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Aliases: John Mitchell

Gender: generic.gender.3

Place of birth: El Paso, Texas, United States

Homepage: https://www.cameo.com/jcmitch

Movie Involvements: 44

TV Involvements: 11


Most Famous Work

Biography

American writer, director, actor. Mitchell, the son of a U.S. Army general and a Scottish mother, grew up on various army bases, including Berlin; later the family lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he attended a Catholic school. Since the mid-1980s, he has worked as a theatre actor and director in New York City and played small roles in television and film productions. Among other things, he directed a play by Tennessee Williams. From 1991, he appeared in the original Broadway production of Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon's musical adaptation of The Secret Garden, which won several Tony Awards. In the early 1990s, together with musician Stephen Trask, he developed the character of Hedwig, a transgender rock musician who grew up in East Berlin, for performances in the New York drag bar Squeezebox. This led to the successful Off-Broadway musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 1998, which won two Obie Awards, and three years later to the film version of the musical, again with himself in the title role. The film premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Director's and Audience Awards, and the play won the 2001 Lambda Literary Award. At the 2002 Chlotrudis Awards, he won the prize for best leading actor. At the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) in 2001, the film was shown in the ‘PANORAMA’ section and won the Teddy Award. In 2003, he produced the film Tarnation by Jonathan Caouette, which was honoured as best documentary film by the US National Society of Film Critics, among others. In 2004, Mitchell shot the music video for the Scissor Sisters' single Filthy/Gorgeous with stars from the New York drag scene. The clip was not shown on American MTV due to its explicit sexual depictions. IMDb minii bio by; yusufpiskin

Most Famous Work

Law & Order
Average
7

Law & Order

(1990) Eddie
The Good Fight
Average
8

The Good Fight

(2017) Felix Staples
MacGyver
Average
8

MacGyver

(1985) Aaron
Freddy's Nightmares
Average
7

Freddy's Nightmares

(1988) Bryan Ross
The Equalizer
Average
7

The Equalizer

(1985) Ed Donahue
The Sandman
Average
8

The Sandman

(2022) Hal Carter
Vinyl
Average
7

Vinyl

(2016) Andy Warhol
Yellowjackets
Average
8

Yellowjackets

(2021) Caligula

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Self
Self (interview)
Amory
2022 John Cameron Mitchell
Hal Carter
N/A
Joe 'Exotic' Schreibvogel
2021 Caligula
John Cameron Mitchell
2020 Self
Self
2019 Self
Gabe
2017 N/A
Punk (uncredited)
Felix Staples
2016 Brent Daniels (voice)
Andy Warhol
2015 Himself
Self
2014 Himself
Egon
2012 David Pressler-Goings
2007 Self
Himself
Himself
2006 Sextra (one of the participants in the orgy sequence)
Self
Self
2005 Self
2003 Self
Self
Self (uncredited)
2001 Hedwig
1999 Joe
1998 Hedwig Robinson/Tommy Gnosis
1997 Man with Fruit
1996 Derrick
Rob
1993 Lennie
1990 Albert
Eddie
Floyd
1989 Jacek
1988 Bryan Ross
Tommi Lowberg
1987 Kenny
1986 Teenager #2
J.L.
1985 Aaron
N/A
Ed Donahue
1984 Calvin Fitch
promise (voice)
Year Character Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
2023 Executive Producer
2017 Producer
2006 Producer
2003 Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Sound

Directing


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