John Cameron Mitchell

Q: Has John Cameron Mitchell won any awards?

Yes, John Cameron Mitchell won a Tony Award for Best Musical for 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch.' He has also received nominations for various other awards throughout his career.

Q: What was John Cameron Mitchell's first film?

Mitchell's first feature film was 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch,' released in 2001, which he also directed and co-wrote.

Q: What is John Cameron Mitchell's most successful film?

'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' is considered John Cameron Mitchell's most successful film, both critically and culturally, leading to a successful stage adaptation and a dedicated fan base.

Q: Is John Cameron Mitchell involved in any other creative fields?

Yes, in addition to acting, John Cameron Mitchell is also a playwright and director, with significant contributions to both film and theatre.

Q: What is John Cameron Mitchell's estimated net worth?

John Cameron Mitchell's estimated net worth is around $2 million, reflecting his successful career in film and theatre.

Q: What are some milestones in John Cameron Mitchell's filmography?

Key milestones in John Cameron Mitchell's filmography include 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch,' 'Shortbus,' and his recent role in 'Joe vs Carole,' showcasing his versatility as an artist.

Q: What is known about John Cameron Mitchell's personal life?

John Cameron Mitchell is known to be private about his personal life. He was previously married to David Marshall Grant and has one child.

Known for

Joe vs Carole (2022)

IMDb 6.2 / 10

2022 / Comedy, Crime

When Carole Baskin, a big cat enthusiast, learns that when fellow exotic animal lover Joe "Exotic" Schreibvogel is breeding and using his big cats...

How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017)

IMDb 5.7 / 10

2017 / Comedy, Music / 98mins

In 1970s London, a teenage outsider named Enn falls in love with a rebellious alien girl named Zan, who has come to Earth for...

Name

John Cameron Mitchell

Height

5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Born

21 April 1973, El Paso, Texas, USA

Spouses

David Marshall Grant (2002–2004)

