John Cameron Mitchell

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

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Birthday

1963-04-21 (62 years old)

Place of Birth

El Paso, Texas, United States

John Cameron Mitchell

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 musici...

Acting

1986

1986

1990

Book of Love

as Floyd

1998

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

as Hedwig Robinson/Tommy Gnosis

2014

2003

2023

1988

A Friendship in Vienna

as Tommi Lowberg

1989

Misplaced

as Jacek

1993

Daybreak

as Lennie

2016

-

Heaven Above Rowen

as Promise (voice)

1997

David Searching

as Man with Fruit

1984

The Roommate

as Calvin Fitch

1999

2017

1996

Girl 6

as Rob

2015

Danny Says

as Self

2006

Shortbus

as Sextra (one of the participants in the orgy sequence)

1990

2025

2025

Production

2006

Shortbus

as Producer

2006

Shortbus

as Director

2006

Shortbus

as Screenplay

2010

Rabbit Hole

as Director

2001

2013

Seraph

as Writer

2013

Interior. Leather Bar.

as Story Consultant

2023

xXPonyBoyDerekXx

as Executive Producer

2003

Tarnation

as Executive Producer

-

Untitled Candy Darling Biopic

as Executive Producer

2010

2010

Lady Grey London

as Director

2025

Paying for It

as Executive Producer

2013

Seraph

as Producer

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