Brian Stokes Mitchell Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Brian Stokes Mitchell (born October 31, 1957) is an American stage, film and television actor and singer. A powerful baritone, he has been one of the central leading men of the Broadway theatre since the early 1990s. He won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 2000 for his performance in Kiss Me, Kate.
Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Musical, Isabelle Stevenson Award, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actor, Visiting Production, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical
Music Groups
JD & The Straight Shot
Movies
The Prince of Egypt, Jumping the Broom, Call Me Claus, Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf, Ruby's Bucket of Blood, Double Platinum, Roots: The Next Generations, Cooking with B. Smith and Friends: Main Dishes, Health Quiz: Vol. 4, The Best of the Tony Awards: The Plays
TV Shows
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, New Kids on the Block, Kid 'n Play, The California Raisin Show, Trapper John, M.D., Generations, James Bond Jr.
Star Sign
Scorpio
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My family's very, very mixed. I am, I guess, a kind of melting pot person.
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[T]hey didn't know what to do with me. 'He looks black but kinda white, maybe Hispanic.' And they don't want somebody to think of that when they've got their thirty seconds and $6 million on the line. They're going for very specific markets. In a sense, that is a form of racism, and it is still practiced.
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I'm one of the few lucky actors in the world. I've never waited tables. I never pumped gas. I've always earned a living. I never had to borrow from my parents. I was the first in our family to own a new car.
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Fact
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He was inducted into the 2016 American Theatre Hall of Fame.
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He was nominated for a 2001 Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Actor in a Play for "King Hedley II" on Broadway in New York City.
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It has been announced that he will play Cervantes and Don Quixote in an all-new staging of "Man of La Mancha", opposite Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Aldonza/Dulcinea. [2002]
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Currently co-starring on Broadway with Patti Lupone and Sherie Rene Scott in the new musical version of the classic Pedro Almodovar film "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown." It is set to open officially on Novermber 4. [October 2010]
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Went to high school with Annette Bening.
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Born in Seattle, he grew up the youngest of four children in Navy bases in Guam and the Philippines. His father George, a former Tuskegee airman during WWII, was an electronics engineer; mother Lillian Stokes a policewoman and school administrator.
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Trained and first acted at the San Diego Junior Theater, making his debut in a production of "Godspell" in 1974 at the Old Globe.
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Mitchell's ethnic background is German, Scottish, African, and Native American.
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Was a regular cast member on the medical drama series "Trapper John, M.D." with Pernell Roberts as a cocky intern. He also composed the musical scores for some of the show's episodes.
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He found work in the mid to late 1970s with the Twelfth Night Repertory Company as both an actor and resident composer.
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Began taking piano lessons at age six.
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Added "Stokes" to his name because there were too many Brian Mitchells running around. Stokes is his mother's maiden name.
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Was nominated for a 1998 Tony for "Best Actor in a Musical" for his portrayal of "Coalhouse Walker" opposite Audra McDonald.
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Won Broadway's 2000 Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical) for a revival of Cole Porter's "Kiss Me, Kate." He has been Tony-nominated three other times: twice as Best Actor (Musical), in 1998 for portraying Colehouse Walker in "Ragtime" and in 2003 for playing the Cervantes/Don Quixote character in a revival of "Man of La Mancha;" and once as Best Actor (Play), in 2001 for August Wilson's "King Hedley II."
$1.5 Million
