- A 1991 graduate of Brown University in Rhode Island with majors in theatre and religion.
- Title of Masters thesis - "What We Make Is Not Ours", (MFA, 1995, University of California, San Diego).
- He spent some time after graduation in New York acting in minor theatre productions, then attended a three-year theatre program at the University of California, San Diego, where he earned an M.F.A. degree in 1995.
- Founder and president of the production company, Phantom Limbs Plays & Pictures.
- His blue Doberman is named Atticus.
- Full name is Silas Weir Mitchell Neilson. He was named after an ancestor, the 19th century physician and author, Silas Weir Mitchell.
- Has appeared on all three of the CSI franchise shows as different characters.
- Graduated in 1987 from St. Paul's School, a college preparatory boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire.
- Grew up in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia.
- Auditioned to play Nick Vera on Cold Case (2003).
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