Silas Weir Mitchell (actor)
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Silas Weir Mitchell is an American actor known for playing disturbing or unstable characters.
He has had recurring guest roles in 24 (as Eli Stram), My Name Is Earl (as Earl's ex-con friend Donny Jones), and Prison Break (as escapee Charles "Haywire" Patoshik). It is significant that in both Prison Break and My Name Is Earl he plays the role of a crazy prisoner. He also played the role of the keymaker in the movie Rat Race and also appears in The Whole Ten Yards. Mitchell also made an appearance on CSI: Miami and Boomtown.
On the DVD commentary for Prison Break he mentions he had previously auditioned on Prison Break for the role of Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell.
He will appear in the upcoming film A Fork in the Road alongside Jaime King.
