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Don McKellar
Known for: ActingDon 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.
Filmography 38
No Other Choice
+3
Screenplay 
Blindness
as Thief 
The Sympathizer
Creator 
Crimes of the Future
+9
as Wippet 
Slings & Arrows
as Darren Nichols 
eXistenZ
+3
as Yevgeny Nourish 
Zoom
+2
as Horowitz 
Where the Truth Lies
as Publishing Executive 
Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story
as Clarence Fines 
Clean
as Vernon 
The Red Violin
+1
Screenplay 
Target Number One
+2
as Norm 
The Grand Seduction
+6
Director 
Exotica
as Thomas 
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
as Concert Promoter 
When Night Is Falling
+2
as Timothy 
The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
+4
as Bernard Buckley 
The Middle Man
as Doctor 
The Adjuster
as Tyler, the young censor 
Treading Water
as Richard 
Lolz-ita
as Eric 
The Passion of Ayn Rand
as Alfred 
Leslie, My Name Is Evil
as Prosecutor 
Through Black Spruce
as Journalist 
Trigger
as Brian 
Last Night
as Patrick Wheeler 
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
+2
as Dietmar (voice) 
Three Days in Havana
+1
as Pepe 
Camilla
as Security Guard 
Blood Honey
+3
as Dr. Bert Morrison 
Childstar
as Rick Shille 
Meditation Park
+4
as Gabriel 
American Woman
+1
as Newscaster 1 (voice) 
The Event
as Matt Shapiro 
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
as Paul Heller 
Never Met Picasso
as Jerry 
Sea People
as Mr. Whittaker 
I'm Yours
as Phil