Mark Pellegrino | |
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Born | Mark Ross Pellegrino April 9, 1965 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1987–present |
Notable work | 13 Reasons Why American Rust Being Human Dexter Far Cry 5 Lost Quantico Supernatural The Closer The Returned The Tomorrow People |
Height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) |
Spouse |
Tracy Pellegrino (m. 2008) |
Children | 2 stepchildren |
Mark Ross Pellegrino (born April 9, 1965) is an American actor of film and television. He is best known for his work as Lucifer in Supernatural, Paul Bennett in Dexter, Jacob in Lost, James Bishop in Being Human, Clayton Haas in Quantico, and Deputy Bill Standall in 13 Reasons Why.
Early life
Mark Pellegrino was born in Los Angeles, California.[1] He went to a Notre Dame High School.[2]
He grew up in Van Nuys, California. During this time he went to college, got straight As, worked at a gas station, and proceeded to drop out after a year. After he dropped out he realized he needed to do something with his life and saw an advertisement for a modeling agency at a place called John Roberts Powers, where he received some free training for a while. During his training he was picked out for talent by commercial agent Bob Hoover. He was set up with an agent and acting coaches. From there he was sent out into the world of acting and discovered the Meisner acting method. He had no dream to become an actor at the time.[3]
His biological father's name is Gerry, who is of German descent. He had a stepfather named Bill Pellegrino who his mother divorced when he was two years old. He went through his whole life thinking Bill was his biological father. To gather more information about his background he did a search on ancestry.com to find out his heritage. He found out through the website he did not have any Italian blood in his DNA. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, he asked fans of TV show Supernatural on X (Formerly Twitter)[4] if they would be interested in finding his real father. Within an hour of posting, his father was found along with the knowledge of having two sisters and three brothers.[5][6]
During his high school year of 1986 he co-founded and sang in a heavy metal band called "XL", whose sole purpose was to play in the school's May Festival. He didn't enjoy singing during this time period because he never found his voice. The band members went their separate ways after school was finished.[7][8][9]
Career
Pellegrino's first appearance into television was on season 2, episode 2 of the series L.A. Law. His debut film role was that of a narcotics dealer in 1987's Fatal Beauty. Some of his earlier television appearances are also in Northern Exposure, Tales from the Crypt, ER, Without a Trace, NYPD Blue, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Hunter, and The Commish.
He played the Blonde Treehorn Thug who stuffs The Dude's head down the toilet and drops his bowling ball, breaking the floor tile, in the cult film The Big Lebowski.
In 1989 he portrayed Hulk Hogan's younger brother in No Holds Barred.
In 1991 he co-starred in Prayer of the Rollerboys as Christopher Collet's aide-de-camp.
In 1999 he appeared in season 7, episode 3 of The X-Files as a disgruntled fast food joint employee. He was featured in National Treasure as the background FBI agent known as Agent Johnson.
In 2001 he played a hitman in David Lynch's critically acclaimed Mulholland Drive. He portrayed terrorist bomber Bobby James on The Beast.
In 2005 he appeared in the Academy Award winning film Capote, playing murderer Dick Hickock.
In 2006 he played Sadik Marku, an Albanian mob boss, in two episodes of Without a Trace. The first episode was in season 4, episode 22 where he guest starred alongside Mark Sheppard who played Crowley in Supernatural. The second episode was in season 5, episode 5 where he guest starred alongside Rachel Miner who played Meg Masters also which is a role in Supernatural.
In March 2009 he was cast on the ABC series Lost for an appearance in the final 2 episodes of Season 5, to play the role of the mysterious Jacob. Although the press release for the episode refers to his character simply as man No. 1, the episode revealed that he portrayed Jacob, a mysterious character pivotal to the show's plot.
On June 26, 2009, it was also announced that he was cast in a recurring role as Lucifer in season 5 of the CW series Supernatural. He played a recurring role as Lucifer in season 7, and a main role as his character in seasons 12 and 13. He played a main role in season 14 as Nick, Lucifer's vessel, and was a special guest in season 15.
