David Hewlett

David Hewlett

Information
Birthday	April 18, 1968
Birth Place	Redhill, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Role
Portrays	Tabor Calchek
Seasons	Season 1 Season 2

David Ian Hewlett (born April 18th 1968) is a British-born Canadian actor, writer, director and voice actor best known all over the world for his role as Dr. Meredith 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 movie, "Pin" or "Pin: A Plastic Nightmare" as well as the 1991 science-fiction movie, "Scanners II: The New Order".

Hewlett had a recurring role in Dark Matter (TV Series) as Tabor Calchek, a merchant who also serves as the team's handler.

Early Life[]

Hewlett was born in Redhill, Surrey, England, United Kingdom and moved with his family to Canada when he was four years old with the Hewletts settling in or around Toronto.

Hewlett got his first computer in his mid-teens and became a self-described "computer nerd".

While in St. George's College Choir School for Boys in Toronto, Hewlett met American-born and future sci-fi director, Vincenzo Natali and the two began creating movies together while forming a strong friendship that remains to this day with Hewlett going to appear in the majority of movies that Natali has directed, prime examples being the 1997 psychological horror movie, "Cube" and the 2009 science-fiction horror film, "Splice".

Hewlett later dropped out of high school in his senior year to pursue careers in both acting and computing, beginning his acting career in 1984 when he was only sixteen years old, making his debut appearance in the 1980s TV series, "The Edison Twins" with his acting career continuing to this day.

Personal Life[]

Hewlett was previously married to Canadian actress Soo Garay with the two divorcing in 2004.

In 2008, Hewlett married his long-time girlfriend, film producer Jane Loughman who like Hewlett is British-born.

The couple have a son, Sebastian "Baz" Flynn Loughman Hewlett who was born during the filming of the Stargate Atlantis Season 4 finale episode, "The Last Man" and a dog named "Mars" with Mars appearing in Hewlett's directional debut movie, "A Dog's Breakfast".

Career[]

In addition to being an actor and voice actor, Hewlett has in recent years embarked on directing and writing various films, his directional debut being the 2006 dark comedy, "A Dog's Breakfast" which he also starred in.

The movie itself also starred Hewlett's younger sister, Kate Hewlett, his Stargate Atlantis alumni/fellow actress, Rachel Luttrel, Christopher Judge who is best known for playing Teal'c on Stargate Atlantis's parent series, "Stargate SG-1" and Irish TV presenter Amanda Byram.

In recent years, Hewlett has also written and directed two movies, "Rage of the Yeti" which Hewlett also appeared in and which was released in 2011.

Hewlett's latest movie, "Debug" which he wrote and directed was released in 2014. Unlike "A Dog's Breakfast" and "Rage of the Yeti", Hewlett did not appear on-screen in any kind of role whatsoever.

Hewlett is also a huge fan of the long-running British science fiction series, Doctor Who and his favorite Doctor is Tom Baker.

The show was what originally sparked his love of the science fiction genre with Hewlett's own dreams of working in science fiction later becoming a reality when he was ultimately cast as Rodney McKay in Stargate SG-1 and later Stargate Atlantis with the role of Dr. McKay becoming Hewlett's best known role to date and also giving him international recognition among sci fi fans.

Filmography[]

Movies
Title	Year	Role
The Dark Side	1987	Chuckie
Pin	1988	Leon Linden
The Penthouse	1989	Joe Dobson
Dead Meat	1989
Where the Heart Is	1990	Jimmy
Deep Sleep	1990	Terry
Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel	1991	Deadpan
Scanners II: The New Order	1991	David Kellum
A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong	1992	Walter Jenkins
The First Circle	1992	'Ruska' Rostislav
Black Death	1992	Nyles Chapman
The Boys of St. Vincent: 15 Years Later	1992	Steven Lunney (age 25)
Split Images	1992	Gary Hammond
Blood Brothers	1993	Detective Trayne
Joe's Wedding	1996	Rob Fitzgerald
Bad Day on the Block	1997	Andrew
Cube	1997	Worth
On the 2nd Day of Christmas	1997	Mel
Elevated	1997	Hank
Clutch	1998	Martyn
Milkman	1998	Martin / Soldier
Nightworld: Survivor	1999	Doc
The Life Before This	1999	Nick
Blind	1999	The Victim
Amateur Night	1999	D.J.
Autoerotica	2000	Gord
Chasing Cain	2001	Bud
And Never Let Her Go	2001	Gerry Capano
The Triangle	2001	Gus Gruber
Century Hotel	2001	Michael
Treed Murray	2001	Murray
Cypher	2002	Virgil C. Dunn
Father Lefty	2002	Father Gregory
Nothing	2003	Dave
Foolproof	2003	Lawrence Yeager
Friday Night	2003	Roger
Boa vs. Python	2004	Emmett
Ice Men	2004	Bryan
Darklight	2004	Anders Raeborne
A Dog's Breakfast	2007	Patrick
Helen	2009	Frank
Splice	2009	William Barlow
The Whistleblower	2010	Fred Murray
Rise of the Planet of the Apes	2011	Hunsiker
Time Machine: Rise of the Morlocks	2011	Dr. James Radnor
Rage of the Yeti	2011	Mills
Haunter	2013	Olivia's Father
The Shape of Water	2017	Fleming
Hewlogram	2017	Hewlogram
Lucky Day	2019	Derrek Blarney
Midway	2019	Husband Kimmel
Lie Exposed	2019	Brian
All About Who You Know	2019	Michael
Turkey Drop	2019	Ron
NOC - Non-Official Cover	2020	Martin Kerry
Nightmare Alley	TBA	Dr. Elrood
The Swearing Jar	TBA	Bill

