Don McKellar
Birthday: 1963-08-17
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Don McKellar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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eXistenZ
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marke...
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Exotica
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Fran...
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I Was a Rat
A little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy is co...
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Blindness
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to...
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When Night Is Falling
Camille is a professor at a Protestant college and is in a long-term relationship with Martin, a res...
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Highway 61
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who ne...
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Where the Truth Lies
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team....
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The Event
Manhattan prosecutor Nick is charged with looking into the untimely death of city resident Matt, a m...
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Waydowntown
Four young office workers have a bet going to see who can last the longest without going outside. In...
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Childstar
An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious s...
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The Red Violin
300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 168...
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Roadkill
A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up f...
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Last Night
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke o...
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Clean
After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside he...
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Cooking With Stella
Inside the Canadian diplomatic compound in New Delhi, a mischievous cook affects the lives of her em...
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Trigger
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the co...
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Rub & Tug
The new manager of a full-body massage parlor must make sure his employees do not grant sexual favor...
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Joe's So Mean to Josephine
Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When she fi...
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Monkey Warfare
Two ex-revolutionaries living underground have their lives turned upside down by a sexy young radica...
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Treading Water
Mica is born smelling of fish that soap and doctors can't remove. Problems increase starting school ...
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The Art of Woo
Alessa Woo (Lee) is an ambitious art dealer who meets her match in gifted painter Ben Crowchild (Bea...
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This Might Be Good
A festival is a concentration of hope. Audiences hungering for something startingly new, famously fa...
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Camilla
Freda Lopez, an aspiring musician, travels with her husband to the beautiful beaches of Georgia wher...
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Public Domain
A dark, wryly funny film about a game show run by smug pseudo-intellectuals that awards money to the...
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Redacted
A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people thro...
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Through Black Spruce
The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and send...
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Waiting for Ishtar
A conversation about guilty pleasures turns into one man's quest to find others on a library waiting...
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Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acc...
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Sarabande
The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have ...
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Crimes of the Future
With his partner, a celebrity performance artist publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs ...
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Trudeau
This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott T...
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies
In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultima...
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Three Days in Havana
A businessman gets caught up in an assassination plot when he travels to Cuba....
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American Woman
A political activist helps take care of a group of America’s most wanted fugitives, including a well...
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Subconscious Password
In this short animation, Oscar®-winning director Chris Landreth uses a common social gaffe - forgett...
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Leslie, My Name Is Evil
A young jury member becomes infatuated with Leslie, a troubled teenager and former homecoming prince...
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Arrowhead
A man claims to have found a dinosaur skeleton in a vacant lot next to his apartment building....
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The Adjuster
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords....
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My Niagara
Shadowed by the death of her mother, Julie Kumagai's life with her widower father is marked by paine...
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Elimination Dance
Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event....
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Window Horses
Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but s...
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Zoom
A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each liv...
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Lolz-ita
A naïve but internet savvy 22 year old navigates the reality of her boring, small town Canadian life...
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Your Mother and I
Johnna's dad changed the world. Or so he says. Whilst Johnna and her dad are talking, they can't see...
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Meditation Park
A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds anothe...
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Blood Honey
Tortured by the memory of a childhood trauma, a woman returns after a decade to her family's fly-in ...
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Never Met Picasso
Still living at home with his avant-garde actress mother, constantly rejected by art schools, and wi...
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Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadi...
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I'm Yours
A road movie romance that conjures a heady concoction of free love and end of the world conspiracy....
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The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces o...
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The Middle Man
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a communit...
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The Passion of Ayn Rand
Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close t...
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Target Number One
Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong rea...
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Sea People
At 14, Amanda is a perfect swimmer and a great student. When the factory where his father works clos...
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; ...
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The Occupant of the Room
Based on the short ghost story of the same name by Algernon Blackwood from 1909, The Occupant of the...
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Nash the Slash Rises Again!
Nash The Slash was deliciously surreal, verging on demented. A mummy wrapped in surgical bandages, a...
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