Silas Weir Mitchell plays a Donny Jones in My Name is Earl. He was named after a famous 19th-century American "nerve specialist." Silas can do a variety of accents, including a English one. He is 6'3" tall.
He played an incarcerated inmate on "Prison Break" on September 12 2005, then 15 days later in "My Name Is Earl" he played a newly-released ex-convict.
Selected filmography[]
- A Fork in the Road (2008) (post-production)
- Otis E. (2008) (post-production)
- Circle (2008)
- Prairie Fever (2008)
- Crazy (2007/I)
- The Gray Man (2007)
- The Phobic (2006)
- Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
- McBride: Anybody Here Murder Marty? (2005)
- Fathers and Sons (2005)
- Detective (2005)
- Heart of the Beholder (2005)
- Life on Liberty Street (2004)
- The Whole Ten Yards (2004)
- A Painted House (2003)
- Ethan and Alan (2002)
- Johnson County War (2002)
- Ant (2002)
- Rat Race (2001)
- Other Voices (2000)
- Absence of the Good (1999)
- Inferno (1999)
- Bingo (1999)
- Route 9 (1998)
- The Patriot (1998)
- Julian Po (1997)
- Sins of the Mind (1997)
- Quicksilver Highway (1997)
- Playing Dangerous 2 (1996)
Television appearances[]
- "Grimm" - Eddie Monroe (2011 - )
- "My Name Is Earl" (2005-2008)
- "Prison Break" (2005-2007)
- "Without a Trace" (2006)
- "Monk" (2006)
- "The PTA" (2006)
- "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2005)
- "Strong Medicine" (2005)
- "Cold Case" (2003-2005)
- "CSI: NY" (2005)
- "JAG" (2005)
- "CSI: Miami" (2004)
- "Six Feet Under" (2003)
- "Push, Nevada" (2002)
- "24" (2002) (with Penny Balfour, Sean Astin and Raymond Cruz)
- "The Agency" (2002)
- "NYPD Blue" (1997-2000)
- "The Practice" (2000)
- "The X Files" (1999)
- "ER" (1997-1998)
- "Dark Skies" (1997)
- "Caroline in the City" (1997)
- "The Marshal" (1995)
- "Silk Stalkings" (1995)
Memorable quotes[]
"Well, I’ve always been interested in people who are fundamentally different on a psychological level. That is the fun of being an actor, to really explore the imaginative world. The farther you get away from your day-to-day life, the more fun it is. It wasn’t something I wanted to turn down, because it wasn’t the typical rapist or mean, run-of-the-mill bad guy. He was a bad guy who had a very specific disorder. The specificity was more interesting to me. He wasn’t your garden variety thug."