Children

1, names not publicly known

Parents

Jacqueline Mitchell, Keith Mitchell

Estimated Net Worth

$2 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie Cockroach A black transgender man plans to exchange sex for top surgery money with an older gay man until his night...	James	Not rated
2025	Movie Everybody Wants to Be Gen X Some of the generation’s most iconic creators reflect on how the cohort once synonymous with slacking came to leave such...	Self	Not rated
2025	Movie Reclaim the Flag An examination of how the American flag can be reclaimed as a symbol of unity for all Americans, with a...	Self	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2025	Movie Lisbon A broke queer man agrees to an intimate meeting with an older man for cash, only to be confronted with...	Unknown character	Not rated
2023	Movie AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex The complex and revolutionary music and lyrics of Marc Bolan and T. Rex, the glam rock powerhouse behind “Bang a...	Self	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2023	Movie Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open Nicole Kidman has worked with a host of top directors in a varied career including Gus Van Sant, Jane Campion,...	Self (interview)	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2023	TV City on Fire A college student is shot in Central Park on July 4, 2003. The investigation connects a series of mysterious citywide...	Amory	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2022	TV Dr. Jackie Failed actress Jackie Beat has finally become a psychotherapist. Using role-playing, primal scream therapy, ink-blot tests and even puppets, she...	John Cameron Mitchell	TMDB 3.3 / 10
2022	TV The Sandman After years of imprisonment, Morpheus — the King of Dreams — embarks on a journey across worlds to find what...	Hal Carter	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2022	Movie I Am More Night falls on the city, and More′s splendid and daring show begins. More, a drag queen at a club in...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2022	Movie Impresario With vintage footage, interviews, and Marc Huestis' own energy and humor at the center, Impresario is an homage to a...	Unknown character	Not rated
2022	TV Joe vs Carole When Carole Baskin, a big cat enthusiast, learns that when fellow exotic animal lover Joe "Exotic" Schreibvogel is breeding and...	Joe 'Exotic' Schreibvogel	TMDB 4.1 / 10
2021	TV Yellowjackets This equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama tells the saga of a team of wildly talented...	Caligula	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2021	Movie John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask: Nation of One Far from Earth, tensions escalate between a feuding astronaut couple (Gnosis and ZanFagna). A video transmission from John Cameron Mitchell...	John Cameron Mitchell	Not rated
2020	Movie Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2020	Movie Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp The final volume of Time Warp digs deep into what makes us laugh over and over again as we reveal...	Self	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2020	TV Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time A celebration of the greatest cult movies of all time, from The Rocky Horror Picture Show to The Big Lebowski.	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2019	Movie The Spark: The Origins of Pride A story of the LGBT struggle from the 1960s to the present, after the Stonewall riot sparked the militant action...	Self	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2019	TV Shrill Annie Easton is a fat young woman who wants to change her life — but not her body. She struggles...	Gabe	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2017	Movie How to Talk to Girls at Parties In 1970s London, a teenage outsider named Enn falls in love with a rebellious alien girl named Zan, who has...	Punk (uncredited)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2017	TV The Good Fight Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam...	Felix Staples	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2016	Movie My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea Dash and his best friend Assaf are preparing for another year at Tides High School muckraking on behalf of their...	Brent Daniels (voice)	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2016	TV Vinyl In 1970s New York, jaded record exec Richie Finestra tries to resurrect his failing label and fractured personal life while...	Andy Warhol	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2015	Movie Larry Kramer In Love & Anger From the onset of the AIDS epidemic, author Larry Kramer emerged as a fiery activist, an Old Testament-style prophet full...	Himself	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2015	Movie Danny Says DANNY SAYS is a documentary unveiling the amazing journey of Danny Fields. Fields has played a pivotal role in music...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2014	Movie The Hooping Life Learn the origins and rise of modern day hula-hooping through eight extraordinary stories of hoop devotees who have embraced it...	Himself	TMDB 8.7 / 10
2014	TV Late Night with Seth Meyers Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live's" longest serving anchor on the show's wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2014	TV Mozart in the Jungle In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" and Gelsey Kirkland's "Dancing on my Grave" comes an insider’s look into...	Egon	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2012	TV Girls The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art...	David Pressler-Goings	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2007	TV Indie Sex Indie Sex is a 2007 American television documentary film directed by Lesli Klainberg.	Self	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2007	Movie Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer This documentary explores the life of jazz singer Anita O'Day. As a child, Anita had a tonsillectomy, during which her...	Himself	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2007	Movie Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus' A look at the unusual process used in the making of the film Shortbus (2006) featuring interviews, behind the scenes...	Himself	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2006	Movie Shortbus In post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled, personally, romantically, and sexually, at Shortbus,...	Sextra (one of the participants in the orgy sequence)	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2006	Movie Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig One record producer, the creators of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and top indie rock artists come together to create...	Self	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2006	Movie Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema A chronological look at films by, for, or about gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to 2005,...	Self	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2006	Movie Apparition of the Eternal Church The movie captures the responses of 31 authors, musicians, filmmakers and dancers to Olivier Messiaen's monumental organ work "Apparition of...	Self	Not rated
2005	TV The House of Venus Show Created by Canadian filmmaker Mark Kenneth Woods and co-produced by Michael Venus, the first season of the world's first LGBT...	Self	TMDB 3.3 / 10
2003	Movie Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig Documentary about the creation of the stage musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and its subsequent film adaptation.	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2003	Movie Totally Gay! Totally Gay! is a 2003 television special on VH1 that discusses gay pop culture in the United States. The content...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2003	Movie Lance Loud!: A Death in An American Family Eldest son Lance, of the Loud family profiled on PBS in 1973, became the first openly gay man on television...	Self (uncredited)	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2001	Movie Hedwig and the Angry Inch Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she...	Hedwig	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1999	Movie I Remember Set and shot chronologically in natural light over one hour at dusk, I REMEMBER materialized out of this sense of...	Joe	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1998	Movie Hedwig and the Angry Inch The audience is watching genderqueer rock singer Hedwig Robinson's musical act as she follows rockstar Tommy Gnosis' (much more successful)...	Hedwig Robinson/Tommy Gnosis	Not rated
