Don McKellar
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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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.5224 |
| Birthday | 1963-08-17 |
| Place of Birth | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Also Known As |
1999
eXistenZ
6.781/2124
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been dam...
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eXistenZ
1994
Exotica
6.601/382
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, th...
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Exotica
2001
I Was a Rat
0/0
A little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy is cold, wet and desperate for shelter, but Bob and Joa...
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I Was a Rat
2008
Blindness
6.513/1346
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of...
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Blindness
1995
When Night Is Falling
6.261/88
Camille is a professor at a Protestant college and is in a long-term relationship with Martin, a respected minister and fellow professor. When Camille...
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When Night Is Falling
1991
Highway 61
6.8/21
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corps...
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Highway 61
2005
Where the Truth Lies
6.136/309
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
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Where the Truth Lies
2003
The Event
5.625/16
Manhattan prosecutor Nick is charged with looking into the untimely death of city resident Matt, a musician who had AIDS. As she questions Matt's loya...
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The Event
2002
Waydowntown
5.56/25
Four young office workers have a bet going to see who can last the longest without going outside. In the maze that is the downtown core of a large cit...
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Waydowntown
2004
Childstar
5.1/12
An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.
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Childstar
1998
The Red Violin
7.349/445
300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, En...
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The Red Violin
1989
Roadkill
5.607/15
A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs.
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Roadkill
1998
Last Night
6.643/161
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
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Last Night
2004
Clean
6.4/73
After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to rega...
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Clean
2010
Cooking With Stella
3.636/11
Inside the Canadian diplomatic compound in New Delhi, a mischievous cook affects the lives of her employers and fellow staff.
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Cooking With Stella
2010
Trigger
4.7/23
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
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Trigger
2002
Rub & Tug
4.5/13
The new manager of a full-body massage parlor must make sure his employees do not grant sexual favors to clients.
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Rub & Tug
1997
Joe's So Mean to Josephine
5.25/8
Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When she finally worms her way into his heart she realises it...
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Joe's So Mean to Josephine
2006
Monkey Warfare
4.4/10
Two ex-revolutionaries living underground have their lives turned upside down by a sexy young radical who goes from smashing SUVs to fighting gentrifi...
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Monkey Warfare
2000
Vinyl
7.3/20
Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting.
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Vinyl
2013
Treading Water
5.2/19
Mica is born smelling of fish that soap and doctors can't remove. Problems increase starting school as no one'll be his friend. He sees a therapist. H...
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Treading Water
2001
The Art of Woo
1/2
Alessa Woo (Lee) is an ambitious art dealer who meets her match in gifted painter Ben Crowchild (Beach) in this romantic comedy.
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The Art of Woo
2000
This Might Be Good
6/1
A festival is a concentration of hope. Audiences hungering for something startingly new, famously familiar or just plain "good". Actors hoping their w...
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This Might Be Good
1992
Giant Steps
0/0
A boy with an alcoholic father befriends a jazz musician.
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Giant Steps
2003
Public Domain
2/2
A dark, wryly funny film about a game show run by smug pseudo-intellectuals that awards money to the contestant with the most pathetic life. The "cont...
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Public Domain
2019
Through Black Spruce
5.2/33
The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and sends her twin sister on a journey south to find her.
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Through Black Spruce
1994
Camilla
5.5/22
Freda Lopez, an aspiring musician, travels with her husband to the beautiful beaches of Georgia where she befriends Camilla, an odd and exotic elderly...
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Camilla
2007
Redacted
5.981/181
A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American militar...
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Redacted
2017
Waiting for Ishtar
0/0
A conversation about guilty pleasures turns into one man's quest to find others on a library waiting list, while simultaneously examining the fate of...
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Waiting for Ishtar
2008
Green Door
0/0
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Green Door
1993
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
7/47
A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
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Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
1997
Sarabande
6.5/2
The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels...
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Sarabande
2022
Crimes of the Future
6.022/1249
With his partner, a celebrity performance artist publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from...
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Crimes of the Future
2002
Trudeau
8/4
This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing P...
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Trudeau
1997
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
4.8/5
In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at redempt...
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies
2014
Three Days in Havana
4.5/12
A businessman gets caught up in an assassination plot when he travels to Cuba.
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Three Days in Havana
2019
American Woman
4.9/17
A political activist helps take care of a group of America’s most wanted fugitives, including a well-known, recently radicalized heiress.
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American Woman
2013
Subconscious Password
5.944/9
In this short animation, Oscar®-winning director Chris Landreth uses a common social gaffe - forgetting somebody's name - as the starting point for a...
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Subconscious Password
2009
Leslie, My Name Is Evil
4.3/29
A young jury member becomes infatuated with Leslie, a troubled teenager and former homecoming princess, who became a follower of Charles Manson's cult...
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Leslie, My Name Is Evil
1994
Arrowhead
9/1
A man claims to have found a dinosaur skeleton in a vacant lot next to his apartment building.
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Arrowhead
1991
The Adjuster
6/72
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.
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The Adjuster
1992
My Niagara
5/2
Shadowed by the death of her mother, Julie Kumagai's life with her widower father is marked by pained, turbulent exchanges. Indifferent to a break-up...
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My Niagara
1998
Elimination Dance
7/1
Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.
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Elimination Dance
2017
Window Horses
6.7/18
Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she’d rather be in Paris. She lives at home with he...
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Window Horses
2016
Zoom
5.851/111
A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about...
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Zoom
2017
Lolz-ita
4.833/6
A naïve but internet savvy 22 year old navigates the reality of her boring, small town Canadian life juxtaposed with the fantasy of her provocative an...
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Lolz-ita
2016
Your Mother and I
5.1/7
Johnna's dad changed the world. Or so he says. Whilst Johnna and her dad are talking, they can't seem to connect, each growing more and more frustrate...
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Your Mother and I
2017
Meditation Park
6.6/19
A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s thong in his laundry.
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Meditation Park
2017
Blood Honey
4.8/17
Tortured by the memory of a childhood trauma, a woman returns after a decade to her family's fly-in hunting lodge to assist her siblings with their dy...
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Blood Honey
1997
Never Met Picasso
3.8/5
Still living at home with his avant-garde actress mother, constantly rejected by art schools, and without a lover, aspiring painter Andrew decides to...
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Never Met Picasso
2004
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
5/4
This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers...
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Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
2012
I'm Yours
4.6/5
A road movie romance that conjures a heady concoction of free love and end of the world conspiracy.
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I'm Yours
2020
The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
5.409/77
A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.
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The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
2021
The Middle Man
6.1/53
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle...
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The Middle Man
1999
The Passion of Ayn Rand
4.9/15
Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.
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The Passion of Ayn Rand
2020
Target Number One
6.2/131
Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong reasons. When the deal goes sour, Daniel gets thrown...
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Target Number One
1999
Sea People
6.3/6
At 14, Amanda is a perfect swimmer and a great student. When the factory where his father works closes and he must go to work in another city, she fee...
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Sea People
2010
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
7.486/8434
As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But w...
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2025
The Occupant of the Room
0/0
Based on the short ghost story of the same name by Algernon Blackwood from 1909, The Occupant of the Room centers on a schoolteacher whose late-night...
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The Occupant of the Room
2025
Nash the Slash Rises Again!
0/0
Nash The Slash was deliciously surreal, verging on demented. A mummy wrapped in surgical bandages, an invisible man in full formal white tuxedo and to...
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