Don McKellar
Acting
- Born:
- 1963-08-17
- Place of birth:
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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.
Known For
Filmography
Collectors
Nash the Slash Rises Again!
The Occupant of the Room
The Haunted Season
Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent
Crimes of the Future
The Middle Man
The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
Target Number One
Hey Lady!
American Woman
Through Black Spruce
Waiting for Ishtar
Meditation Park
Blood Honey
Lolz-ita
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
Your Mother and I
Zoom
Sensitive Skin
Three Days in Havana
Treading Water
Subconscious Password
I'm Yours
Trigger
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Cooking With Stella
Republic of Doyle
Leslie, My Name Is Evil
Green Door
Blindness
Redacted
Monkey Warfare
Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story
Where the Truth Lies
Childstar
Clean
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
Slings & Arrows
Odd Job Jack
The Event
Public Domain
Rub & Tug
Trudeau
Waydowntown
I Was a Rat
Degrassi
The Art of Woo
This Might Be Good
Vinyl
Sea People
eXistenZ
The Passion of Ayn Rand
The Red Violin
Last Night
Elimination Dance
Twitch City
Never Met Picasso
Sarabande
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Joe's So Mean to Josephine
Once a Thief
When Night Is Falling
Camilla
Exotica
Arrowhead
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Giant Steps
My Niagara
The Adjuster
Highway 61
Roadkill