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 |