John Waters
Biography
John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, writer, actor, and artist. He rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films, including Multiple Maniacs (1970), Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974). Waters wrote and directed the comedy film Hairspray (1988), which was later adapted into a hit Broadway musical and a 2007 musical film. Other films he has written and directed include Desperate Living (1977), Polyester (1981), Cry-Baby (1990), Serial Mom (1994), Pecker (1998), and Cecil B. Demented (2000). His films contain elements of post-modern comedy and surrealism.
As an actor, Waters has appeared in Sweet and Lowdown (1999), 'Til Death Do Us Part (2007), Mangus! (2011), Excision (2012), Suburban Gothic (2014), and has appeared in the Child's Play franchise with Seed of Chucky (2004) and third season of the television series Chucky (2024). He hosted and produced the television series John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You (2006). Throughout his career, Waters has often collaborated with actor and drag queen Divine and his regular cast of the Dreamlanders. More recently, he performs in his touring one-man show This Filthy World.
Waters also works as a visual artist and across different media, such as installations, photography, and sculpture. The audiobooks he narrated for his books Carsick and Mr. Know-It-All were nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 2015 and 2020, respectively. In 2018, Waters was named an officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in France. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2023.
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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1946-04-22
Place of birth
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Images
Cast
Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On
2006
0.00
Seed of Chucky
2004
5.50
Something Wild
1986
6.63
The Velvet Underground
2021
6.86
Thinking XXX
2004
5.49
Sweet and Lowdown
1999
6.78
Weiner
2016
7.33
The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels
2008
6.00
Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat
2002
4.80
Little Richard: I Am Everything
2023
6.60
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2022
7.25
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
2006
7.12
Jingle Bell Rocks!
2013
0.00
It Came from Kuchar
2009
7.00
Homer and Eddie
1989
5.52
This Filthy World
2006
7.80
Pink Flamingos
1972
6.18
The Book of Harth
2022
8.50
Divine Trash
2000
7.30
Mangus!
2011
1.00
Excision
2012
6.20
Obscene
2008
5.00
Yesterday's Tomorrows
1999
10.00
Mansome
2012
4.93
The Advocate for Fagdom
2011
5.30
Love Letter to Edie
1975
6.40
In Bad Taste
1999
8.00
Lynch/Oz
2023
7.20
A History of Sex
2003
5.40
That Man: Peter Berlin
2006
6.70
I Am Divine
2013
7.38
Uncle Bob
2010
5.00
Tell Me Iggy
2022
8.00
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007
5.80
Beautiful Darling
2010
6.00
God Save the Queens
1995
0.00
No Smoking in This Theater
1982
7.80
Living with Chucky
2022
6.60
Suburban Gothic
2014
5.50
These Amazing Shadows
2011
7.40
Fragments of Paradise
2022
6.50
The Junior Defenders
2007
3.00
Scala!!!
2024
7.80
At the Video Store
2019
10.00
All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame'
2005
7.40
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
6.00
Sylvester: Mighty Real
2002
0.00
Tab Hunter Confidential
2015
7.40
Each Time I Kill
2007
5.50
Wall Writers
2016
6.17
365 Day Project
2007
10.00
Blank City
2011
7.23
Hairspray
2007
6.67
TURA!
2024
0.00
Mansfield 66/67
2017
4.75
Jackass Number Two
2006
6.60
Whatever Happened to Gelitin
2016
2.00
Welcome to Hollywood
1998
3.60
Edith's Shopping Bag
1976
6.00
Abby Singer
2003
6.33
Growing Up with John Waters
1993
0.00
Way USA!
1988
0.00
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006
0.00
Gastronomic Getaway
1991
8.00
I, of the Cyclops
2006
0.00
Memories of Oz
2001
6.80
Sickies Making Films
2018
5.00
Inside Deep Throat
2005
6.42
It Came from... Baltimore!!
2005
7.20
Forever Hollywood
1999
8.00
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
1985
0.00
Mugworth
2018
0.00
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
2008
4.50
Coven of the Heathenites
2008
0.00
Jessica the Hippo
2007
0.00
Serial Mom
1994
6.70
The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo
2020
5.60
The Cockettes
2002
6.70
Anthem
1997
5.00
Pecker
1998
6.10
Cecil B. Demented
2000
6.40
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
2012
6.00
Hairspray
1988
6.81
Mondo Trasho
1969
5.12
Divine Waters
1985
7.20
Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes
2020
0.00
Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’
2019
0.00
Anarchy TV
1998
4.96
Don't Fall in Love with Yourself
2022
0.00
Doc of Chucky
2024
0.00
As Time Goes By
2024
0.00
It's Dorothy!
2025
0.00