Silas Weir Mitchell Biography
A native of Philadelphia, Silas Weir Mitchell Nelson is an American character actor best known for Prison Break, a Fox television series. In addition, he is famous for his role as Monroe in the NBC television series Grimm as well as the recurring role of Donny Jones in My Name Is Earl.
Silas Weir Mitchell Age|Birthday
Mitchell was born on September 30, 1969. Therefore, he is 52 years old as of 2021 and celebrates his birthday on 30th September every year.
Silas Weir Mitchell Height|Weight
Mitchell’s height is 6 feet 3 inches (approximately 191 centimeters). Moreover, he weighs 104 kilograms.
Silas Weir Mitchell Family
Mitchell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is named after an ancestor, the 19th-century author, and physician. Moreover, he has three sisters and one brother. Moreover, his father was a stockbroker and his mother was a homemaker.
Silas Weir Mitchell Wife
Silas is married to KK Dodds. She is an actress known for her role as Susan Hollander in Prison Break. She is also famous for her as Smikins in Spider-Man. However, the two are really close though he is not outspoken about his wife.
Silas Weir Mitchell Education
For his elementary school years, Mitchell attended The Montgomery Country Day School, formerly in Gladwyne PA. He graduated from St. Pauls School in 1987, a college-preparatory boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire. Moreover, he majored in Theatre and Religion at Brown University in Rhode Island graduated in 1991. He also graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in acting program from the University of California San Diego. He spent some time in New York City acting in minor theatre productions after graduating from Brown.
Silas Weir Mitchell Career
The actor has had recurring guest roles in various television series. They include; My Name Is Earl as Earl’s ex-con friend Donny Jones. Also, Prison Break as escapee Charles “Haywire” Patoshik, as well as in 24 as Eli Stram. He mentions he had previously auditioned for the roles of Theodore “T-Bag” Bagwell and Lincoln Burrows on the DVD commentary for Prison Break. In addition, in both Prison Break and My Name Is Earl, he plays the role of an insane prison inmate. In the Whole Ten Yards, he appears as Yermo, and in Rat Race (2001) as Lloyd (The Hardware Store Guy).
Furthermore, the role of mentally unstable recurring character James Hogan on Cold Case is one of his notable roles. CSI: Miami, NY, Law & Order: SVU, Burn Notice as charming but unstable arms dealer Seymour, Dexter, Monk, Six Feet Under, X-Files, The Closer, and Boomtown are some of the shows he made appearances on. Moreover, on the show CSI in the season 6 episode “Room Service”, he appeared.
In addition, he made an appearance in the seventh and final season of the U.S. cop show The Shield in 2008.
Moreover, he appeared in Fork in the Road in 2009 alongside Jamie King, and in Halloween 2. He also appeared in Mental, Fox’s TV show, with Chris Vance,(also from Prison Break).
He was cast as Monroe in the NBC TV series Grimm in October 2011.
Filmography
From 1995 – 2000
1995 – Silk Stalkings as Peter Raymond Wicker, The Marshal as Willy
1996 – Playing Dangerous 2 as Gregor Taropol, The Big Easy as Lyle Tillman
1997 – Private Parts as Patient, Caroline in the City as Louis, Quicksilver Highway as Bryan Adams, Dark Skies as Convict, Sins of the Mind as Anderson, Julian Po as Stonewall
1997, 1998 – ER as Luis/Marcus Hainey
1997-2000 – NYPD as Tony/Luke
1998 – C-16:FBI, The Patriot as Pogue, Route 9 as Agent Paul Danning, Vengeance Unlimited as Captain Jesse Fisher
1999 – Bingo as Harry, The X-Files Douge, Inferno as Jesse Hogan, Absence of the Good as Jack Gaskin, The Pretender as Luke Carlo
2000 – Other Voices as Weeping Man, The Practice as Anthony Brickman, Nash Bridges as Roy McNair
From 2001 – 2005
2001 – Rat Race as Lloyd
2002 – The Agency, 24 Eli Stram, Ant as Bertrand, Johnson County war as Mitch Slaughter, Push Nevada as Ruhk, Ethan and Alan as Ethan, Birds of Prey as Syrus Waters (slick), Boomtown as Erik Sorenson
2003 – Six Feet Under as Dion Corelli, A Painted House as Jimmy Dale
2003- 2005- Cold Case as James Hogan
2004 – The Whole Ten Yards as Yermo, CSI: Miami as Ralph Durst, Crossing Jordan as Frank Jones/Alastair Dark, Life on Liberty Street as Derek
2005 – Heart of the Beholder as Lester, Medium as Deranged Husband, JAG as Reese Pardee, CSI: NY as David Scott, Detective as Robbins, Fathers, and Sons as Max, Strong Medicine as Wade
2005 – 2007 – Prison Break as Charles “Haywire” Patoshik
From 2005 – 2020
2005 – 2008 – My Name Is Earl as Donny Jones
2006 – The PTA, Monk as Drugstore Manager, Flags of Our Fathers as Lab Tech, The Phobic as Vladimir Narcijac, Without a Trace as Luke Seaver
2007 – The Gray Man as Albert Fish Jr., Dexter as Ken Olson, Crazy as Neal
2008 – 1% as Wild Man Sam, Prairie Fever as Frank, The Closer as Father Chris Donahue, The Shield as Father Morton, Burn Notice as Seymour
2009 – Waiting for Javetta, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Owen Walters, Mental as Vincent Martin, Halloween 2 as Chett Johns, Otis E as Stanley, Numb3rs as Darren Drew
2010 – Ticket Out as Levi, A Fork in the Road as Karl Rogers, The Killed, Heaven’s Rain as Ake, Circle as Bennett, Sami’s Cock, The Good Guys as Vic
2011 – The Mentalist as Arthur Coffey/Ralph Mercer
2011 – 2017 – Grimm as Monroe
2018 – The Amendment as Glenn
2020 – Paradise Lost as Boyd Suttree
Silas Weir Mitchell Net Worth
Mitchell’s net worth is $5 million.
