
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.
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Acting (57 movies)

eXistenZ
1999

Exotica
1994

I Was a Rat
2001

Blindness
2008

When Night Is Falling
1995

Highway 61
1991

Where the Truth Lies
2005

The Event
2003

Waydowntown
2002

Childstar
2004

The Red Violin
1998

Roadkill
1989

Last Night
1998

Clean
2004

Cooking With Stella
2010

Trigger
2010

Rub & Tug
2002

Joe's So Mean to Josephine
1997

Monkey Warfare
2006

Vinyl
2000

Treading Water
2013

This Might Be Good
2000

Giant Steps
1992

Camilla
1994

Public Domain
2003

Redacted
2007

Through Black Spruce
2019

Waiting for Ishtar
2017

Green Door
2008

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
1993

Sarabande
1997

Crimes of the Future
2022

Trudeau
2002

In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1997

Three Days in Havana
2014

American Woman
2019

Subconscious Password
2013

Leslie, My Name Is Evil
2009

Arrowhead
1994

The Adjuster
1991

My Niagara
1992

Elimination Dance
1998

Window Horses
2017

Zoom
2016

Lolz-ita
2017

Your Mother and I
2016

Meditation Park
2017

Blood Honey
2017

Never Met Picasso
1996

I'm Yours
2012

The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
2020

The Middle Man
2021

The Passion of Ayn Rand
1999

Target Number One
2020

Sea People
1999

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2010

The Occupant of the Room
2025
Directing (11 movies)

Childstar
2004

Last Night
1998

The Grand Seduction
2014

A Word from the Management
2000

Preludes
2000

Blue
1992

Elimination Dance
1998

Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriends: Istanbul
2007

Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriends: Ankara
2007

Through Black Spruce
2019

It's Not You
2015
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Roadkill | 1989 | Screenplay |
| Highway 61 | 1991 | Screenplay |
| Blue | 1992 | Writer |
| Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould | 1993 | Screenplay |
| Dance Me Outside | 1995 | Writer |
| Elimination Dance | 1998 | Writer |
| Last Night | 1998 | Writer |
| The Red Violin | 1998 | Writer |
| A Word from the Management | 2000 | Writer |
| Childstar | 2004 | Writer |
| Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriends: Ankara | 2007 | Writer |
| Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriends: Istanbul | 2007 | Writer |
| Blindness | 2008 | Screenplay |
| This Movie Is Broken | 2010 | Writer |
| It's Not You | 2015 | Writer |
| No Other Choice | 2025 | Writer |