- Born
- Nickname
- Stokes
- Height6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
- Brian Stokes Mitchell was born on October 31, 1957 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Prince of Egypt (1998), tick, tick... BOOM! (2021) and Ghost Dad (1990). He has been married to Allyson Tucker since September 3, 1994. They have one child.
- SpouseAllyson Tucker(September 3, 1994 - present) (1 child)
- ChildrenEllington Mitchell
- ParentsGeorge MitchellLillian Mitchell
- Rich baritone voice
- Added "Stokes" to his name because there were too many Brian Mitchells running around. Stokes is his mother's maiden name.
- 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."
- 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.
- Mitchell's ethnic background is German, Scottish, African, and Native American.
- 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.
- 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.
- [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.
- My family's very, very mixed. I am, I guess, a kind of melting pot person.
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