Silas Weir Mitchell (actor)

Silas Weir Mitchell is an American actor born in Philadelphia on September 30, 1969. She is known for her roles as Haywire in Prison Break and Monroe in the NBC series Grimm; He is especially known as a character actor who gives life to uncanny or unstable characters.

His birth name was Silas Weir Mitchell Neilson, and he was named after one of his family's ancestors, the 19th-century physician and writer Silas Weir Mitchell. St. in New Hampshire After graduating from St. Paul's School, he graduated from Brown University in 1991 with a degree in theater and religion. He started his career in New York theaters.

Television career

In the 2000s, he guest-starred on 24, Numb3rs, and various CSI series. Between 2005 and 2007, he played Charles "Haywire" Patoshik, a prisoner with severe psychological problems, in Prison Break. During the same period, he played a recurring character, Donny Jones, on My Name Is Earl. He also appeared in a recurring role on Burn Notice; In the cinema, he appeared in Rat Race (2001) and Rob Zombie's Halloween II (2009).

His longest-running work was Grimm, published between 2011 and 2017. In the series, she played Monroe, a wolf-like creature who lives in human form; The character was both the assistant and close friend of the leading detective. In the following years, he was a member of the cast of the TV series Paradise Lost, and from 2023 he starred in new seasons of Criminal Minds.