Age: 59
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States
Mark Ross Pellegrino (born April 9, 1965) is an American actor of film and television. A highly prolific actor, he is best known for his work as Lucifer in Supernatural, Paul Bennett in Dexter, Jacob in Lost and as Bishop in Being Human. He also starred as Jedikiah Price in The CW series The Tomorrow People and as Clayton Haas in the ABC thriller drama Quantico.
Pellegrino appeared in season 7, episode 3 of "The X-Files" in November 1999. In 2001, he played an incompetent hitman in David Lynch's critically acclaimed "Mulholland Drive". Pellegrino starred as Rita's abusive ex-con former husband Paul on Showtime's Dexter; and later as Lucifer on Supernatural and as the mysterious near-immortal Jacob on ABC's Lost. He has appeared on the television series Northern Exposure, ER, Without a Trace, NYPD Blue, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and Knight Rider. He also is well known as the "Blond 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. He also is featured in "National Treasure" as the background FBI agent known as Agent Johnson.
In March 2009, Pellegrino was cast on the ABC series Lost for an appearance in the final episode 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 Pellegrino portrayed Jacob, a mysterious character pivotal to the show's plot. On June 26, 2009 it was also announced that Pellegrino was cast in a recurring role as Lucifer in the fifth season of the CW series Supernatural until he was returned to his prison, returning in the seventh season as a hallucination of protagonist Sam Winchester due to his mental damage after he spent a year in the Cage, until Sam was cured of his insanity.
He portrayed the vampire "Bishop" in the SyFy horror series Being Human in the first season, and also reprises the role in season 2 and 3 as both flashbacks and hallucinations.
He starred as Jedikiah Price in The CW series The Tomorrow People.
In 2015, the actor joined Quantico (TV series) playing the recurring role of Clayton Haas, as FBI Deputy Director.
Pellegrino was born in Los Angeles, California. He is an adherent of Objectivism, a philosophy created by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand. Pellegrino does not identify as a libertarian. Though he considers this description to be the closest to his political views, he considers Libertarianism to be an anarchist political ideology and has distanced himself from this ideology, describing himself solely as an Objectivist, stating that he sees a place for government in society. He has described his political views, instead, as classical liberalism, and has also described himself as a radical capitalist. He is married to Tracy Aziz and stepfather of her daughter Tess.
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1987 | Fatal Beauty | Frankenstein | |
1987 | Death Wish 4: The Crackdown | Punk | |
1989 | No Holds Barred | Randy | |
1989 | Doogie Howser, M.D. | Dude | TV series |
1990 | Prayer of the Rollerboys | Bango | |
1990 | Tales from the Crypt | Punk | TV series |
1991 | Blood and Concrete | Bart | |
1992 | Northern Exposure | Rolf Hauser | TV series |
1992 | Lethal Weapon 3 | Billy Phelps | |
1994 | Viper | Yuri | TV movie pilot |
1994 | Knight Rider 2010 | Robert Lee | TV movie |
1996 | ER | Nathan Conley | TV series |
1996 | The Sentinel | Ray | TV series |
1997 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Tourist #6 | |
1997 | NYPD Blue | Fran Watkins | TV series |
1998 | The Big Lebowski | Blond Treehorn Thug | |
1998 | A Murder of Crows | Prof. Arthur Corvus | |
1998 | NYPD Blue | Stanley Streul | TV series S06E04 |
1999 | Word of Mouth | Darrow | |
1999 | The X-Files | Derwood Spinks | TV series Episode: "Hungry" |
2000 | Drowning Mona | Murph Calzone | |
2001 | Say It Isn't So | Jimmy Mitchelson | |
2001 | Mulholland Drive | Joe Messing | |
2001 | The Beast | Bobby James/Robert Tibideau | TV series |
2002 | NYPD Blue | Steve Dansick | TV series |
2002 | Mother Ghost | Waiter | |
2003 | The Hunted | Dale Hewitt | |
2003 | Moving Alan | Alan Kennard | |
2003 | CSI: Miami | Jed Gold | TV series |
2004 | Spartan | Convict | |
2004 | Twisted | Jimmy Schmidt | |
2004 | National Treasure | Agent Johnson | |
2005 | Capote | Dick Hickock | |
2005 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Elliot Perolta | |
2006 | Caffeine | Tom | |
2006 | The Unit | Gary Soto | TV series |
2006 | Dexter | Paul Bennett | TV series |
2007 | The Number 23 | Kyle Flinch | |
2007 | Without a Trace | Sadik Marku | TV series |
2007 | Grey's Anatomy | Chris | Season 4 Episode 1 "A Change Is Goen Come" |
2007 | Burn Notice | Quentin King | TV series |
2008 | Knight Rider | Walt Cooperton | TV series |
2008 | Chuck | Alexander Winterborne/Edgar | Season 2 Episode 7 "Chuck Versus the Fat Lady"
Season 5 Episode 13 "Chuck Versus the Goodbye" |
2008 | Numb3rs | Tim Hamer | TV series |
2008 | Prison Break | Patrick Vikan | Season 4 Episode 13 "Deal or No Deal"
Season 4 Episode 14 "Just Business" |
2008 | Criminal Minds | Lt. Evans | Season 4 Episode 10 "Brothers in Arms" |
2009 | An American Affair | Graham Caswell | |
2009 | Disappearing In America | Bodyguard | |
2009 | Two:Thirteen | John Tyler | |
2009-2012,2015-16 | Supernatural | Nick/Lucifer | TV series; 5th season, 7th season, 11th season. |
2009 | Ghost Whisperer | Ben Tillman | TV series |
2009 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Bruno Curtis | TV series |
2009 | The Mentalist | Vaughn McBride | TV series |
2009 | Lost | Jacob | TV series |
2010 | CSI: Miami | Greg Calomar | TV series |
2011 | Bad Meat | Doug Kendrew | Film |
2011 | Being Human | Bishop | TV series; Season 1 main cast |
2011 | The Closer | Gavin Q. Baker III | TV series; 7th season |
2011 | Breakout Kings | Virgil Downing | TV series |
2011 | Locke & Key | Rendell Locke | Unaired pilot |
2012 | Chuck | Fulcrum Agent | Season 5 Episode 13 "Chuck Versus the Goodbye" |
2012 | Hemingway & Gellhorn | Max Eastman | TV movie |
2012 | Castle | Tom Dempsey | Season 4 Episode 14 "The Blue Butterfly" |
2012 | Being Human | Bishop | TV series; season 2 recurring cast |
2012 | Grimm | Jarold Kampfer | Season 2 Episode 3 "Bad Moon Rising" |
2012 | Revolution | Jeremy Baker | 4 Episodes; recurring role |
2012 | Person of Interest | Daniel Drake | Season 2 Episode 8 "Til Death" |
2013-2014 | The Tomorrow People | Jedikiah Price | Main role |
2013 | The Trials of Cate McCall | Film, Post-production | |
2013 | Bad Turn Worse | Giff | |
2015 | Chicago P.D. | Jim Anderoff | Episode: "Disco Bob" |
2015 | The Returned | Jack Wiship | Main role |
2015-2016 | Quantico | FBI Deputy Director Clayton | Recurring role |