David Hewlett Biography

David Ian Hewlett (born 18 April 1968) is an English-Canadian actor, writer, director, and voice actor best known for his role as Dr. Rodney McKay on the Canadian-American science fiction TV shows Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe.

Hewlett first gained fame for his role as Grant Jansky in the 1996 Canadian TV series, Traders and a year later, appeared as David Worth in the 1997 Canadian psychological horror film Cube. He later played bad-tempered airplane pilot, Douglas Hunsiker in the 2011 movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes. In addition, Hewlett is also known for his role in the 1988 horror film Pin and the 1991 science-fiction film Scanners II: The New Order.

Early life

Hewlett was born in Redhill, England, and moved with his family to Canada at the age of four. Hewlett got his first computer in his mid-teens and became a self-described "computer nerd". While attending high school in Toronto, he launched his acting career, starring in student films by Vincenzo Natali. He dropped out of high school in his senior year to pursue careers in acting and computing, beginning his acting career in 1984 at the age of sixteen.

Before his acting career took off, Hewlett ran Darkyl Media, a web site design firm, and also founded Fusefilm.com, a now defunct internet community for filmmakers.

Career

Hewlett has appeared in many low-budget horror films, such as The Darkside and the minor cult favourites Scanners II: The New Order and Pin. He also guest starred in several television series. In 1996, he landed one of his better-known roles, as Grant Jansky on Traders. In 1997, Hewlett worked again with Natali, starring in the critically acclaimed thriller Cube as Worth the architect, a role that saw the rise of his stardom due to the commercial success of the low budget Canadian film.

Hewlett, an avid science fiction fan, has been quoted saying that Doctor Who, the sci-fi program in his native Britain is what first sparked his love for the genre. And that he made science fiction when he was younger in Britain, on his 8 millimetre camera with friends. Hewlett had his early dreams of working in science fiction made into a reality, when he first had a four-episode guest role on the Canadian/American sci-fi series Stargate SG-1, as the Stargate expert Rodney McKay, which eventually grew into his starring role on Stargate Atlantis.

In 2007, Hewlett appeared as a guest star in the first episode of the TV series Sanctuary, a show produced by and starring Stargate actress Amanda Tapping. He played Larry Tolson - a patient suffering from a form of psychosis, who was shot and wounded before being taken into custody by police as a murder suspect.

In 2006, he wrote and directed A Dog's Breakfast starring himself, his sister Kate Hewlett, his dog Mars, and Stargate Atlantis costars Paul McGillion, Christopher Judge and Rachel Luttrell. In July 2006, Hewlett created a YouTube channel named Fanatical

In 2014, Hewlett directed the supernatural horror-science fiction film Debug with Jason Momoa, who starred alongside Hewlett in Stargate Atlantis. Jeananne Goossen and Adrian Holmes played the lead roles in the film.

In 2015, Hewlett stars in the Syfy TV series Dark Matter, which is based on the comic book of the same name. Playing a recurring role as Tabor Calchek, a merchant who also serves as the team's handler.

Personal life

Hewlett married actress Soo Garay in 2000, they divorced in 2004. He married Jane Loughman in 2008. Hewlett's sister is actress Kate Hewlett. She has appeared on Stargate Atlantis as Rodney McKay's sister, Jeannie Miller, multiple times in the series.

