Don McKellar

Schauspieler

1963-08-17 · Toronto, 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.

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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• Scott Pilgrim gegen den Rest der Welt (2010) — Director
• eXistenZ (1999) — Yevgeny Nourish
• Die Stadt der Blinden (2008) — Thief, Screenplay
• Crimes of the Future (2022) — Wippet
• No Other Choice (2025) — Screenplay
• Die rote Violine (1998) — Evan Williams (Montréal), Screenplay
• Exotica (1994) — Thomas
• Die große Versuchung - Lügen, bis der Arzt kommt (2014) — Director
• Wahre Lügen (2005) — Publishing Executive
• Closet Monster (2016) — Story Editor
• Redacted (2007) — Criminal Investigator (voice)
• Die letzte Nacht (1998) — Patrick Wheeler, Director, Writer
• Most Wanted (2020) — Norm
• Zoom - Good Girl Gone Bad (2016) — Horowitz
• When Night Is Falling (1995) — Timothy
• The Adjuster (1991) — Tyler, the young censor
• The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw (2020) — Bernard Buckley
• Clean (2004) — Vernon
• The Middle Man (2021) — Doctor
• Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) — Concert Promoter, Screenplay
• Through Black Spruce (2019) — Journalist, Director
• Manson Girl (2009) — Prosecutor
• Waydowntown (2002) — Brad
• Tanz mit einem Mörder (1995) — Writer