Mitch Craft

Mitch Craft is an actor known for his work from the television shows: NCIS: New Orleans (2017), Murderous Affairs (2017) and Preacher (2017) as well as from the feature films: "Are You From Dixie?" (2018) directed by Art Arutyunyan and Blaze (2018), directed by Ethan Hawke. Mitch was born on September 22, 1985 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri to Darla Ann Craft, assistant Human Resource director and Gary Woodrow Craft, retired truck driver. He attended Cape Central High School and was a 3-sport athlete in baseball, basketball and football where he averaged a double-double for two seasons in basketball, was all-conference in baseball and was a two year all-state quarterback in football. After high school, Craft played college football at Southern Miss and was named the starting middle linebacker before the 2006 season. He was known as an athletic, tough and hard-nosed middle linebacker who liked mixing it up. He then went on to play pro football for four years before officially retiring in 2