Personal life

Consuelos was born in Zaragoza, Spain, to an Italian mother, Camilla, and a Mexican father, Saul Consuelos. He is the youngest of three children, and has a brother, who is a doctor, and a sister, who is a lawyer. Consuelos has lived in Italy and the United States since childhood. He grew up in Lebanon, Illinois, and later in Tampa, Florida. He attended Bloomingdale High School in Valrico, Florida, and then went to University of Notre Dame before transferring to and graduating from the University of South Florida with a degree in marketing in 1994. During his time at the University of South Florida he worked as a male stripper to pay for his education.

In 1995, Consuelos met Kelly Ripa, his co-star on All My Children. The two eloped on May 1, 1996. The couple have three children: Michael Joseph Consuelos (born June 2, 1997), Lola Grace Consuelos (born June 16, 2001), and Joaquin Antonio Consuelos (born February 24, 2003).

Career

Consuelos had a starring role in the educational serial Connect With English, which aired on public television stations as part of the Annenberg/CPB Project.

In February 1995, Consuelos had his breakthrough when he landed the role of Mateo Santos on the soap opera All My Children. There, he fell in love with his on-screen love interest Kelly Ripa, and secretly married her in Las Vegas, in May 1996. At the time, he lived on co-star Winsor Harmon's sofa; Harmon was one of the few to know that co-stars Ripa and Consuelos were not only dating, but married.

Ripa and Consuelos continued to tape episodes of All My Children until 2002, when Ripa wished to focus more on her other job: taking over for Kathie Lee Gifford as host of what then became Live! with Regis and Kelly (later known as Live! with Kelly, and subsequently as Live! with Kelly and Michael). Consuelos is a regular guest co-host.

Since leaving All My Children, Consuelos has starred in the feature film The Great Raid, which debuted in theatres in 2005. In 2006, he appeared in the movies My Super Ex-Girlfriend, as Steve, and Wedding Daze. He has been seen on the Lifetime series Missing, with Vivica A. Fox. He also had a part in Ugly Betty.

Consuelos hosted two reality dating shows, Age of Love and Science of Love, both airing on NBC in 2007. He guest-starred on Third Watch, Friends, American Family, Fortune Hunter, SeaQuest and Hope & Faith.

On October 3, 2008 he performed the marriage ceremony for Howard Stern and model/actress Beth Ostrosky at the Le Cirque restaurant in New York City. The two couples had grown close, which was why Stern asked Consuelos to perform the wedding ceremony. Consuelos agreed, and took it upon himself to seek ordination to make it an official ceremony for Stern and Ostrosky. The guest list for the wedding included Joan Rivers, Barbara Walters, Billy Joel and wife Katie Lee, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, and Stern's radio co-host Robin Quivers.

A weekly live episode of the "Oprah Winfrey Show" premiered in the show's 23rd season with a panel consisting of Mark Consuelos, Ali Wentworth, Oprah Winfrey, and Gayle King. The panel discussed the week's news and highlighted events in the media and on the show. In the 2009-10 season, Winfrey hosted this segment on her own. Fridays Live did not return for the show's 25th season.

In 2010 Mark Consuelos attended the Cop Out premiere in New York where he had a pleasant conversation with Bryan Johnson in view of a spying Walt Flanagan. In 2012 Consuelos guest-starred on an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit titled "Justice Denied". He played Michael, the prime suspect in a brutal rape during Fleet Week. Consuelos is not new to the Law & Order franchise, he had guest-starred in the sixth season episode "Albatross" of Law & Order: Criminal Intent as the U.S. Attorney involved in a case where the judge's life is threatened.

Consuelos portrayed Spivey, a recurring character, in American Horror Story: Asylum, the second season of the anthology horror series.

In 2013, Consuelos co-starred as Florida Senator Andy Guzman in Amazon's Alpha House, a political comedy written by Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau. Along with John Goodman, Consuelos plays one of four Republican senators living together in a house on Capitol Hill. He has spent the summer of 2014 filming the second season.

Awards and honors

In 1998 and 1999, Consuelos won the American Latino Media Arts Award for "Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Soap Opera." Consuelos won "Hottest Romance" along with Ripa in 1997 at the Soap Opera Awards.

Filmography

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	The Last Place on Earth	Party Toast
2002	Pride & Loyalty	Bill the Cop
2005	The Great Raid	Cpl. Guttierez
2006	My Super Ex-Girlfriend	Steve Velard
2006	Wedding Daze	Morty
2008	For The Love Of Grace	Steve Lockwood
2010	Cop Out	Manuel
2015	"A Walk Among the Tombstones"	Reuben
2016	Nine Lives

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995-2010	All My Children	Mateo Santos	TV series (104 episodes) Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Younger Lead Actor Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Male Newcomer Soap Opera Digest Award for Hottest Romance ALMA Award for Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Nominated-Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Nominated-ALMA Award for Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama
1997	Road Rules	Himself	TV series (1 episode: "Road Rules on All My Children")
1997	Connect With English	Alberto Mendoza	TV series (8 episodes)
2001	Third Watch	Daddy	TV series (1 episode: "Childhood Watch")
2001	Friends	Policeman #1	TV series (1 episode: "The One with Chandler's Dad")
2002	American Family	Eduardo	TV series (2 episodes)
2003	Third Watch	Detective Ramon Valenzuela	TV series (1 episode: "Everybody Lies")
2003	Beautiful Girl	Adam Lopez	Television movie
2004-2006	Missing	Antonio Cortez	TV series (37 episodes) Nominated-Imagen Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television
2005-2006	Hope & Faith	Gary Gucharez	TV series (10 episodes)
2007	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	US Attorney Berner	TV series (1 episode: "Albatross")
2007	Age of Love	Himself / Host	TV series (8 episodes)
2008	Ugly Betty	Detective Averaimo	TV series (1 episode: "Crimes of Fashion")
2011	The Protector	Chuck Wyatt	TV series (1 episode: "Bangs")
2012	I Hate My Teenage Daughter	Alejandro Castillo	TV series (2 episodes)
2012	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Matt Martinez	TV series (1 episode: "Justice Denied")
2012-2013	American Horror Story: Asylum	Spivey	TV mini-series (5 episodes)
2013	The New Normal	Chris	TV series (1 episode: "Gaydar")
2013	Guys with Kids	Andy	TV series (1 episode: "The Will")
2013-Present	Alpha House	Andy Guzman	Amazon TV series - Main cast
2015	Kingdom	Sean Chapas	recurring (season 2); 5 episodes
2016	Pitch	In production
2016	Queen of the South	Teo Aljarafe	Main

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