David Hewlett, the recent Spacey Award winner for "Favorite TV Character", portrays the likeably unlikeable Dr. Rodney McKay on Stargate Atlantis.

Hewlett's career began in his early teens, when he hooked up with a few of his fellow sci-fi-geek schoolmates and started acting in their early film efforts. Hewlett still runs with the same crowd of filmmakers, and he has collaborated with them on the feature films Cube, Get Down, Cypher, Foolproof and Nothing.

In addition to his role on Atlantis, highlights from Hewlett's television credits include guest-starring roles on ER, Without a Trace and The District, and recurring roles on Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Beyond Reality and the Canadian hit series Traders, for which he garnered two Gemini nominations.

Hewlett has also had leading roles in The Triangle, And Never Let Her Go, The Penthouse and the critically acclaimed The Boys of St. Vincent, as well as in two films for the SCI FI Channel: Darklight and Boa vs. Python.

On the big screen, Hewlett's credits include roles in Clutch and John Boorman's Where the Heart Is, as well as in such cult favorites as Scanners II, Desire and Hell at the Sunset Motel and Pin.

Hewlett's writing and directing debut, A Dog's Breakfast, was recently picked up for distribution by MGM and Twentieth Century Fox. A Dog's Breakfast is a bone-jarring, head-smacking, fiancé-bashing feature-length comedy about marriage, madness and murder. Hewlett stars along with fellow Atlantis cast members Paul McGillion (Dr. Carson Beckett) and Rachel Luttrell (Teyla Emmagan), as well as SG-1's Christopher Judge (Teal'c). The film also features his real-life sister, actress Kate Hewlett, and his wonder-dog, Mars. The film is slated for release in the fall of 2007.