In 2011 he portrayed James Bishop, the leader of a vampire clan based in Boston, in the SyFy horror series Being Human in the first season, and reprised his role in seasons 2-4 as a recurring guest.[10]
In 2011 he and Curtis Armstrong, who played Metatron on Supernatural, guest starred alongside each other as well as their characters being enemy lawyers in season 7 of The Closer.
In 2012 he played a man that took a hit out on his wife, who also took one out on him, Daniel Drake in season 2, episode 8 of Person of Interest.
In 2015 he joined the ABC thriller series Quantico playing the recurring role of Clayton Haas.[11]
In 2018 he voiced and motion captured his first video game role as antagonist Jacob Seed in one Ubisoft's Far Cry 5.
In 2021 he played Virgil Poe in Showtime's American Rust series, a show based on the novel of the same name written by Philipp Meyer.
In September 2022, he was announced to play an unknown role in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.[12]
Personal life
He is married to Tracy Pellegrino.[13] He sometimes teaches at Playhouse Paris, which is a Meisner training school his wife owns and runs in Paris, France.[14]
His favorite thing to do in the world is to teach[15] and if he wasn't an actor his alternate career would be to teach history.[16]
He is a follower of Objectivism, a philosophy created by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand.[18] Before that he used to be an environmentalist and a registered Democrat.[19] Two of the ways he spreads Rand's views are through two YouTube platforms. The first one is through an affiliation with the Ayn Rand Centre UK,[20] and the second is to his own account with a series he has created called: Reality Checks, which are short videos of big ideas based on philosophical topics of everyday life.[21]
He has described his political views as classical liberalism.[22]
He is a co-founder of The American Capitalist Party.[23][24] The party stands for individual rights, limited constitutional government, and laissez-faire capitalism.[25]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1987 | Fatal Beauty | Frankenstein | Film |
1987 | Death Wish 4: The Crackdown | Punk | Film |
1988 | What Price Victory | TV movie | |
1989 | No Holds Barred | Randy Thomas | Film |
1989 | Night Life | Allen Patumbo | Film |
1990 | Prayer of the Rollerboys | Bango | Film |
1991 | Blood and Concrete / Blood & Concrete: A Love Story | Bartholomew “Bart” Daniels | Film |
1991 | Inside Out | Jack | Film - Segment "Doubletalk" - Misspelled Name as "Mark Pelligrino" |
1992 | Lethal Weapon 3 | Billy Phelps | Film |
1992 | Mission of Justice | The Gauntlet Fighter | Film |
1993 | Trouble Bound | Deputy Roy | Film |
1993 | Midnight Witness | Robert “Robbie/Rob” Patterson | Film |
1993 | Class of '61 | Skinner | TV movie |
1993 | Bank Robber | Motorcycle Cop Ted | Film |
1994 | Knight Rider 2010 | Robert Lee | TV movie |
1994 | F.T.W | Deputy Jimmy Sommers | Film |
1996 | Dick Richards | The Boy Toy | Film - Short |
1996 | For Life or Death / Soul of the Avenger | Earl Stockman | Film - Misspelled Name as "Mark Pelligrino" |
1996 | Little Surprises | Jack | TV movie |
1996 | The Cherokee Kid | Frank Bonner | TV movie |
