RJ Mitte

Known for ActingBorn 1992-08-21Died 2026-10-12Jackson, Mississippi, USA

Roy Frank "RJ" Mitte III (August 21, 1992 – October 12, 2026) was an American actor and producer. Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, Mitte was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when he was three. He moved to Hollywood, Los Angeles, in 2006, and worked with a personal talent manager to find acting opportunities where his disability could educate viewers. After playing minor roles in sitcoms, he was cast in his breakthrough role as Walter White Jr. on the AMC neo-Western crime drama television series Breaking Bad (2008–2013). Mitte starred in the ABC Family teen and family drama television series Switched at Birth (2014) and the Netflix live-action/adult animated mixed media superhero television series The Guardians of Justice (2022). He appeared in films like Who's Driving Doug (2016), the thriller-drama Time Share (2018), the independent comedy Standing Up for Sunny (2019), the thriller The Oak Room (2020), and the coming-of-age drama Triumph (2021), the lattermost of which he executive produced. He advocated for cerebral palsy and other disabilities. He was a Screen Actors Guild spokesman for actors with disabilities, and a celebrity ambassador for United Cerebral Palsy. He received the SAG-AFTRA Harold Russell Award in 2013. Mitte passed away on October 12th, 2026, in Brownsville, TX, USA.Read more

Movies & web series

Breaking Bad

No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad

Westhampton

Switched at Birth

Hannah Montana

Now Apocalypse

Triumph

Talking Bad

Carol of the Bells

Love Me Dead

The Oak Room

Time Share

The Last Leg

This Close

River Runs Red

Weird Science 2: Strange Chemistry

The Guardians of Justice

Standing Up for Sunny

CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion

Who's Driving Doug

House of Last Things

Dixieland

The Tamron Hall Show

The Recall

Not a Game

The Unseen

All the Little Things We Kill

Cassi

One Eye Open

Stump

Escape from Paradise

Stigma: Raised in Hollywood

Butch Cassidy's Forgotten Outlaw

Somebody Like You

Talking to Strangers