Filmography

Film
Year	Title	Role	Other notes
1987	The Darkside	Chuckie
1988	Pin	Leon
1989	The Penthouse	Joe Dobson	TV film
	Dead Meat
1990	Where the Heart Is	Jimmy
	Deep Sleep	Terry
	Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel	Deadpan Winchester
1991	Scanners II: The New Order	David Kellum
	The First Circle	'Ruska' Rostislav	TV film
1992	A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong	Walter Jenkins
	Quiet Killer	Myles Chapman
	Split Images	Gary Hammond	TV film
1993	Blood Brothers	Detective Trayne
	The Boys of St. Vincent: 15 Years Later	Steven Lunney age 25
1996	Joe's Wedding	Rob Fitzgerald
1997	Cube	David Worth, the Architect
	On the 2nd Day of Christmas	Mel	TV film
	Elevated	Hank	Short
	Bad Day on the Block	Andrew
1998	Clutch	Martyn
	Milkman	Martin/Soldier's	Voice
1999	Survivor	Le mdecin	TV film
	The Life Before This	Nick
	Blind	The Victim	Short
	Autoerotica	Gord	Short
	Amateur Night	D.J.	Short
2001	Chasing Cain	Bud
	And Never Let Her Go	Gerry Capano	TV film
	The Triangle	Gus Gruber	TV film
	Century Hotel	Michael
	Treed Murray	Murray	aka Get Down
2002	Made In Canada, Volume 1: Best of the CFC	Himself
	Cypher	Virgil Dunn
	Father Lefty	Father Gregory	TV film
2003	Nothing	Dave
	Foolproof	Lawrence Yeager
	Friday Night	Roger	Short
2004	Boa vs. Python	Dr. Steven Emmett
	Ice Men	Bryan
	Darklight	Anders Raeborne	TV film
2006	A Dog's Breakfast	Patrick
2008	Helen	Frank
2009	Splice	William Barlow
2010	The Whistleblower	Fred Murray
2011	Rise of the Planet of the Apes	Douglas Hunsiker
	Morlocks	Dr. Radnor	TV film
2013	Haunter	Olivia's Father
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	The Edison Twins	Howard	Episode: The Delinquent
1988	Friday the 13th: The Series	Cal	Episode: Tales of the Undead
1988	My Secret Identity	Rock	Episode: A Walk on the Wild Side
1988/1989	T. and T.	Detective Jones/Ronnie	Episodes: Black and White/Thicker Than White.
1990	The Campbells	Captain Henderson/ Ned Kane	Episodes: And in the Spring/Live by the Sword
1988-1994	Street Legal	Dave Lister / Tim Woolrich	Episodes: Murder by Video/Persons Living or Dead
1991-1992	Katts and Dog	The Strangler	Episodes: Relatively Speaking/Killing Ground/Boy Who Cried Wolf
1992	Forever Knight	Matthew Reed	Episode: Dead Air
1992-1993	Beyond Reality	Tom	Episode: A Kiss Is Just a Psi/The Loving Cup
1993	Shining Time Station	Ted Typo	Episodes: Stacy Cleans Up/The Mayor Runs for Re-Election
1993	Tropical Heat (AKA Sweating Bullets)	Gleason	Episode: Object of Desire
1993-1996	Kung Fu: The Legend Continues	Dr. Nicholas Elder	13 episodes
1994	Monster Force	Lance McGruder (voice)	13 episodes
1996-2000	Traders	Grant Jansky	73 episodes
2001	ER	Mr. Schudy	Episode: Never Say Never
2003	Mutant X	Hector Friemark	Episode: The Taking of Crows
2004	Without a Trace	Fred Watkins	Episode: Hawks and Handsaws
2004	The District	Frederick	Episode: Family Values
2001-2007	Stargate SG-1	Dr. Rodney McKay	7 episodes
2004-2009	Stargate: Atlantis	Dr. Rodney McKay	100 episodes
2009	The Closer	FBI Special Agent Jerry Moore	Episode: Walking Back the Cat
2010-2011	Hellcats	Dr. Eagan	Episode: Finish What We Started/Worried Baby Blues
2011	Stargate: Universe	Dr. Rodney McKay	Episode: Seizure
2013	Darknet	Lewis	Episode: Darknet 1
2013	State of Syn	Aslin Kane	6 episodes
2015	Dark Matter	Talbor Calchek	Recurring role
2015	Incorporated	Chad
2016	Suits	Nathan Burnes	Episode: Back on the Map
2016-	The Exorcist	The Demon	Voice
Writer
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Nothing		Story
2006	A Dog's Breakfast		Story
2014	Debug		Story
Director
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	A Dog's Breakfast	Also played Patrick
2011	Rage of the Yeti	Also played Mills
2014	Debug