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A truly iconoclastic visionary, Jonathan Caouette has been acting and making films since he was eight years old. In 2004 he starred in, directed, and edited Tarnation, his feature debut. Executive produced by Gus Van Sant and John Cameron Mitchell, the film was widely heralded as a cinematic revolution. Part documentary, part narrative fiction, part home movie, and part acid trip, Tarnation charts a psychedelic whirlwind of snapshots, super-8 home movies, answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, snippets of 70s and 80s pop culture, and dramatic reenactments to create an epic portrait of an American family travesty. Premiering at the Sundance and Cannes film festivals, Tarnation won Best Documentary at the Los Angeles IFP/West Film Festival, The National Society of Film Critics Award, the Sutherland Trophy at the London Film Festival, and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. As a regional theater actor, Caouette portrayed a schizophrenic John the Baptist in Salome, a queer Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar, and both John the Baptist and Judas in Gospell. He has toured with the European company of the Rocky Horror Picture Show and the NYC 30th anniversary of Hair. Most recently, he starred in the feature film Fat Girls and can be seen in John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus. Caouette is currently directing All Tomorrow's Parties, a feature about the cult underground music festival, and is set to star as Michael, the troubled painter in the upcoming film Portland.

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Son of Renee Leblanc.

Grandson, and adoptive son, of Adolph Davis and Rosemary Davis.

Father of Josh Caouette.

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