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McKellar, Don

Actor/director/producer perhaps now better known for his work in film. He was born in Toronto, Ontario , August 19, 1963 and was raised in a suburb of the city.

He began performing in high school, playing characters roles in the annual Shakespeare production before, in the mid-80s, turning to the city's burgeoning Fringe Movement theatre scene. He co-founded the Augusta Company with Tracy Wright and Daniel Brooks ; the company created several works (ie: The Book of Rejection).

In 1991, however, McKellar began to taste the international recognition which awaited him with his performance in the film Highway 61 and then again in 1993-94 with his involvement in the films Thirty-Two Short Films about Glenn Gould (which he co-wrote) and Exotica (in which he starred).

Since, most of his energies have gone into mass media with 1998-99 representing a watershed year in which he starred in and/or wrote and/or directed several important films and television works (Twitch City, Le Violon Rouge, eXistenZ, Last Night).

However, he did manage to perform on stage in January, 1999, in Honest Ed! A Bargain Musical, a work about Ed Mirvish and in November, 1999, he appeared in his play Wedding Bells (co-written with Lisa Lambert, Greg Morrison and Bob Martin) at Theatre Passe Muraille . In 2001, The Drowsy Chaperone, which he co-created, ran in Toronto. A revised version has since been produced on Broadway.

In October 1999, a retrospective of his film and television work was mounted at the American Museum of the Moving Image.

(Additional information provided by Pierre Karch)

Last updated 2008-07-04