Don McKellar
Actor · Director · WriterDon 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.
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FILMOGRAPHY
ACTOR60
The Occupant of the Room
2025
Minturn
Nash the Slash Rises Again!
2025
Self - Russell the Serial Killer/Self - Pokey Jones(archive footage)
Crimes of the Future
2022
Wippet
The Middle Man
2021
Doctor
The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
2020
Bernard Buckley
Target Number One
2020
Norm
Through Black Spruce
2019
Journalist
American Woman
2019
Newscaster 1 (voice)
Waiting for Ishtar
2017
Self
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
2017
Dietmar (voice)
Lolz-ita
2017
Eric
Meditation Park
2017
Gabriel
Blood Honey
2017
Dr. Bert Morrison
Zoom
2016
Horowitz
Your Mother and I
2016
Father
Three Days in Havana
2014
Pepe
Treading Water
2013
Richard
Subconscious Password
2013
The Host (voice)
I'm Yours
2012
Phil
Cooking With Stella
2010
Michael Laffont
Trigger
2010
Brian
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2010
Director
Leslie, My Name Is Evil
2009
Prosecutor
Blindness
2008
Thief
Green Door
2008
Ron
Redacted
2007
Criminal Investigator (voice)
Monkey Warfare
2006
Dan
Where the Truth Lies
2005
Publishing Executive
Childstar
2004
Rick Shille
Clean
2004
Vernon
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
2004
Self / Pokey Jones / Patrick Wheeler / Matt Shapiro / Brad
The Event
2003
Matt Shapiro
Public Domain
2003
Host
Waydowntown
2002
Brad
Rub & Tug
2002
Conrad
Trudeau
2002
Greenbaum
I Was a Rat
2001
Oliver Tapscrew
- The Art of Woo
The Art of Woo
2001
Nathan
Vinyl
2000
Himself
This Might Be Good
2000
eXistenZ
1999
Yevgeny Nourish
The Passion of Ayn Rand
1999
Alfred
Sea People
1999
Mr. Whittaker
The Red Violin
1998
Evan Williams (Montréal)
Last Night
1998
Patrick Wheeler
Elimination Dance
1998
Male Dance Partner
Joe's So Mean to Josephine
1997
Mike
Sarabande
1997
Max
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1997
Paul Heller
Never Met Picasso
1997
Jerry
When Night Is Falling
1995
Timothy
Exotica
1994
Thomas
Camilla
1994
Security Guard
Arrowhead
1994
Ray Bud
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
1993
Concert Promoter
Giant Steps
1992
Real Estate Hucker
My Niagara
1992
Cabel
Highway 61
1991
Pokey Jones
The Adjuster
1991
Tyler, the young censor
Roadkill
1989
Russel, the Serial Killer
DIRECTOR11
Through Black Spruce
2019
Director
It's Not You
2015
Director
The Grand Seduction
2014
Director
Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriends: Istanbul
2007
Director
Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriends: Ankara
2007
Director
Childstar
2004
Director
A Word from the Management
2000
Director
Preludes
2000
Director
Last Night
1998
Director
Elimination Dance
1998
Director
Blue
1992
Director
WRITER17
No Other Choice
2025
Screenplay
Closet Monster
2016
Story Editor
It's Not You
2015
Writer
This Movie Is Broken
2010
Idea, Writer
Blindness
2008
Screenplay
Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriends: Istanbul
2007
Writer
Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriends: Ankara
2007
Writer
Childstar
2004
Writer
A Word from the Management
2000
Writer
Elimination Dance
1998
Writer
Last Night
1998
Writer
The Red Violin
1998
Screenplay
Dance Me Outside
1995
Writer
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
1993
Screenplay
Blue
1992
Writer
Highway 61
1991
Screenplay, Story
Roadkill
1989
Screenplay
