Acting credits
68
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Don McKellar
Acting
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Movies: 70Series: 11Crew credits: 24
TMDB ID: 20173
IMDb ID: nm0001528
Known for: Acting
Born: August 17, 1963
Age: 62
Place of birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1989 - 2025
Years active: 37
Average TMDB rating: 6.4
Wikidata: Q372256
Other jobs
Director (8)Screenplay (5)Writer (5)Executive Producer (3)Idea (1)Story (1)Story Editor (1)
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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Movies
Movie credits linked with Don McKellar.
Nash the Slash Rises Again!
as Self - Russell the Serial Killer/Self - Pokey Jones(archive footage)
2025 Movie
The Occupant of the Room
2025 Movie
7.6
No Other Choice
Screenplay
2025 Movie
6.0
Crimes of the Future
as Wippet
2022 Movie
6.1
The Middle Man
as Doctor
2021 Movie
5.4
The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
as Bernard Buckley
2020 Movie
6.2
Target Number One
as Norm
2020 Movie
4.9
American Woman
as Newscaster 1 (voice)
2019 Movie
5.2
Through Black Spruce
as Journalist
2019 Movie
Waiting for Ishtar
as Self
2017 Movie
6.6
Meditation Park
as Gabriel
2017 Movie
4.8
Blood Honey
as Dr. Bert Morrison
2017 Movie
4.8
Lolz-ita
as Eric
2017 Movie
6.7
Window Horses
as Dietmar (voice)
2017 Movie
5.1
Your Mother and I
as Father
2016 Movie
7.1
Closet Monster
Story Editor
2016 Movie
5.9
Zoom
as Horowitz
2016 Movie
It's Not You
Writer
2015 Movie
6.7
The Grand Seduction
Director
2014 Movie
4.5
Three Days in Havana
as Pepe
2014 Movie
5.2
Treading Water
as Richard
2013 Movie
5.9
Subconscious Password
as The Host (voice)
2013 Movie
4.6
I'm Yours
as Phil
2012 Movie
4.7
Trigger
as Brian
2010 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Don McKellar.
6.9
The Sympathizer
Executive Producer • 7 eps
2024 Series
1.0
Hey Lady!
as Dr. Wolfe • 5 eps
2020 Series
6.0
Michael: Every Day
Executive Producer • 6 eps
2017 Series
6.3
Sensitive Skin
as Al • 12 eps
2014 Series
7.0
Republic of Doyle
as J.J. Murphy • 1 eps
2010 Series
5.2
Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story
as Clarence Fines • 2 eps
2006 Series
7.3
Slings & Arrows
as Darren Nichols • 18 eps
2003 Series
2.0
Odd Job Jack
as Jack Ryder (voice) • 52 eps
2003 Series
7.5
Degrassi
as Keith • 2 eps
2001 Series
8.4
Twitch City
as Curtis • 13 eps
1998 Series
5.6
Once a Thief
1 eps
1996 Series