John Waters
Directing
Born 1946-04-22
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
211 credits
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John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, writer, actor, and artist. He rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films, including Multiple Maniacs (1970), Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974). Waters wrote and directed the comedy film Hairspray (1988), which was later adapted into a hit Broadway musical and a 2007 musical film. Other films he has written and directed include Desperate Living (1977), Polyester (1981), Cry-Baby (1990), Serial Mom (1994), Pecker (1998), and Cecil B. Demented (2000). His films contain elements of post-modern comedy and surrealism.
As an actor, Waters has appeared in Sweet and Lowdown (1999), 'Til Death Do Us Part (2007), Mangus! (2011), Excision (2012), Suburban Gothic (2014), and has appeared in the Child's Play franchise with Seed of Chucky (2004) and third season of the television series Chucky (2024). He hosted and produced the television series John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You (2006). Throughout his career, Waters has often collaborated with actor and drag queen Divine and his regular cast of the Dreamlanders. More recently, he performs in his touring one-man show This Filthy World.
Waters also works as a visual artist and across different media, such as installations, photography, and sculpture. The audiobooks he narrated for his books Carsick and Mr. Know-It-All were nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 2015 and 2020, respectively. In 2018, Waters was named an officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in France. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2023.
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Filmography
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Acting
46 credits
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Simpsons
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Daily Show
The Blacklist
Late Show with David Letterman
Saturday Night Live
Frasier
The Graham Norton Show
RuPaul's Drag Race
The Colbert Report
Real Time with Bill Maher
The View
Tony Awards
Helluva Boss
Homicide: Life on the Street
My Name Is Earl
21 Jump Street
Clarence
Chucky
Search Party
Fish Hooks
Late Night with David Letterman
Explained
Jackass Number Two
Finding Your Roots
FEUD
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
Digman!
Seed of Chucky
Kevin
So Graham Norton
HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Inside Deep Throat
Indie Sex
The Andy Warhol Diaries
An American Crime
Welcome to Hollywood
I Love the '70s: Volume 2
Sweet and Lowdown
Liverspots and Astronots
Pride
Excision
Room Temperature
Directing
8 credits
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
Pink Flamingos
Polyester
Desperate Living
Cry-Baby
Hairspray
Serial Mom
A Dirty Shame
Other credits
5 credits
Writing
1 credit
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