
Don McKellar
Actor
- Born
- August 17, 1963 (age 63) · 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.
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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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Known for
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- 2026Collectors
- 2025Nash the Slash Rises Again! as Self - Russell the Serial Killer/Self - Pokey Jones(archive footage)
- 2025The Occupant of the Room as Minturn
- 2022Crimes of the Future as Wippet
- 2021The Middle Man as Doctor
- 2020The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw as Bernard Buckley
- 2020Target Number One as Norm
- 2019American Woman as Newscaster 1 (voice)
- 2019Through Black Spruce as Journalist
- 2017Waiting for Ishtar











