John Cameron Mitchell
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 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
Actor
as promise (voice)
as Self (interview)
as Amory
as John Cameron Mitchell
as Hal Carter
as Joe 'Exotic' Schreibvogel
as John Cameron Mitchell
as Caligula
as Self
as Gabe
as Self
as Punk (uncredited)
as Felix Staples
as Brent Daniels (voice)
as Andy Warhol
as Himself
as Self
as Himself
as Egon
as David Pressler-Goings
as Himself
as Self
as Sextra (one of the participants in the orgy sequence)
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self (uncredited)
as Hedwig
as Joe
as Hedwig Robinson/Tommy Gnosis
as Man with Fruit
as Rob
as Derrick
as Lennie
as Albert
as Floyd
as Eddie
as Jacek
as Tommi Lowberg
as Bryan Ross
as Kenny
as Teenager #2
as J.L.
as Aaron
as Tom
as Ed Donahue
as Calvin Fitch
Writer
as Screenplay
as Writer
as Story Consultant
as Writer
as Screenplay
as Screenplay
as Musical
Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer