John Cameron Mitchell
Acting
Born 1963-04-21
El Paso, Texas, USA
73 credits
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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
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Acting
51 credits
Law & Order
Late Night with Seth Meyers
MacGyver
The Good Fight
American Playhouse
The Sandman
Yellowjackets
The Twilight Zone
The Equalizer
Girls
Mozart in the Jungle
Freddy's Nightmares
City on Fire
Shortbus
Vinyl
Shrill
Indie Sex
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Joe vs Carole
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
The House of Venus Show
Girl 6
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
Band of the Hand
Book of Love
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
Daybreak
Dr. Jackie
Broadway: The Next Generation
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask: Nation of One
I Remember
Interior. Leather Bar.
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
Party Girl
Cockroach
Everybody Wants to Be Gen X
The Dreamer of Oz
Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig
Larry Kramer In Love & Anger
One More Saturday Night
The Stepford Children
Totally Gay!
AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex
Ron Forever
A Friendship in Vienna
Reclaim the Flag
Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
The Spark: The Origins of Pride
Directing
7 credits
Nurse Jackie
GLOW
Shortbus
Rabbit Hole
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment
Producing
6 credits
Shortbus
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Paying for It
Tarnation
Seraph
Untitled Candy Darling Biopic
Writing
5 credits
Shortbus
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask: Nation of One
Seraph
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