Television
Title	Year	Role
The Edison Twins	1984	Howard
Night Heat	1987
Friday's Curse	1988	Cal
My Secret Identity	1988	Rock
T and T	1988-1989	Ronnie / Detective Jones
The Campbells	1990	Ned Kane / Captain Henderson
Rin Tin Tin: K-9 Cop	1991-1992	The Strangler
Forever Knight	1992	Matthew Reed
Beyond Reality	1992-1993	Tom
Shining Time Station	1993	Ted Typo
Sweating Bullets	1993	Gleason
Monster Force	1994	Lance McGruder
Street Legal	1988-1994	Tim Woolrich / Dave Lister
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues	1993-1996	Dr. Nicholas (Nickie) Elder
Twice in a Lifetime	1999	Mr. Green
Traders	1996-2000	Grant Jansky
ER	2001	Mr. Schudy
Mutant X	2003	Hector Freimark
Without a Trace	2004	Fred Watkins
The District	2004	Frederick
Stargate SG-1	2001-2007	Dr. Rodney McKay
Sanctuary	2007	Larry Tolson
Stargate: Atlantis	2004-2009	Dr. Meredith Rodney McKay
The Closer	2009	Special Agent Jerry Moore
Hellcats	2010-2011	Dr. Thurton Egan
SGU Stargate Universe	2011	Dr. Rodney McKay
Urban Legends	2011	Narrator
Darknet	2013	Lewis
State of Syn	2013	Aslin Kane
The Stanley Dynamic	2014	Glenn Cooper
Suits	2016	Nathan Burns
Dark Matter	2015-2016	Tabor Calchek
Incorporated	2016 - 2017	Chad Peterson
Murdoch Mysteries	2016 - 2017	Dilbert Dilton
Warigami	2019	Banta
Hudson & Rex	2019	Nelson Dwyer
Private Eyes	2021	Earl Baer
Clarice	2021	Anthony Herman
Departure	2021	Bill Ratch
Guillermo del Toro Presents 10 After Midnight	2022

Video Games
Title	Year	Role
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter	2002	Additional Voices
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty	2014	Mudokons
Caretaker Sacrifice	2016	Narrator
Caretaker Retribution	2016	Narrator
The Alpha Device	2018	Narrator
The Last Worker	2021	Josef Jüngle

Writer
Title	Year
Nothing	2003
A Dog's Breakfast	2007
Debug	2014

Director
Title	Year
A Dog's Breakfast	2007
Rage of the Yeti	2011
Debug	2014

Self
Title	Year	Role
Made in Canada, Volume 1: Best of the CFC	2002	Himself
Preview to Atlantis	2004	Himself / Rodney McKay
From Stargate to Atlantis: Sci Fi Lowdown	2004	Himself / Rodney McKay
Sci Fi Lowdown: Behind the Stargate - Secrets Revealed	2005	Himself / Rodney McKay
Sci Fi Inside: Sci Fi Friday	2005	Himself / Rodney McKay
06 Spaceys	2006	Himself
Sci Fi Inside: Stargate SG-1 200th Episode	2006	Himself
07 Spaceys	2007	Himself
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams	2007	Himself
FedCon XIX: Beyond Imagination	2010	Himself
Waking the Green Tiger	2011	Narrator
FANomenon	2013	Himself
The Fantasy Makers	2017	Narrator
The Science Fiction Makers	2020	Narrator

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

This is the second time David Hewlett has worked with both Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie as all three previously worked on the Canadian/American sci-fi TV series, "Stargate SG-1" and its spin-offs, "Stargate Atlantis" and "Stargate Universe". David first appeared in "Stargate SG-1" with a recurring role in the show's fifth, sixth, eighth and tenth seasons. He later joined "Stargate Atlantis" and for five seasons, was a member of the main cast and like Michael Shanks (Dr. Daniel Jackson on Stargate SG-1) was given the credit "And". Hewlett also appeared in "Stargate Universe" in the Season 2 episode, "Seizure". Mallozzi and Mullie first served as writers, creating various episodes for Stargate SG-1 before both were promoted to Executive Producers.

David previously worked with Jodelle Ferland in an episode of Stargate Atlantis called "Harmony".