Finesse Mitchell Biography

Saturday Night Live alum, Finesse Mitchell, a versatile actor and comedian, plays China Ann McClain’s cop father on the hit Disney show, A.N.T. Farm, which is now in its third season.

His last book, published in 2007, Your Girlfriends Only Know So Much was an advice book for women stemming from his hip, hilarious and wildly popular monthly advice column as a writer/contributor for ESSENCE magazine.

Mitchell also had memorable performances on B.E.T’s Comic View, Tyra, Comedy Central Presents, Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns and movies, Who’s Your Caddy, The Comebacks and Mad Money. In 2012-2013 he toured the U.S. as a feature act in Shaquille O’Neal’s All Star Comedy Jam tour, playing over twenty major venues in the nation’s biggest markets.

Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Finesse graduated from the University of Miami. A former student-athlete who was a walk-on for the National Champion Hurricanes football team, that played with such UM alumni as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Superbowl champion, Warren Sapp. Finesse is also a distinguished member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity where in 2011 he performed with the Kings of Comedy Kappa man, Cedric The Entertainer, for the fraternity’s 100 Centennial Conclave.

Always coming back to his first love and where he got his start; stand-up, he recently directed and produced his second stand-up, one hour, comedy special, One-Man Monster which will be released in 2013. With all of these things happening in his career, Mitchell is riding high and he’s not coming down anytime soon.