John Cameron Mitchell

January 5, 2024
Stage Actor

Quick Facts

John Cameron Mitchell
Full Name John Cameron Mitchell
Occupation Stage Actor
Date Of Birth Apr 21, 1963(1963-04-21)
Age 61
Birthplace El Paso
Country United States
Birth City Texas
Horoscope Aries

John Cameron Mitchell Biography

Name John Cameron Mitchell
Birthday Apr 21
Birth Year 1963
Place Of Birth El Paso
Home Town Texas
Birth Country United States
Birth Sign Aries
Parents Joan Cameron Mitchel, John H. Mitchell
Siblings Colin Mitchell

John Cameron Mitchell is one of the most popular and richest Stage Actor who was born on April 21, 1963 in El Paso, Texas, United States. Actor on stage and in television as well as writer and director who earned Drama Desk nominations for his performances on The Secret Garden, Hello Again as well as The Destiny of Me. He’s perhaps most well-known for his roles in The Broadway and movie versions of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

He also directed Rabbit Hole, a 2010 film starring He directed Rabbit Hole, a 2010 film that starred Nicole Kidman…

Mitchell was born in El Paso, Texas and was raised on a variety of army bases in Kansas, Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Germany. His father, John Henderson Mitchell was a U.S. Army major general and the U.S. Commander of West Berlin from 1984-1988, and his mother, Joan Cameron Mitchell, was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, who immigrated to the United States as a young art teacher. He had an older brother who died in childbirth and three younger brothers, Christopher Lloyd, Colin Mackenzie, and Samuel Latham, who died in 1977 when Mitchell was in eighth grade. He was raised devoutly Roman Catholic and attended Catholic schools in both Scotland and the US, including St. Xavier High School (Junction City, Kansas) and St. Pius X High School (Albuquerque, New Mexico), graduating from the latter in 1981. His first stage role was the Virgin Mary in a Nativity musical staged at a Scottish Benedictine boys’ boarding school when he was 11 years old. He studied theater at Northwestern University from 1981-85, although he did not graduate.

In 1985, aged 22, Mitchell came out as gay to his family and friends. He came out publicly in a New York Times profile in 1992. His subsequent writing has often explored sexuality and gender. He is a Radical Faerie, which was influential in Mitchell’s making of Shortbus. Along with Shortbus stars PJ DeBoy and Paul Dawson and performance artists Amber Martin and Angela Di Carlo, he is a co-founder and DJ of the long-running New York City monthly party “Mattachine”.

The place he was raised is El Paso, Texas and was raised with his brother Colin.

John Cameron Mitchell Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Stage Actor
House Living in own house.

John Cameron Mitchell is one of the richest Stage Actor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Cameron Mitchell 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a theater student in the theater department at Northwestern University during the 1980s.

He was a guest on a variety of television shows, such as MacGyver along with Law & Order.

John Cameron Mitchell (born April 21, 1963) is an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, and director.

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Three years later, he directed and starred in the feature-film version of the play for which he won Best Director at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. His performance was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. Both the play and the film were critical hits and have spawned cult followings around the world.

Facts & Trivia

John Ranked on the list of most popular Stage Actor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. John Cameron Mitchell celebrates birthday on April 21 of every year.

After the success of Hedwig, Mitchell expressed an interest in writing, directing, and producing a film that incorporated explicit sex in a naturalistic and thoughtful way, without using “stars”. After three years of talent searches, improvizational workshops, and production, Shortbus premiered in May 2006 at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. The film garnered many awards, at venues such as the Athens, Gijon, and Zurich International Film Festivals.

Is Hedwig a true story?

Hedwig is based on a real woman The duo continued to play at SqueezeBox, and soon, a character based on Mitchell’s childhood babysitter, a woman named Helga, evolved. “She was a German army wife but also a prostitute,” Mitchell, an army brat whose father was a general, told the BBC.

How old is John Cameron Mitchell?

59 years (April 21, 1963)

What movies was John Cameron Mitchell in?

Appears in

What is Hedwig's gender?

Mitchell himself admits that Hedwig is “ a boy … forced into an uncomfortable gender reassignment that he never wanted.” Truthfully, Hedwig’s story is not a trans story at all, but the story of a gay man’s fears of being emasculated in a society that already mocks and scorns him for his perceived femininity.

Was Hedwig a girl or boy?

Harry’s owl, Hedwig, is a beautiful Snowy Owl. [Call of Snowy Owl] Although Hedwig is portrayed as a female, “she” is actually a pure white, male Snowy Owl. Female Snowies are dusky brown. True to life, though, Snowy Owls are awake and active during the day. Ron’s family has an owl, too – a Great Gray Owl.

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