1997 | Born Into Exile | Walter, Owner of Eatery | TV movie |
1997 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Tourist #6 | Film - Deleted Scene |
1997 | Movies Kill | Film | |
1997 | The Temple of Phenomenal Things | Dodd | Film |
1997 | Macon County Jail | Dan Oldum | Film |
1998 | The Big Lebowski | Blonde Treehorn Thug #2 | Film |
1998 | A Murder of Crows | Professor Arthur Corvus | Film |
1999 | Clubland | Lipton T | Film - Misspelled name as "Matt Pellegrino" |
1999 | Certain Guys | Cal | Film |
1999 | Word of Mouth | Darrow | Film - Credited As "Robert Rand" |
1999 | Honest Injun | Film | |
2000 | House of Love | Neil | Film - Credited as "Henry Taggert"[26] |
2000 | Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel | Tripper | Film |
2000 | Drowning Mona | Murphy "Murph" Calzone | Film |
2000 | Something Else | Julian | Film - Short |
2001 | Say It Isn't So | Jimmy Mitchelson | Film |
2001 | Mulholland Drive | Joe Messing | Film |
2001 | Fault Lines | Film | |
2001 | Monsters | Sally Spinelli | Film |
2002 | The Killer Next Door / Ronnie | Keith Schwann | Film |
2002 | Mother Ghost | The Waiter | Film - Misspelled Name as "Mark Pellagrino" |
2002 | Treading Water | The Actor | Film |
2002 | Astronauts | Hollywood | TV movie |
2003 | Moving Alan | Alan Kennard | Film |
2003 | The Hunted | Dale Hewitt | Film |
2003 | Zelda | Reginald Beasley | Film - Short |
2004 | Spartan | Convict | Film |
2004 | Twisted | Jimmy Schmidt | Film |
2004 | National Treasure | FBI Agent Johnson | Film |
2004 | NYPD 2069 | Phil Pavelka | Film |
2005 | Ellie Parker | Justin | Film |
2005 | Capote | Richard Eugene "Dick" Hickock | Film |
2006 | Caffeine | Tom | Film |
2007 | The Number 23 | Kyle Flinch | Film |
2007 | Suspect | Jack Lambroso | TV movie |
2008 | The Last Days of Limbo | Cardinal Reynolds | Film - Short |
2008 | The Coverup / The Thacker Case | Ron Pebble | Film |
2009 | An American Affair | Graham Caswell | Film |
2009 | Two:Thirteen | John Tyler | Film |
2009 | Disappearing In America | The Bodyguard | Film - Misspelled Name as "Mark Pellligrino" in Opening Credits |
2011 | Joint Body / The Bandit | Nick Burke | Film |
2011 | Last Words | Colonel Carter | Film - Short |
2011 | Locke & Key | Rendell Locke | TV movie |
2011 | Bad Meat | Doug Kendrew | Film |
2011 | Post | Mark | Film |
2012 | Hemingway & Gellhorn | Max Eastman | TV movie |
2013 | Game Changer | Bruce | Film - Short |
2013 | Bad Turn Worse / We Gotta Get Out Of This Place | Giff | Film |
2013 | The Trials of Cate McCall | Detective Robert Welch | Film |
2018 | Beirut | Cal Riley | Film |
2024[27] | Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F † | TBA | Upcoming Film |
2024 | Mis/Identity † | The Overseer | Upcoming Film - Short |
2024 | Emerald Ties †[28] | Seamus | Upcoming Film - Short |
TBD | Strangers in a Strange Land † | Grungy Man | Upcoming Film |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1987 | L.A. Law | Punk | Season 2 Episode 2 - "The Wizard of Odds" |
1989 | Doogie Howser, M.D. | Dude | Season 1 Episode 9 - "She Ain't Heavy, She's My Cousin" |
1990 | Hunter | John Reynolds | Season 6 Episode 10 - "Brotherly Love" |
1990 | Tales from the Crypt | Punk | Season 2 Episode 2 - "The Switch" |
