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.

Filmography

• 2026Collectors
• 2025No Other Choice — Screenplay
• 2025The Occupant of the Room — Minturn
• Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent — Les Cake
• The Haunted Season — Minturn
• The Sympathizer — Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
• 2022Crimes of the Future — Wippet
• 2021The Middle Man — Doctor
• Hey Lady! — Dr. Wolfe
• 2020Target Number One — Norm
• 2020The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw — Bernard Buckley
• 2019American Woman — Newscaster 1 (voice)
• 2019Through Black Spruce — Journalist, Director
• 2017Blood Honey — Dr. Bert Morrison
• 2017Lolz-ita — Eric
• 2017Meditation Park — Gabriel
• Michael: Every Day — Executive Producer
• 2017Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming — Dietmar (voice)
• 2016Closet Monster — Story Editor
• 2016Your Mother and I — Father
• 2016Zoom — Horowitz
• 2015It's Not You — Writer, Director
• Sensitive Skin — Al, Executive Producer
• 2014The Grand Seduction — Director
• 2014Three Days in Havana — Pepe
• 2013Subconscious Password — The Host (voice)
• 2013Treading Water — Richard
• 2012I'm Yours — Phil
• 2010Cooking With Stella — Michael Laffont
• Republic of Doyle — JJ Murphy
• 2010Scott Pilgrim vs. the World — Director
• 2010This Movie Is Broken — Idea, Writer
• 2010Trigger — Brian
• 2009Leslie, My Name Is Evil — Prosecutor
• 2008Blindness — Thief, Screenplay
• 2008Green Door — Ron
• 2007Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriends: Ankara — Director, Writer
• 2007Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriends: Istanbul — Director, Writer
• 2007Redacted — Criminal Investigator (voice)
• 2006Monkey Warfare — Dan
• Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story — Clarence Fines
• 2005Where the Truth Lies — Publishing Executive
• 2004Childstar — Rick Shille, Director, Writer
• 2004Clean — Vernon
• Odd Job Jack — Jack Ryder (voice)
• 2003Public Domain — Host
• Slings & Arrows — Darren Nichols
• 2003The Event — Matt Shapiro
• 2002Rub & Tug — Conrad
• 2002Trudeau — Greenbaum
• 2002Waydowntown — Brad
• Degrassi — Keith
• 2001I Was a Rat — Oliver Tapscrew
• 2001The Art of Woo — Nathan
• 2000A Word from the Management — Director, Writer
• 2000Preludes — Director
• 2000This Might Be Good
• 1999Sea People — Mr. Whittaker
• 1999The Passion of Ayn Rand — Alfred
• 1999eXistenZ — Yevgeny Nourish
• 1998Elimination Dance — Male Dance Partner, Writer, Director
• 1998Last Night — Patrick Wheeler, Director, Writer
• 1998The Red Violin — Evan Williams (Montréal), Screenplay
• Twitch City — Curtis, Teleplay, Writer, Story, Creator
• 1997In the Presence of Mine Enemies — Paul Heller
• 1997Joe's So Mean to Josephine — Mike
• 1997Never Met Picasso — Jerry
• 1997Sarabande — Max
• Once a Thief
• 1995Dance Me Outside — Writer
• 1995When Night Is Falling — Timothy
• 1994Arrowhead — Ray Bud
• 1994Camilla — Security Guard
• 1994Exotica — Thomas
• 1993Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould — Concert Promoter, Screenplay
• 1992Blue — Writer, Director
• 1992Giant Steps — Real Estate Hucker
• 1992My Niagara — Cabel
• 1991Highway 61 — Pokey Jones, Screenplay, Story
• 1991The Adjuster — Tyler, the young censor
• 1989Roadkill — Russel, the Serial Killer, Screenplay

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2025Nash the Slash Rises Again! — Self - Russell the Serial Killer/Self - Pokey Jones(archive footage)
• 2017Waiting for Ishtar — Self
• 2004Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche — Self / Pokey Jones / Patrick Wheeler / Matt Shapiro / Brad
• 2000Vinyl — Himself