John Cameron Mitchell
Acting • Born 1963-04-21
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
Filmography
62 credits
Band of the Hand
Movie • 1986
J.L.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Movie • 2001
Hedwig
One More Saturday Night
Movie • 1986
Teenager #2
Book of Love
Movie • 1990
Floyd
AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex
Movie • 2023
Self
Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig
Movie • 2003
Self
John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask: Nation of One
Movie • 2021
John Cameron Mitchell
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Movie • 1998
Hedwig Robinson/Tommy Gnosis
Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
Movie • 2007
Himself
Lance Loud!: A Death in An American Family
Movie • 2003
Self (uncredited)
Impresario
Movie • 2022
The Hooping Life
Movie • 2014
Himself
Totally Gay!
Movie • 2003
Self
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
Movie • 2023
Self (interview)
A Friendship in Vienna
Movie • 1988
Tommi Lowberg
Misplaced
Movie • 1989
Jacek
Daybreak
Movie • 1993
Lennie
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
Movie • 2020
Self
Broadway: The Next Generation
Movie
Self
Apparition of the Eternal Church
Movie • 2006
Self
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
Movie • 2006
Self
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
Movie • 2016
Brent Daniels (voice)
Heaven Above Rowen
Movie
Promise (voice)
Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
Movie • 2007
Himself
The Stepford Children
Movie • 1987
Kenny
David Searching
Movie • 1997
Man with Fruit
The Roommate
Movie • 1984
Calvin Fitch
I Remember
Movie • 1999
Joe
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Movie • 2017
Punk (uncredited)
Girl 6
Movie • 1996
Rob
Danny Says
Movie • 2015
Self
Shortbus
Movie • 2006
Sextra (one of the participants in the orgy sequence)
Larry Kramer In Love & Anger
Movie • 2015
Himself
The Spark: The Origins of Pride
Movie • 2019
Self
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
Movie • 2020
Self
The Dreamer of Oz
Movie • 1990
Albert
Lisbon
Movie • 2025
Ron Forever
Movie
Ron
Reclaim the Flag
Movie • 2025
Self
Cockroach
Movie • 2025
James
Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig
Movie • 2006
Self
Everybody Wants to Be Gen X
Movie • 2025
Self
I Am More
Movie • 2022
MacGyver
TV • 1985
Aaron
Freddy's Nightmares
TV • 1988
Bryan Ross
Joe vs Carole
TV • 2022
Joe 'Exotic' Schreibvogel
Party Girl
TV • 1996
Derrick
Dr. Jackie
TV • 2022
John Cameron Mitchell
Yellowjackets
TV • 2021
Caligula
Girls
TV • 2012
David Pressler-Goings
The House of Venus Show
TV • 2005
Self
Vinyl
TV • 2016
Andy Warhol
The Good Fight
TV • 2017
Felix Staples
City on Fire
TV • 2023
Amory
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Eddie
Indie Sex
TV • 2007
Self
Shrill
TV • 2019
Gabe
The Sandman
TV • 2022
Hal Carter
Mozart in the Jungle
TV • 2014
Egon
The Equalizer
TV • 1985
Ed Donahue
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
Tom (segment "The Last Defender of Camelot")
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self - Guest