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Apr 17, 2024 · The Canadian auteur behind Last Night on co-creating the postmodern Vietnam War show The Sympathizer with Oldboy’s Park Chan-wook, streaming in Canada now on Crave.
Actor: Last Night. Don McKellar was born on 17 August 1963 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and director, known for Last Night (1998), Blindness (2008) and The Red Violin (1998). He was previously married to Tracy Wright.
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Don McKellar was born on 17th August 1963 in Toronto, Canada. Beginning his career in the theatre at a young age McKellar co-founded Childs Play Theatre, and went on to study English and theatre at the University of Toronto.
- Early Years and Education
- Early Career
- Toronto New Wave Collaborations
- The Red Violin
- Twitch City
- 2000s Career Highlights
- Directing Career
- The Drowsy Chaperone
- Personal Life
- Significance
McKellar attended high school at Toronto’s Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute, where he developed his passion for acting in school productions. He worked as a clown at children’s birthday parties and became good friends with classmate Bob Martin, with whom he would collaborate throughout his career. He then studied English and theatre at the Univer...
McKellar co-founded the touring company Child’s Play Theatre, an endeavour that began his personal and professional relationship with actor Tracy Wright, who auditioned for a role in one of his plays. McKellar then co-founded the avant-garde theatre collective the Augusta Company with Wright and Daniel Brooks in 1989, which created a series of expe...
McKellar made his debut as a screenwriter and actor that same year in Roadkill (1989), the first feature film directed by Bruce McDonald. McKellar’s role as an offbeat serial killer was relatively small, but it earned him a Genie Award nomination for best performance in a supporting role, as well as for best screenplay. The film won the award for b...
McKellar collaborated with Girard on the screenplay for the ambitious international co-production The Red Violin, and appeared in a small role alongside a diverse cast that included Samuel L. Jackson, Greta Scacchi, Colm Feore and Sandra Oh. This sweeping epic won eight Genie Awards and nine Jutra Awards (now Prix Iris), including Best Film and Bes...
McKellar then wrote and starred in Twitch City (1998, 2000), which began as a six-part CBC TV series directed by McDonald. This satire about alienated Torontonians featured McKellar as a television-obsessed couch potato alongside Molly Parker and Daniel MacIvor as his long-suffering roommates. The series became a cult hit and was cited by Maclean’s...
McKellar continued to be a singular presence in high-profile Canadian productions, most notably David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999), Gary Burns’s waydowntown (2000), Thom Fitzgerald’s The Event (2003), Olivier Assayas’s Clean (2004), Reginald Harkema’s Monkey Warfare (2006), the TV series Slings and Arrows (2003–06) and Odd Job Jack (2003–07), and t...
McKellar’s most significant achievement in film was writing, directing and starring in his first feature film, Last Night (1998), for which he won the Prix de la Jeunesse at the Cannes Film Festival. The dark comedy envisioned the apocalypse at the dawn of the new millennium and featured a who’s who of the Canadian film scene, including Oh, Wright,...
In 2006, McKellar achieved a major success on Broadway with his Tony Award-winning book for The Drowsy Chaperone, a musical originally presented at the Toronto Fringe Festival in 1998.
McKellar married his long-time partner, Tracy Wright, in January of 2010 following her diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. The two remained together until her death that June.
Despite McKellar’s success, he has remained faithful to his Canadian independent roots. When asked by Maclean’swhy he didn’t move to Hollywood, he replied, “I thought trying to be a movie star in Canada was more courageous. But that was at a time when people believed in the idea of Canadian cinema, which I’m not sure is the case anymore.” In 2016, ...
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. Read More.
Don McKellar. Actor: Last Night. Don McKellar was born on 17 August 1963 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and director, known for Last Night (1998), Blindness (2008) and The Red Violin (1998). He was previously married to Tracy Wright.
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