Mitchell Lichtenstein

{{Infobox person

| name = Mitchell Lichtenstein

| birth_name = Mitchell Wilson Lichtenstein

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|March 10, 1956}}

| education = Bennington College

| occupation = Actor

| father = Roy Lichtenstein

}}

Mitchell Wilson Lichtenstein (born March 10, 1956) is an American actor, writer, producer, and director.

Early life and education

The son of Isabel (née Wilson) and Roy Lichtenstein, he studied acting at Bennington College in Vermont.{{cite news| newspaper=The New York Times| title=Actor Finds That His Roles Walk on the Darker Side of Life| first=Jane| last=Julianelli| date=February 2, 1997| url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10F10F93C590C718CDDAB0894DF494D81| url-access=subscription}} His father is of Jewish background.

Career

Mitchell's first film role was in the 1983 film Lords of Discipline, filmed largely at Wellington College in the UK. In Ang Lee's film The Wedding Banquet (1993), Lichtenstein played the partner of a gay Taiwanese man living in the United States who is forced to marry by his parents.{{cite news| title=Romance: man to man| first=Tony| last=Herman| newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette| date=September 3, 1993| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=u1cNAAAAIBAJ&dq=mitchell%20lichtenstein&pg=3894%2C1238048}} Other film acting credits include Streamers, for which he and other members of the cast Guy Boyd, George Dzundza, David Alan Grier, Matthew Modine and Michael Wright were awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actor from the Venice Film Festival.{{cite web |title=Volpi Cup for Best Actor |url=http://carnivalofvenice.com/the-city/events-in-venice/venice-film-festival/awards-and-acknowledgements/volpi-cup/volpi-cup-for-best-actor?lang=en |website=Portale di Venezia | date=April 19, 2010 |access-date=March 7, 2021}}

He produced, wrote, and directed the 2007 black comedy horror film Teeth, about the pitfalls and power of a girl as a living example of the vagina dentata myth. The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival to positive reviews.{{cite news| newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle| title=Horror comedy 'Teeth' based on 'vagina dentata' myth| date=January 20, 2008| first=Reyhan| last=Harmanci| url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Horror-comedy-Teeth-based-on-vagina-dentata-3297845.php}}

His film Happy Tears premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2009.{{cite news| newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer| location=Manila| title=Demi Moore plays against sexy type| first=Deborah| last=Cole| date=February 12, 2009| url=http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20090212-188858/Demi-Moore-plays-against-sexy-type| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://archive.today/20090214213713/http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20090212-188858/Demi-Moore-plays-against-sexy-type| archive-date=February 14, 2009| df=mdy-all}} His film Angelica was selected to be screened in the Panorama section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.{{cite web| url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/panorama/pan-presse-detail_26582.html| title=Panorama 65th Berlinale| access-date=January 17, 2015| website=Berlinale}}