killer/Self - Pokey Jones(archive footage)
Nash the Slash Rises Again!
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
60
Gender
Male
Birthday
1963-08-17
Place of Birth
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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