Kel Mitchell

Kel Mitchell married his long-time girlfriend, Tyisha Hampton-Mitchell, in 2000 but the couple divorced in 2005 due to personal troubles. He maintains that he is close to two of his sisters, Kyra and Kenyatta.

In 2012, Kel got married to his then girlfriend, Asia Lee.

Kel also happens to be a motivational speaker and gives speeches at several schools and colleges and motivates students to follow their dreams.

Kel Mitchell was born in Chicago on 25th August 1978. He was inclined towards performing arts since early childhood, and he used to entertain the other kids through his mimics and other antics in the school. His parents saw the talent in him and supported him to follow his dreams to become an actor.

Kel Mitchell started taking acting seriously by the age of 12, when he was accepted into the ETA Creative Arts Foundation, which nurtured young actors like him and made something out of them. In his early theatrical productions, which took place in his home city of Chicago, he enticed the audiences with his mesmerizing performances in plays such as ‘Kasimu and the Coconut Palm’ and ‘Dirt’. However, no performance of him would get him as famous as his role in ‘Eden’, in a show at Victory Gardens Theatre.

One of the prominent talent agents was sitting in the crowd and immediately got in touch with him. All this while Kel was 14 years old, and he got the chance to fly to Florida to become a part of a show on popular kid’s channel Nickelodeon. Thousands of kids were present there in the auditions and Kel beat everyone for the role, which would later change his life.

The show was named ‘All That’ and Kel remained a part of the show from its beginning in 1994 to 1999. His pairing with Kenan Thompson, his co-star on the show was so popular that they were cast together for several other projects such as a spin-off to ‘All That’ titled ‘Kenan and Kel’ and later in a full length feature film titled ‘Good Burger’. The film was an extended version of one of the best sketches from the show itself.

Kel embarked as a new star on the Hollywood skies and bagged some meaty roles such as ‘Sister Sister’ and ‘The Steve Harvey Show’ and in 1999, came his first major Hollywood role as the Invisible man in the film ‘Mystery Men’. He starred in the 2000 film ‘The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle’, starring Robert De Nero, Jason Alexander and Rene Russo.

He provided his vocal talent for ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’ as a mild mannered and playful dog by the name of T-dog. Kanye West approached him to feature in the music video for his song ‘All Falls Don’, where he played the role of a luggage collecting valet. He also co-hosted a show named ‘Dance-360’ with Fredro Starr, and although the show lasted only one season, Kel received wide appreciation.