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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 21, 1963
Place of Birth
El Paso, Texas, United States
Also Known As
- John Mitchell
John Cameron Mitchell
0.6 Popularity
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
Known For
0.0
Self
Everybody Wants to Be Gen X
2025
0.0
James
Cockroach
2025
10.0
Self
Reclaim the Flag
2025
0.0
Lisbon
2025
7.8
Self
AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex
2023
7.6
Self (interview)
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
2023
6.6
Amory
City on Fire
2023
3.3
John Cameron Mitchell
Dr. Jackie
2022
7.9
Hal Carter
The Sandman
2022
0.0
Impresario
2022
Credits
Everybody Wants to Be Gen X
as Self
2025
0.0
Cockroach
as James
2025
0.0
Reclaim the Flag
as Self
2025
10.0
Lisbon
2025
0.0
AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex
as Self
2023
7.8
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
as Self (interview)
2023
7.6
City on Fire
as Amory
2023
6.6
Dr. Jackie
as John Cameron Mitchell
2022
3.3
The Sandman
as Hal Carter
2022
7.9
Impresario
2022
0.0
Joe vs Carole
as Joe 'Exotic' Schreibvogel
2022
3.9
Yellowjackets
as Caligula
2021
7.5
John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask: Nation of One
as John Cameron Mitchell
2021
0.0
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
as Self
2020
6.5
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
as Self
2020
6.8
The Spark: The Origins of Pride
as Self
2019
6.2
Shrill
as Gabe
2019
6.3
Broadway: The Next Generation
as Self
2017
10.0
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
as Punk (uncredited)
2017
6.0
The Good Fight
as Felix Staples
2017
7.5
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
as Brent Daniels (voice)
2016
6.7
Vinyl
as Andy Warhol
2016
7.0
Larry Kramer In Love & Anger
as Himself
2015
6.3
Danny Says
as Self
2015
6.8
The Hooping Life
as Himself
2014
8.7
Mozart in the Jungle
as Egon
2014
7.5
Girls
as David Pressler-Goings
2012
6.3
Indie Sex
as Self
2007
5.1
Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
as Himself
2007
7.0
Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
as Himself
2007
6.5
Shortbus
as Sextra (one of the participants in the orgy sequence)
2006
6.2
Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig
as Self
2006
6.6
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
as Self
2006
5.4
Apparition of the Eternal Church
as Self
2006
0.0
The House of Venus Show
as Self
2005
1.7
Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig
as Self
2003
7.0
Totally Gay!
as Self
2003
7.5
Lance Loud!: A Death in An American Family
as Self (uncredited)
2003
2.7
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
as Hedwig
2001
7.4
🎬
I Remember
as Joe
1999
7.0
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
as Hedwig Robinson/Tommy Gnosis
1998
0.0
David Searching
as Man with Fruit
1997
4.9
🎬
Party Girl
as Derrick
1996
3.0
Girl 6
as Rob
1996
5.0
Daybreak
as Lennie
1993
5.1
The Dreamer of Oz
as Albert
1990
7.3
Law & Order
as Eddie
1990
7.4
Book of Love
as Floyd
1990
5.4
🎬
Misplaced
as Jacek
1989
0.0
Freddy's Nightmares
as Bryan Ross
1988
7.2
A Friendship in Vienna
as Tommi Lowberg
1988
6.0
The Stepford Children
as Kenny
1987
4.7
One More Saturday Night
as Teenager #2
1986
3.3
Band of the Hand
as J.L.
1986
6.2
MacGyver
as Aaron
1985
7.7
The Twilight Zone
as Tom (segment "The Last Defender of Camelot")
1985
7.8
The Equalizer
as Ed Donahue
1985
7.1
The Roommate
as Calvin Fitch
1984
0.0
Ron Forever
as Ron
N/A
0.0
Heaven Above Rowen
as Promise (voice)
N/A
0.0