Naylon Mitchell

About Naylon Mitchell

Brooklyn born Naylon Mitchell always enjoyed the art of Acting. He began his career in high school performing in community theater. While at Erasmus Hall high school he was taking acting class at the New Federal Theater studying under Director, Bill Duke. After graduating from Brooklyn College with a degree in Filmmaking, he decided to take on the challenge of working as a model and actor. He started booking print jobs and commercials. Eventually Naylon started working on Soap Operas with his first job on "The Guiding Light". While working at Joe Papp's, Public Theater in the East Village, Naylon formed some great friendships with many performers who while on their way are now professionals at the top of their game. He eventually landed a in role in 1983 as a busboy in "The Cotton Club" with Richard Gere. This turned out to be a 3 month job. Naylon won his first co-starring role with Mario Van Peebles in the 1985 film "The Delivery Boys". It was then time to take on the challenge of Los Angeles. So, in 1985 he made that move to further fulfill his dreams of working in film & TV. He worked continually on Soaps and Commercials until taking a hiatus from film, stage and TV in 1993. He started to pursue his other God Given talent as an artist/painter and eventually built his business as an artist exhibiting his work in Southern California. Some of his prints and posters were distributed by a number of large stores including Target, JC Penny's and Wal-Mart. Naylon relocated to Atlanta in 1995 and continued his art career. In 2008 after a milestone year he decided to resume his acting career. Naylon continues to work, train as Atlanta based talent. He prides himself on encouraging others with the many gifts and talents bestowed upon him....

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