1992 | Northern Exposure | Rolf Hauser | Season 4 Episode 3 - "Nothing's Perfect" |
1992 | The Hat Squad | Daniel Wilson "D.W." Strong | Season 1 Episode 4 - "Family Business" |
1993 | The Commish | Joe "Joey" Lund | Season 2 Episode 18 - "The Ides of March" |
1994 | Viper | Yuri | Season 1 Episode 1 - "Pilot" |
1994 | Renegade | Cletus Freed | Season 3 Episode 18 - "Living Legend" |
1995 | Marker | Charles "Chuck" Calder | Season 1 Episode 9 - "The Pink Unicorn" |
1995 | Deadly Games | Ross Logan | Season 1 Episode 8 - "Car Mechanic" |
1996 | ER | Nathan Conley | Season 2 Episode 14 - "The Right Thing" |
1996 | Nash Bridges | Ferguson | Season 1 Episode 1 - "Genesis" |
1996 | The Sentinel | Ray Weston | Season 2 Episode 2 - "Out of the Past" |
1997-2002 | NYPD Blue | Frank Watkins / Stanley Struel /
Steve Dansick |
Season 5 Episode 6 - "Dead Man Talking"
Season 6 Episode 4 - "Brother's Keeper" Season 9 Episode 22 - "Better Laid Than Never Part 1" Season 9 Episode 23 - "Better Laid Than Never Part 2" |
1998 | Brimstone | Robert Busch | Season 1 Episode 8 - "Ashes" |
1999 | The X-Files | Derwood Spinks | Season 7 Episode 3 - "Hungry" |
2001 | The Beast | Bobby James / Robert Tibideau | Season 1 Episode 1 - "The Price"
Season 1 Episode 2 - "The Damage Done" Season 1 Episode 3 - "The Delivery" |
2001 | Thieves | Bill | Season 1 Episode 5 - "The General" |
2002 | Crossing Jordan | Keith Walker | Season 1 Episode 16 - "Lost and Found" |
2003-2011 | CSI: Miami | Jed Gold / Greg Calomar | Season 2 Episode 6 - "Hurricane Anthony"
Season 9 Episode 18 - "About Face" |
2003 | The Practice | Herrick Smoltz | Season 7 Episode 13 - "Character Evidence" |
2005-2009 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Elliot Perolta / Bruno Curtis | Season 6 Episode 5 - "Gum Drops" - (Deleted Scene - Doesn't Appear in the Episode)
Season 9 Episode 24 - "All In" |
2006 | The Unit | Gary Soto | Season 1 Episode 11 - "Exposure" |
2006 | Without a Trace | Sadik Marku | Season 4 Episode 22 - "Requiem"
Season 5 Episode 5 - "The Damage Done" |
2006–2007 | Dexter | Paul Bennett | Recurring Role - (Seasons 1–2, 8 Episodes) |
2007 | Burn Notice | Quentin King | Season 1 Episode 2 - "Identity" |
2007 | Grey's Anatomy | Chris | Season 4 Episode 1 - "A Change Is Gonna Come" |
2007 | Women's Murder Club | Sam Johannes | Season 1 Episode 5 - "Maybe Baby" |
2007 | K-Ville | Quentin | Season 1 Episode 6 - "AKA" |
2008 | Knight Rider | Walter "Walt" Cooperton | Season 1 Episode 5 - "Knight of the Hunter" |
2008-2012 | Chuck | Fulcrum Agent / Hector | Season 2 Episode 7 - "Chuck Versus the Fat Lady" Season 5 Episode 13 - "Chuck Versus the Goodbye" |
2008 | Numb3rs | Tim Hamer | Season 5 Episode 8 - "Thirty-Six Hours" |
2008 | Prison Break | Patrick Vikan | Season 4 Episode 13 - "Deal or No Deal" Season 4 Episode 14 - "Just Business" |
2008 | Criminal Minds | Lieutenant Evans | Season 4 Episode 10 - "Brothers in Arms" |
2009 | Fear Itself | Mr. Drake | Season 1 Episode 11 - "The Spirit Box" |
2009 | Ghost Whisperer | Ben Tillman | Season 4 Episode 18 - "Leap of Faith" |
2009–2020 | Supernatural | Nick / Lucifer | Recurring Role (Seasons 5, 7, 11, 13 Episodes) Main Role (Seasons 12–14, 24 Episodes) Special Guest (Season 15, 1 Episode) |
