John Cameron Mitchell

Person · Open Library

Works

2

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Film & TV

El Paso, Texas, USA

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…

Known for

• Heaven Above Rowen — Promise (voice)2026
• Cockroach — James2026
• Lisbon2025
• Reclaim the Flag — Self2025
• Everybody Wants to Be Gen X — Self2025
• AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex — Self2023
• Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open — Self (interview)2023
• City on Fire — Amory2023
• Impresario2022
• I Am More2022

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

10,557

Total plays

167,445

John Cameron Mitchell (born April 21, 1963) is an American writer, actor, and director. Mitchell was born in El Paso, Texas. The son of a retired general in the U.S. Army, he grew up on army bases and in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he attended Catholic schools. His mother is from Scotland and emigrated to the United States as a young woman. He wrote Hedwig and the Angry Inch, an off-Broadway musical play about Hedwig, a transgendered rock musician chasing after an ex-lover who plagiarize

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Cameron

Family name

Mitchell

Gender

non-binary

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

El Paso

Occupation

director

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Award

Lambda Literary Award

Sport

speed skating

Image

John Cameron Mitchell.jpg

Height

1.70

Residence

New York City

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