Brian Stokes Mitchell Biography

Fast Facts

• Goes by his middle name, Stokes, to family and friends
• His father was an engineer with the Navy and the family spent time in the Philippines and Guam before settling in San Diego
• Went to high school with Annette Bening
• Worked with San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, the Junior Theater and the Civic Light Opera
• Met his wife, Allyson Tucker, when they were both cast in the 1990 Broadway production of Oh, Kay! Took a seven year break from Broadway after his son was born in 2003
• Released his self-titled debut album in 2006
• Before being cast as one of her dads on Glee, worked with Lea Michele when she was 8 in a Toronto production of Ragtime and again in the 2008 Hollywood Bowl production of Les Miserables