
John Waters
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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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Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Saturday Night Live

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Real Time with Bill Maher

RuPaul's Drag Race

Tony Awards

The Blacklist

Search Party

My Name Is Earl

The Daily Show

Frasier

Finding Your Roots

E! True Hollywood Story

SNL Digital Shorts

Chucky

Explained

Homicide: Life on the Street

21 Jump Street

Everybody's Live with John Mulaney

The Graham Norton Show

The New Yorker Presents

HBO First Look

The Simpsons

FEUD

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip

The Andy Warhol Diaries

Hairspray

Thinking XXX

Jackass Number Two

Hairspray

Family Album

Living with Chucky

Doc of Chucky

Seed of Chucky

Jackass 2.5

Pride

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

'Til Death Do Us Part
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