John Cameron Mitchell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 21, 1963 (age 63)
- Birthplace
- El Paso, Texas, USA
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.
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Filmography
Broadway: The Next Generation
Movie · as Self
Ron Forever
Movie · as Ron
Heaven Above Rowen
Movie · as Promise (voice)
Cockroach
Movie · as James
Lisbon
Movie
Reclaim the Flag
Movie · as Self
Everybody Wants to Be Gen X
Movie · as Self
AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex
Movie · as Self
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
Movie · as Self (interview)
City on Fire
TV · as Amory · 8 eps
Impresario
Movie
I Am More
Movie
Joe vs Carole
TV · as Joe 'Exotic' Schreibvogel · 8 eps
Dr. Jackie
TV · as John Cameron Mitchell · 1 ep
The Sandman
TV · as Hal Carter · 3 eps
John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask: Nation of One
Movie · as John Cameron Mitchell
Yellowjackets
TV · as Caligula · 1 ep
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
Movie · as Self
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
Movie · as Self
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Spark: The Origins of Pride
Movie · as Self
Shrill
TV · as Gabe · 22 eps
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Movie · as Punk (uncredited)
The Good Fight
TV · as Felix Staples · 5 eps
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
Movie · as Brent Daniels (voice)
Vinyl
TV · as Andy Warhol · 3 eps
Danny Says
Movie · as Self
Larry Kramer In Love & Anger
Movie · as Himself
The Hooping Life
Movie · as Himself
Mozart in the Jungle
TV · as Egon · 5 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Girls
TV · as David Pressler-Goings · 5 eps
Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
Movie · as Himself
Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
Movie · as Himself
Indie Sex
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Apparition of the Eternal Church
Movie · as Self
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
Movie · as Self
Shortbus
Movie · as Sextra (one of the participants in the orgy sequence)
Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig
Movie · as Self
The House of Venus Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig
Movie · as Self
Lance Loud!: A Death in An American Family
Movie · as Self (uncredited)
Totally Gay!
Movie · as Self
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Movie · as Hedwig
I Remember
Movie · as Joe
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Movie · as Hedwig Robinson/Tommy Gnosis
David Searching
Movie · as Man with Fruit
Girl 6
Movie · as Rob
Party Girl
TV · as Derrick · 6 eps
Daybreak
Movie · as Lennie
Book of Love
Movie · as Floyd
The Dreamer of Oz
Movie · as Albert
Law & Order
TV · as Eddie · 1 ep
Misplaced
Movie · as Jacek
A Friendship in Vienna
Movie · as Tommi Lowberg
It's a Miserable Life
Movie · as Byran Ross
Freddy's Nightmares
TV · as Bryan Ross · 1 ep
The Stepford Children
Movie · as Kenny
Band of the Hand
Movie · as J.L.
One More Saturday Night
Movie · as Teenager #2
MacGyver
TV · as Aaron · 1 ep
The Equalizer
TV · as Ed Donahue · 1 ep
The Twilight Zone
TV · as Tom (segment "The Last Defender of Camelot") · 1 ep
The Roommate
Movie · as Calvin Fitch
American Playhouse
TV · as Calvin Fitch, 1st Android (segment 'Teach 109'), Jacek Nowak · 1 ep