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">Brian Stokes Mitchell (born October 31, 1957 in Seattle,
Washington)
is an American stage, film
and television actor. 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.
Mitchell was born in Seattle,
Washington, the youngest of four children of George Mitchell, an
electronics
engineer, and his wife Lillian, a school administrator. Mitchell grew up
at
various U.S. military bases overseas, where his father was a civilian
engineer
for the U.S. Navy. As a teenager, he lived in San Diego, California,
where he began acting in
school musicals.[1]
Mitchell's Broadway credits include Mail (1988), an all-black
revival
of George Gershwin's
Oh,
Kay! (1990), Jelly's Last
Jam (1992) based on the works of jazz artist Jelly
Roll Morton,
Kander and Ebb's Kiss
of the Spider Woman (1993), Ragtime (1998), the 1999 revival of Cole Porter's Kiss
Me, Kate, King
Hedley II (2001) and Man of La Mancha (2002). He appeared in
the City
Center Encores! productions of Jule Styne's
Do Re
Mi (1999), Bob
Merrill's Carnival! (2002), and Kismet (2006), and in the title role in
the 2002 Kennedy Center revival of Sweeney
Todd, part of Stephen Sondheim's
70th birthday
celebration.
Mitchell has a number of television and film credits, including the
role of
John Dolan in Roots:
The Next Generations (1979), and a seven-year stint as Dr. Jackpot Jackson on Trapper John,
M.D. from 1979 to 1986. He played recurring roles as Hilary
Banks' news
anchor fiancé Trevor Newsworthy/Collins on The
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and on Frasier as Dr. Frasier
Crane's neighbor and nemesis Cam Winston.
He supplied the singing voice of Jethro in the animated feature The Prince of
Egypt (1998). He is
scheduled to guest star in March 2010 in Ugly Betty as
Wilhelmina Slater's ex boyfriend,
Don.[2]
He has also done voice-overs for animation including Animaniacs,
Capitol Critters,
Tiny Toon
Adventures, A Pup Named
Scooby-Doo, The
Further Adventures of
SuperTed, Kid 'n
Play, The
New Kids on the Block, Scooby-Doo
and the Reluctant
Werewolf, Gravedale High,
Potsworth &
Co., Captain
Planet and the
Planeteers, The Tom
and Jerry Kids Show,
Yo
Yogi!, Fantastic Max,
Pound Puppies,
The
Addams Family,
California
Raisins, The Angry
Beavers, James
Bond Jr., Batman:
The Animated Series,
Paddington
Bear, Pinky and the
Brain, Defenders
of Dynatron City,
The
Hot Rod Dogs and Cool Car
Cats, Droopy,
Master Detective, Denver,
the Last Dinosaur, Mighty
Max, Don
Coyote & Sancho Panda and the two Flintstones animated movies Hollyrock-a-Bye
Baby and I Yabba-Dabba
Do!.
On June 9, 2005, Mitchell appeared in a concert version of the Rodgers and
Hammerstein musical South
Pacific, at Carnegie Hall. He
starred
as Emile, alongside Reba
McEntire as Nellie Forbush and Alec Baldwin as
Luther Billis. The production was
taped and telecast by PBS on April 26, 2006.
Prior to Ragtime, he had been known professionally as Brian
Mitchell.
He is currently the President of the Actor's Fund, and his debut CD Brian
Stokes Mitchell was released on June 6, 2006 on Playbill
Records. Mitchell has also performed
in a Christmas concert with the Mormon
Tabernacle Choir.