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. 존 카메론 미첼(1963년생, El Paso, Texas, USA) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 헤드윅, John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask: Nation of One, 공모 지대가 있으며, 그 외에도 로 앤 오더, 레이트 나이트 위드 세스 마이어스, 샌드맨, American Playhouse, 맥가이버, 굿 파이트, 옐로우재킷, The Equalizer, 걸스, 환상특급(1985), 모차르트 인 더 정글, Freddy's Nightmares 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. 특히 2026년에는 Cockroach에도 참여해서 활동중이다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2026년 Heaven Above Rowen에서 Promise (voice) 역을 맡았다. 2026년 Cockroach에서 James 역을 맡았다. 2025년 Everybody Wants to Be Gen X에 출연했다.