Don McKellar
Date of birth: 1963-08-17
Place of birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
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.
Movie Credits
eXistenZ
1999-04-14
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marke
Exotica
1994-09-29
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Fran
I Was a Rat
2001-12-09
A little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy is co
Blindness
2008-05-14
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to
When Night Is Falling
1995-02-01
Camille is a professor at a Protestant college and is in a long-term relationship with Martin, a res
Highway 61
1991-09-05
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who ne
Where the Truth Lies
2005-10-07
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
The Event
2003-01-01
Manhattan prosecutor Nick is charged with looking into the untimely death of city resident Matt, a m
Waydowntown
2002-01-25
Four young office workers have a bet going to see who can last the longest without going outside. In
Childstar
2004-09-10
An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious s
The Red Violin
1998-11-13
300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 168
Roadkill
1989-09-16
A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up f
Last Night
1998-10-23
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke o
Clean
2004-09-01
After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside he
Cooking With Stella
2010-03-19
Inside the Canadian diplomatic compound in New Delhi, a mischievous cook affects the lives of her em
Trigger
2010-09-12
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the co
Rub & Tug
2002-09-10
The new manager of a full-body massage parlor must make sure his employees do not grant sexual favor
Joe's So Mean to Josephine
1997-01-18
Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When she fi
Monkey Warfare
2006-09-10
Two ex-revolutionaries living underground have their lives turned upside down by a sexy young radica
Vinyl
2000-08-01
Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting.
Treading Water
2013-09-13
Mica is born smelling of fish that soap and doctors can't remove. Problems increase starting school
The Art of Woo
2001-09-09
Alessa Woo (Lee) is an ambitious art dealer who meets her match in gifted painter Ben Crowchild (Bea
This Might Be Good
2000-09-07
A festival is a concentration of hope. Audiences hungering for something startingly new, famously fa
Giant Steps
1992-09-12
A boy with an alcoholic father befriends a jazz musician.
Camilla
1994-11-25
Freda Lopez, an aspiring musician, travels with her husband to the beautiful beaches of Georgia wher
Public Domain
2003-01-01
A dark, wryly funny film about a game show run by smug pseudo-intellectuals that awards money to the
Through Black Spruce
2019-03-29
The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and send
Redacted
2007-11-16
A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people thro
Waiting for Ishtar
2017-12-14
A conversation about guilty pleasures turns into one man's quest to find others on a library waiting
Green Door
2008-09-07
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
1993-11-26
A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acc
Sarabande
1997-10-24
The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have
Crimes of the Future
2022-05-25
With his partner, a celebrity performance artist publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs
Trudeau
2002-03-31
This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott T
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1997-04-20
In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultima
Three Days in Havana
2014-03-28
A businessman gets caught up in an assassination plot when he travels to Cuba.
American Woman
2019-09-12
A political activist helps take care of a group of America’s most wanted fugitives, including a well
Subconscious Password
2013-06-10
In this short animation, Oscar®-winning director Chris Landreth uses a common social gaffe - forgett
Leslie, My Name Is Evil
2009-09-14
A young jury member becomes infatuated with Leslie, a troubled teenager and former homecoming prince
Arrowhead
1994-01-01
A man claims to have found a dinosaur skeleton in a vacant lot next to his apartment building.
The Adjuster
1991-11-27
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.
My Niagara
1992-09-12
Shadowed by the death of her mother, Julie Kumagai's life with her widower father is marked by paine
Elimination Dance
1998-09-12
Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.
Window Horses
2017-03-10
Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but s
Zoom
2016-03-31
A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each liv
Lolz-ita
2017-08-30
A naïve but internet savvy 22 year old navigates the reality of her boring, small town Canadian life
Your Mother and I
2016-09-14
Johnna's dad changed the world. Or so he says. Whilst Johnna and her dad are talking, they can't see
Meditation Park
2017-09-08
A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds anothe
Blood Honey
2017-09-01
Tortured by the memory of a childhood trauma, a woman returns after a decade to her family's fly-in
Never Met Picasso
1997-11-28
Still living at home with his avant-garde actress mother, constantly rejected by art schools, and wi
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
2004-01-01
This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadi
I'm Yours
2012-04-20
A road movie romance that conjures a heady concoction of free love and end of the world conspiracy.
The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
2020-09-30
A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces o
The Middle Man
2021-09-17
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a communit
The Passion of Ayn Rand
1999-01-27
Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close t
Target Number One
2020-07-10
Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong rea
Sea People
1999-06-21
At 14, Amanda is a perfect swimmer and a great student. When the factory where his father works clos
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2010-08-12
As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend;
The Occupant of the Room
2025-10-24
Based on the short ghost story of the same name by Algernon Blackwood from 1909, The Occupant of the
Nash the Slash Rises Again!
2025-10-29
Nash The Slash was deliciously surreal, verging on demented. A mummy wrapped in surgical bandages, a