2009 | The Philanthropist | Walter Kerabatsos | Season 1 Episode 6 - "San Diego" |
2009 | The Mentalist | Von McBride | Season 2 Episode 4 - "Red Menace" |
2009–2010 | Lost | Jacob | Recurring Role (Seasons 5–6, 7 Episodes) |
2011 | Breakout Kings | Virgil Downing | Season 1 Episode 10 - "Paid in Full" |
2011-2014 | Being Human | James Bishop | Main Role (Season 1,10 Episodes)
Recurring Role (Seasons 2–4, 5 Episodes) |
2011 | The Closer | Gavin Q. Baker III | Recurring Role (Season 7, 6 Episodes) |
2012 | Castle | Tom Dempsey / Tom Dempsey III | Season 4 Episode 14 - "The Blue Butterfly" |
2012 | Grimm | Jarold Kempfer | Season 2 Episode 3 - "Bad Moon Rising" |
2012 | Revolution | Jeremy Baker | Season 1 Episode 3 - "No Quarter"
Season 1 Episode 10 - "Nobody's Fault But Mine" Season 1 Episode 15 - "Home" Season 1 Episode 17 - "The Longest Day" |
2012 | Person of Interest | Daniel "Danny" Drake | Season 2 Episode 8 - "'Til Death" |
2013–2014 | The Tomorrow People | Jedikiah Price | Main Role - 1 Season Only, 22 Episodes |
2015 | Chicago P.D. | Jim Anderoff | Season 2 Episode 12 - "Disco Bob" |
2015 | The Returned | Jack Winship | Main Role - 1 Season Only, 10 Episodes |
2015–2016 | Quantico | Executive Assistant Director to the FBI Clayton Haas | Recurring Role (Season 1, 11 Episodes) |
2017–2020 | 13 Reasons Why | Deputy Bill Standall | Recurring Role (Seasons 1–3, 17 Episodes) Main Role (Season 4, 10 Episodes) |
2021-2024[29] | American Rust | Virgil Poe | Main Role (Season 1, 9 Credited Episodes - Only Appears In 6 of Them)
Main Role (Season 2, 5 Episodes) |
2021 | 9-1-1 | Mitchell Trent | Season 5 Episode 6 - "Brawl in Cell Block 9-1-1" |
2022 | The Rookie: Feds | Victor Quincannon (FBI Wanted Picture Only) / Walter Krebs / Logan Hess | Season 1 Episode 2 - "Face Off" |
2023 | Class of '09 | Mark Tupirik | Season 1 Episode 2 - "The Fitness Test"
Season 1 Episode 3 - "Thank You for Not Driving" Season 1 Episode 4 - "Not Your Girlfriend" |
2023 | Underdeveloped | Nader | Main Role (Season 1, 6 Credited Episodes - Only Appears In the First 5 Episodes) |
Video games
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
2018 | Far Cry 5 | Jacob Seed | Video Game Voice and Motion Capture Performance |
2019 | Anthem | Grandmaster Adams | Video Game Voice[30] |
Other
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
2015-2018 | The Hillywood Show | Dancer / Slimer | Supernatural Parody[31]
Supernatural Parody 2[32] |
References
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- ↑ Herald, Franchise (16 October 2015). "What Mystery Surrounds Character Of Newest 'Quantico' TV Series Cast Mark Pellegrino?".
- ↑ Simpson, K. T. (September 28, 2022). "Supernatural actor joins Beverly Hills Cop 4". Movie Hole. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
- ↑ "Tracy Pellegrino". IMDb.com. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
- ↑ "PLAYHOUSE PARIS – Find your sheep". Retrieved 2022-05-08.
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- ↑ "Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley Is Ready To 'Throw You Back To The '80s' – World-First Image". Empire. 2023-11-20. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
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