Marilyn Manson

The stage name alone, fusing America's sweetheart with its most infamous criminal, is a thesis statement, and I have always read Manson as a conceptual artist who happened to use rock music as his medium. Brian Warner built a character designed to expose the hypocrisies of the culture that condemned him, and his commitment to that persona across albums, paintings, film roles, and an autobiography is genuinely rare. He is also a deeply polarizing figure, and any honest assessment has to hold the art and the controversies in separate hands. As pure provocation-as-craft, though, few have done it with more rigor.

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Name (English)

Marilyn Manson

Name (Japanese)

マリリン・マンソン

Reading

まりりん・まんそん

Born

January 5, 1969 (age 57)

Origin

Canton, Ohio, United States

Occupation

actor / autobiographer / painter / composer / singer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rooster

High school

GlenOak High School

University

Broward College

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/marilynmanson/
• Xhttps://x.com/marilynmanson
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn%20Manson
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186327

Tags

• Ohio
• actor
• autobiographer
• painter

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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