John Cameron Mitchell
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.
Fotos
Películas (53)
Heaven Above Rowen
2026 · Promise (voice)
Cockroach
2026 · James
Everybody Wants to Be Gen X
2025 · Self
Reclaim the Flag
2025 · Self
Lisbon
2025
Paying for It
2025 · Executive Producer
I Love You, AllWays
2024 · Executive Music Producer
AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex
2023 · Self
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
2023 · Self (interview)
I Am More
2022
Impresario
2022
John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask: Nation of One
2021 · John Cameron Mitchell, Writer, Musician, Vocals
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
2020 · Self
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
2020 · Self
The Spark: The Origins of Pride
2019 · Self
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
2017 · Punk (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Producer, Songs
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
2016 · Brent Daniels (voice)
Larry Kramer In Love & Anger
2015 · Himself
Danny Says
2015 · Self
The Hooping Life
2014 · Himself
Interior. Leather Bar.
2013 · Story Consultant
Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment
2013 · Director
Seraph
2013 · Writer, Producer
Lady Dior Moscow
2011 · Original Concept
Rabbit Hole
2010 · Director
Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
2007 · Himself
Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
2007 · Himself
Shortbus
2006 · Sextra (one of the participants in the orgy sequence), Screenplay, Director, Producer
Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig
2006 · Self
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
2006 · Self
Apparition of the Eternal Church
2006 · Self
Tarnation
2003 · Executive Producer
Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig
2003 · Self
Totally Gay!
2003 · Self
Lance Loud!: A Death in An American Family
2003 · Self (uncredited)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2001 · Hedwig, Director, Musical, Writer
I Remember
1999 · Joe
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
1998 · Hedwig Robinson/Tommy Gnosis
David Searching
1997 · Man with Fruit
Girl 6
1996 · Rob
Daybreak
1993 · Lennie
The Dreamer of Oz
1990 · Albert
Book of Love
1990 · Floyd
Misplaced
1989 · Jacek
It's a Miserable Life
1988 · Byran Ross
A Friendship in Vienna
1988 · Tommi Lowberg
The Stepford Children
1987 · Kenny
One More Saturday Night
1986 · Teenager #2
Band of the Hand
1986 · J.L.
The Roommate
1984 · Calvin Fitch
Broadway: The Next Generation
· Self
Ron Forever
· Ron
Untitled Candy Darling Biopic
· Executive Producer
Series (23)
City on Fire
2023 · Amory
Dr. Jackie
2022 · John Cameron Mitchell
The Sandman
2022 · Hal Carter
Joe vs Carole
2022 · Joe 'Exotic' Schreibvogel
Yellowjackets
2021 · Caligula
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
2020 · Self
Shrill
2019 · Gabe
GLOW
2017 · Director
The Good Fight
2017 · Felix Staples
Vinyl
2016 · Andy Warhol
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self - Guest
Mozart in the Jungle
2014 · Egon
Girls
2012 · David Pressler-Goings
Nurse Jackie
2009 · Director
Indie Sex
2007 · Self
The House of Venus Show
2005 · Self
Party Girl
1996 · Derrick
La Ley y el Orden
1990 · Eddie
Freddy's Nightmares
1988 · Bryan Ross
MacGyver
1985 · Aaron
The Twilight Zone
1985 · Tom (segment "The Last Defender of Camelot")
The Equalizer
1985 · Ed Donahue
American Playhouse
1982 · Calvin Fitch, 1st Android (segment 'Teach 109'), Jacek Nowak