Don McKellar

About Don McKellar

Who is it?: Actor, Director, Producer
Birth Day: August 17, 1963
Birth Place:  Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Birth Sign: Virgo
Alma mater: University of Toronto
Spouse(s): Tracy Wright (m. 2010; d. 2010)

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Don McKellar was born on August 17, 1963 in  Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is Actor, Director, Producer. Don McKellar was born on August 17, 1963 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and director, known for Last Night (1998), Blindness (2008) and Le violon rouge (1998). He was previously married to Tracy Wright.
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Biography/Timeline

1989

McKellar made his first screen appearance in 1989 in Bruce McDonald's film Roadkill, for which he also wrote the screenplay. McKellar's work on Roadkill earned him Genie Award nominations for best supporting actor and best Screenwriter, attracting the attention of many in Canada. Roadkill also won the Toronto-Citytv Award for best Canadian feature.

1991

Since his entry into Canadian cinema, McKellar has also been involved in numerous projects. He appeared in Atom Egoyan's films The Adjuster (1991) and Exotica (1994), the latter of which earned him the Genie for best supporting actor. McKellar collaborated with François Girard, authoring the screenplays for his films Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1992), and the Academy Award winning (Best Original Score) The Red Violin (1998), in which McKellar starred alongside Samuel L. Jackson. He also appeared alongside Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh in David Cronenberg's 1999 film eXistenZ.

1998

McKellar has emerged as a filmmaker in his own right; his directorial debut, Last Night (1998), garnered impressive critical acclaim, winning the Prix de la Jeunesse at the Cannes Film Festival and the Claude Jutra Award at the Genies. In 2001, he played the role of Oliver Tapscrew in the TV children's drama series I Was a Rat. His second film, Childstar, opened in 2004 at the Toronto International Film Festival to enthusiastic reviews.

2004

McKellar also starred in the animated sitcom Odd Job Jack as the titular hero, Jack Ryder, which ran for four seasons between 2004 and 2007 on The Comedy Network.

2006

In 2006, he appeared in Ken Finkleman's miniseries At The Hotel. In June 2006 he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical for The Drowsy Chaperone. He received a Gemini Award nomination for his role as socialist Politician Clarence Fines in Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story.

2008

McKellar hosted the CBC Radio One series High Definition. He co-starred in and wrote the 2008 screen adaptation of José Saramago's 1995 novel Blindness.

2010

McKellar married his longtime partner, Canadian Actress Tracy Wright, on January 3, 2010. Wright died from cancer on June 22, 2010.

2011

McKellar has appeared in all three seasons of television's Slings & Arrows, as Darren Nichols, a theatre Director. The show is co-written by Bob Martin, who collaborated with McKellar on the musical The Drowsy Chaperone. Martin and McKellar also cocreated the Canadian television sitcom Michael, Tuesdays and Thursdays, scheduled to debut on CBC Television in fall 2011.

2016

In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada "for his contributions to Canadian culture as an actor, Writer and director".