David Hewlett

David Hewlett will always be Dr. Rodney McKay to me, and that is a compliment. Born in England, raised in Canada, he built a career on playing brilliant, prickly, fast-talking characters, and the Stargate franchise let him turn that energy into a fan favorite. What I find more interesting is that he never stayed boxed in as just an actor. He writes and directs too, and his early work in the cult horror film Cube shows he was drawn to smart genre material long before Atlantis. That combination of sharp comic timing and behind-the-camera ambition is rarer than it looks, and it is why he endures with sci-fi audiences.

Name (English)

David Hewlett

Name (Japanese)

デヴィッド・ヒューレット

Reading

でゔぃっど・ひゅーれっと

Born

April 18, 1968 (age 58)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Monkey

Origin

Redhill, United Kingdom

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor / screenwriter / film director

University

Royal St. George's College

• Official sitehttp://www.davidhewlett-fr.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/davidihewlett/
• Xhttps://x.com/dhewlett
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Hewlett
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q353640

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.