About
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.
Filmography
Nash the Slash Rises Again!2025 · Self - Russell the Serial Killer/Self - Pokey Jones(archive footage)
The Occupant of the Room2025 · Minturn
Crimes of the Future2022 · Wippet
The Middle Man2021 · Doctor
The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw2020 · Bernard Buckley
Target Number One2020 · Norm
American Woman2019 · Newscaster 1 (voice)
Through Black Spruce2019 · Journalist
Waiting for Ishtar2017 · Self
Meditation Park2017 · Gabriel
Blood Honey2017 · Dr. Bert Morrison
Lolz-ita2017 · Eric
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming2017 · Dietmar (voice)
Your Mother and I2016 · Father
Zoom2016 · Horowitz
Three Days in Havana2014 · Pepe
Treading Water2013 · Richard
Subconscious Password2013 · The Host (voice)
I'm Yours2012 · Phil
Trigger2010 · Brian




















