Don McKellar

Don McKellar (62)

1963-08-17 | 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. 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.

On Movies

  • The Occupant of the Room
  • Crimes of the Future
  • The Middle Man
  • The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
  • Target Number One
  • American Woman
  • Through Black Spruce
  • Meditation Park
  • Blood Honey
  • Lolz-ita
  • Window Horses
  • Your Mother and I
  • Zoom
  • Three Days in Havana
  • Treading Water
  • Subconscious Password
  • I'm Yours
  • Trigger
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  • Cooking With Stella
  • Leslie, My Name Is Evil
  • Blindness
  • Redacted
  • Monkey Warfare
  • Where the Truth Lies
  • Childstar
  • Clean
  • The Event
  • Public Domain
  • Rub & Tug
  • Trudeau
  • Waydowntown
  • I Was a Rat
  • The Art of Woo
  • Sea People
  • eXistenZ
  • The Passion of Ayn Rand
  • The Red Violin
  • Last Night
  • Sarabande
  • In the Presence of Mine Enemies
  • Joe's So Mean to Josephine
  • Never Met Picasso
  • When Night Is Falling
  • Camilla
  • Exotica
  • Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
  • Giant Steps
  • The Adjuster
  • Highway 61
  • Roadkill

Movies as Director

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