1997	Movie David Searching The story of a young gay man's search to find himself. David is a young, gay aspiring documentary filmmaker and...	Man with Fruit	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1996	TV Party Girl At night Mary is a party girl and by day she works at the New York Public Library with her...	Derrick	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1996	Movie Girl 6 A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.	Rob	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1993	Movie Daybreak When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in...	Lennie	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1990	Movie The Dreamer of Oz The film is the biography of Frank Baum, the children's book author and creator of the fantasy world Oz.	Albert	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1990	TV Law & Order In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects...	Eddie	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1990	Movie Book of Love John Twiller takes down his high school yearbook and begins to reminiscence about that time he first moved into the...	Floyd	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1989	Movie Misplaced The story of a strong-minded Polish mother, Halina Nowak who desperately wants her talented son, Jacek to have a life...	Jacek	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1988	TV Freddy's Nightmares The evil, sinister killer of the "Nightmare On Elm Street" movies, Freddy Krueger, hosts this show, where each week, he...	Bryan Ross	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1988	Movie A Friendship in Vienna Inge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that Inge is Jewish and Lise...	Tommi Lowberg	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1987	Movie The Stepford Children Steven and Laura Harding, along with their kids David and Mary, have moved to the quiet community of Stepford. Steven...	Kenny	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1986	Movie One More Saturday Night The problems faced by both teenagers and adults in a small Minnesota town who are trying to get dates for...	Teenager #2	TMDB 4.2 / 10
1986	Movie Band of the Hand An Indian Vietnam veteran trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami.	J.L.	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1985	TV MacGyver He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits...	Aaron	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1985	TV The Twilight Zone This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells...	Tom (segment "The Last Defender of Camelot")	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1985	TV The Equalizer Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting...	Ed Donahue	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1984	Movie The Roommate Set in 1952, this tells of two young men who are polar opposites being assigned to the same dorm room...	Calvin Fitch	TMDB 7.0 / 10
TBA	Movie Broadway: The Next Generation A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.	Self	Not rated
TBA	Movie Ron Forever One arrest away from foster care, a ten-year-old with mental superpowers must choose to repeat her mom's path of self-destruction...	Ron	Not rated
TBA	Movie Heaven Above Rowen The mental unraveling of Rowen, a religious leader faced with questions of identity and meaning as a prophesied revelation approaches.	Promise (voice)	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2025	Movie Paying for It In the late '90s, Chester and Sonny are a long-term, committed, romantic couple. When Sonny wants to redefine their relationship,...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2021	Movie John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask: Nation of One Far from Earth, tensions escalate between a feuding astronaut couple (Gnosis and ZanFagna). A video transmission from John Cameron Mitchell...	Writer Writing	Not rated
2021	Movie John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask: Nation of One Far from Earth, tensions escalate between a feuding astronaut couple (Gnosis and ZanFagna). A video transmission from John Cameron Mitchell...	Musician Sound	Not rated
2021	Movie John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask: Nation of One Far from Earth, tensions escalate between a feuding astronaut couple (Gnosis and ZanFagna). A video transmission from John Cameron Mitchell...	Vocals Sound	Not rated
2017	Movie How to Talk to Girls at Parties In 1970s London, a teenage outsider named Enn falls in love with a rebellious alien girl named Zan, who has...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2017	Movie How to Talk to Girls at Parties In 1970s London, a teenage outsider named Enn falls in love with a rebellious alien girl named Zan, who has...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2017	Movie How to Talk to Girls at Parties In 1970s London, a teenage outsider named Enn falls in love with a rebellious alien girl named Zan, who has...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2017	TV GLOW In 1980s LA, a crew of misfits reinvent themselves as the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.	Director Directing	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2013	Movie Interior. Leather Bar. Filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews re-imagine the lost 40 minutes from "Cruising" as a starting point to a broader...	Story Consultant Writing	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2013	Movie Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment Sigur Rós have given a dozen film makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2013	Movie Seraph A boy's childhood scars his life.	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2013	Movie Seraph A boy's childhood scars his life.	Producer Production	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2010	Movie Rabbit Hole Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.	Director Directing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2009	TV Nurse Jackie Every day is a matter of life and death in a hectic New York City hospital, but for Nurse Jackie...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2006	Movie Shortbus In post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled, personally, romantically, and sexually, at Shortbus,...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2006	Movie Shortbus In post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled, personally, romantically, and sexually, at Shortbus,...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2006	Movie Shortbus In post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled, personally, romantically, and sexually, at Shortbus,...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2003	Movie Tarnation Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette's documentary on growing up with his schizophrenic mother -- a mixture of snapshots, Super-8, answering machine messages,...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2001	Movie Hedwig and the Angry Inch Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she...	Musical Writing	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2001	Movie Hedwig and the Angry Inch Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2001	Movie Hedwig and the Angry Inch Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.4 / 10
TBA	Movie Untitled Candy Darling Biopic Candy’s rise from childhood in Long Island beauty pageantry to her years alongside Holly Woodlawn and Jackie Curtis as a...	Executive Producer Production	Not rated

Cockroach

2026

Everybody Wants to Be Gen X

2025

Reclaim the Flag

2025 / TMDB 5.5

Lisbon

2025

AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex

2023 / TMDB 7.8

Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open

2023 / TMDB 7.8

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John Cameron Mitchell is best known for 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch,' 'Shortbus,' and 'Rabbit Hole.' These films showcase his range as both an actor and director.

Has John Cameron Mitchell won any awards?

What was John Cameron Mitchell's first film?

What is John Cameron Mitchell's most successful film?

Is John Cameron Mitchell involved in any other creative fields?

What is John Cameron Mitchell's estimated net worth?

What are some milestones in John Cameron Mitchell's filmography?

What is known about John Cameron Mitchell's personal life?

John Cameron Mitchell

Known for

Joe vs Carole (2022)

How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017)

Personal details

Credits

Latest Release

Cockroach

Everybody Wants to Be Gen X

Reclaim the Flag

Lisbon

AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex

Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open

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