Silas Weir Mitchell is one of the most popular and richest TV Actor who was born on September 30, 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Actor best known for his starring television roles as Monroe in NBC’s Grimm and Charles Patoshik in FOX’s Prison Break. He has had recurring roles on the series 24 and My Name is Earl.
He appeared in the second installment of the revived Halloween horror film franchise directed by Rob Zombie.
He attended The Montgomery Country Day School, formerly in Gladwyne PA for his elementary school years; is a graduate of St. Paul’s School, a college-preparatory boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire, (1987); Brown University (1991) in Rhode Island, where he majored in Theatre and Religion; and the University of California San Diego, Master of Fine Arts program (1995). After graduating from Brown, he spent some time in New York City, acting in minor theatre productions.
Mitchell has had recurring guest roles in such television series as 24 as Eli Stram; Numb3rs; My Name Is Earl as Earl’s ex-con friend Donny Jones; and Prison Break as escapee Charles “Haywire” Patoshik. On the DVD commentary for Prison Break, he mentions he had previously auditioned for the roles of Theodore “T-Bag” Bagwell and Lincoln Burrows. Mitchell plays the role of an insane prison inmate in both Prison Break and My Name Is Earl. He also appears in Rat Race (2001) as Lloyd (The Hardware Store Guy), and in The Whole Ten Yards as Yermo.
He is named after the 19th century physician and author of the same name.
