Don McKellar

Birthday: 17 August 1963, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Height: 178 cm

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 eXistenZ (1999). He was previously married to Tracy Wright.

[on Matt Watts, the inspiration for the psychiatric patient in the comedy 'Michael: Tuesdays and Thu...Show more »

[on Matt Watts, the inspiration for the psychiatric patient in the comedy 'Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays'] All the phobias Matt would tell us about were so absurd they were funny. But we'd gradually come to realize that there was something really happening underneath. He'd tell me about his fear of small-talk, his fear of bridges, his fear of vomit. Yes, its a genuine problem. It's called 'emetophhobia' Show less «

[on filming Blindness (2008)] When you're being led around with a blindfold on and taken into quaran...Show more »

[on filming Blindness (2008)] When you're being led around with a blindfold on and taken into quarantine, you have to expose yourself in a certain way. You do everything you can to restore personal dignity, but that's not easy. You're constantly grasping at things that no longer make sense because they don't have the same context anymore. Show less «

It usually comes from some sort of alchemical combination of character and a vague sense of plot or ...Show more »

It usually comes from some sort of alchemical combination of character and a vague sense of plot or an idea or a theme, such as Last Night, character-plus-the-end-of-the-world. That's what it tends to be. I have never started out with a plot. I've thought of ideas, places and themes and character. Show less «

I'm an uptight Canadian white guy. I have issues with personal space and dirt. And what was really s...Show more »

I'm an uptight Canadian white guy. I have issues with personal space and dirt. And what was really surprising was how quickly that broke down once we started shooting 'Blindness' because we all had to learn how to be blind. Show less «

My role in Waydowntown (2000) is a small, unflattering part. I appear pasty and puffy like a ripe ca...Show more »

My role in Waydowntown (2000) is a small, unflattering part. I appear pasty and puffy like a ripe cadaver. It's the kind of character that might be viewed as a brave departure from an actor who wasn't already considered pasty and puffy. Show less «

An actor's life is very hard, always waiting for acceptance or rejection, but you never feel you're ...Show more »

An actor's life is very hard, always waiting for acceptance or rejection, but you never feel you're unemployed when you're writing. And, while writing and acting you can feel quite powerless, directing lets you feel you're in charge, even though it's often just an illusion. Show less «

It hasn't been acknowledged that television is so niche-specific now. That used to be an insult, I s...Show more »

It hasn't been acknowledged that television is so niche-specific now. That used to be an insult, I suppose. It used to be shunned - the idea of targeting a cult or finding a specific audience. But that's the way television is now. People watch channels just about cooking. Show less «

My character in Twitch City (1998) is a kind of caricature of a perception some people might have of...Show more »

My character in Twitch City (1998) is a kind of caricature of a perception some people might have of me. It's a joke at my expense. It's the way I feel some days when I'm at home feeling pathetic and full of self-loathing and just sitting in front of the television set eating cereal. Show less «

[on 'Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays'] We didn't want to make it a phobia-of-the-week. But the seria...Show more »

[on 'Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays'] We didn't want to make it a phobia-of-the-week. But the serial aspect, the relationship between this patient and his doctor, and the idea that they both seemed most at ease with each other, seemed like an idea that would carry it through. Show less «

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