Biography
Don McKellar CM (born August 17, 1963) is a Canadian actor, writer, playwright, and filmmaker. Description above from the Wikipedia article Don McKellar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
No Other Choice
2026
Writer
After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.
Crimes of the Future
2022
as Wippet
With his partner, a celebrity performance artist publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from ...
The Middle Man
2021
as Doctor
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 ...
The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
2020
as Bernard Buckley
A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.
Target Number One
2020
as Norm
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 ...
American Woman
2019
as Newscaster 1 (voice)
A political activist helps take care of a group of America’s most wanted fugitives, including a well-known, recently radicalized heiress.
Through Black Spruce
2019
as Journalist
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.
Through Black Spruce
2019
Director
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.
Waiting for Ishtar
2017
as Self
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 ...
Meditation Park
2017
as Gabriel
A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s thong in his laundry.
Blood Honey
2017
as Dr. Bert Morrison
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...
Lolz-ita
2017
as Eric
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...
Window Horses
2017
as Dietmar
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...
Your Mother and I
2016
as Father
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...
Closet Monster
2016
Story Editor
A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
Zoom
2015
as Horowitz
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...
It's Not You
2015
Writer, Director
Relationships can be an endless cycle of breakups.
The Grand Seduction
2014
Director
A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis la...
Three Days in Havana
2014
as Pepe
A businessman gets caught up in an assassination plot when he travels to Cuba.
Treading Water
2013
as Richard
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...
Subconscious Password
2013
as The Host (voice)
In this short animation, Oscar®-winning director Chris Landreth uses a common social gaffe - forgetting somebody's name - as the starting point for a ...
I'm Yours
2012
as Phil
A road movie romance that conjures a heady concoction of free love and end of the world conspiracy.
Trigger
2010
as Brian
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2010
as Director
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...
This Movie Is Broken
2010
Idea, Writer
Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school in France, and maybe she only granted this miracle as a...
Cooking With Stella
2010
as Michael Laffont
Inside the Canadian diplomatic compound in New Delhi, a mischievous cook affects the lives of her employers and fellow staff.
Leslie, My Name Is Evil
2009
as Prosecutor
A young jury member becomes infatuated with Leslie, a troubled teenager and former homecoming princess, who became a follower of Charles Manson's cult...
Green Door
2008
as Ron
Blindness
2008
as Thief
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of ...
Blindness
2008
Screenplay
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of ...
Redacted
2007
as Criminal Investigator (voice)
A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American militar...
Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriends: Istanbul
2007
Director, Writer
A filmic love letter. One out of two. Premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival; Screened at the 2007 Pocket Festival Film in Paris
Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriends: Ankara
2007
Director, Writer
A filmic love letter. One out of the two. Premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival; Screened at the 2007 Pocket Film Festival in Pari...
Monkey Warfare
2006
as Dan
Two ex-revolutionaries living underground have their lives turned upside down by a sexy young radical who goes from smashing SUVs to fighting gentrifi...
Where the Truth Lies
2005
as Publishing Executive
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
Childstar
2004
as Rick Shille
An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.
Childstar
2004
Director, Writer
An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.
Clean
2004
as Vernon
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...
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
2004
as Self / Pokey Jones / Patrick Wheeler / Matt Shapiro / Brad
This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers...
The Event
2003
as Matt Shapiro
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...
Public Domain
2003
as Host
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...
Rub & Tug
2002
as Conrad
The new manager of a full-body massage parlor must make sure his employees do not grant sexual favors to clients.
Trudeau
2002
as Greenbaum
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...
Waydowntown
2002
as Brad
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...
I Was a Rat
2001
as Oliver Tapscrew
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...
The Art of Woo
2001
as Nathan
Alessa Woo (Lee) is an ambitious art dealer who meets her match in gifted painter Ben Crowchild (Beach) in this romantic comedy.
Preludes
2000
Director
Commissioned by the Toronto International Film Festival to mark the event's 25th anniversary in September 2000, the "Preludes" program consisted of te...
This Might Be Good
2000
A festival is a concentration of hope. Audiences hungering for something startingly new, famously familiar or just plain "good". Actors hoping their w...
A Word from the Management
2000
Director, Writer
Don McKellar’s autobiographical, wryly comic short looks at Toronto International Film Festival–goers’ fierce desire to get into a screening.
Vinyl
2000
as Himself
Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting.
Sea People
1999
as Mr. Whittaker
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...
eXistenZ
1999
as Yevgeny Nourish
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...
The Passion of Ayn Rand
1999
as Alfred
Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.
The Red Violin
1998
as Evan Williams (Montréal)
300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, En...
The Red Violin
1998
Writer
300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, En...
Last Night
1998
as Patrick Wheeler
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
Last Night
1998
Director, Writer
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
Elimination Dance
1998
as Male Dance Partner
Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.
Elimination Dance
1998
Writer, Director
Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.
Sarabande
1997
as Max
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...
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1997
as Paul Heller
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...
Joe's So Mean to Josephine
1997
as Mike
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...
Never Met Picasso
1996
as Jerry
Still living at home with his avant-garde actress mother, constantly rejected by art schools, and without a lover, aspiring painter Andrew decides to ...
Dance Me Outside
1995
Writer
Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas...
When Night Is Falling
1995
as Timothy
Camille is a professor at a Protestant college and is in a long-term relationship Martin, a respected minister and fellow professor. When Camille meet...
Camilla
1994
as Security Guard
Freda Lopez, an aspiring musician, travels with her husband to the beautiful beaches of Georgia where she befriends Camilla, an odd and exotic elderly...
Exotica
1994
as Thomas
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, th...
Arrowhead
1994
as Ray Bud
A man claims to have found a dinosaur skeleton in a vacant lot next to his apartment building.
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
1993
as Concert Promoter
A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
1993
Screenplay
A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
Giant Steps
1992
as Real Estate Hucker
A boy with an alcoholic father befriends a jazz musician.
My Niagara
1992
as Cabel
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 ...
Blue
1992
Writer, Director
New carpet factory footage intercut with old porn creates a brief but telling glimpse into the human psyche.
The Adjuster
1991
as Tyler, the young censor
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.
Highway 61
1991
as Pokey Jones
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...
Highway 61
1991
Screenplay, Story
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...
Roadkill
1989
as Russel, the Serial Killer
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.
Roadkill
1989
Screenplay
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.