Mark Pellegrino

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Mark Pellegrino
Born	April 9, 1965 (1965-04-09) (age 46) Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1987 - present

Mark Ross Pellegrino (born April 9, 1965) is an American actor of film and television. He is best known for his work on Lost as Jacob and for playing Lucifer on Supernatural.

Career

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, The X-Files, 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.

In March 2009, Pellegrino was cast on the ABC series Lost for an appearance in the final episode of the fifth season, 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.^[1] On June 26, 2009 it was also announced that Pellegrino was cast in a recurring role as Lucifer in the 5th season of the CW series Supernatural.^{[citation needed]} He is returning to continue the role for the 7th season. He portrayed the vampire "Bishop" in the SyFy horror series Being Human.

Personal life

Pellegrino lives in Los Angeles with his wife Tracy Aziz, stepdaughter Tess and stepson Misha. He is a teacher at the repertory theater company "Playhouse West", a west coast division of Sanford Meisner's Neighborhood Playhouse in [New York City]. Pellegrino was baptized as a born-again Christian in his mid-20s but now considers himself more "spiritual/philosophical".^[2]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	Fatal Beauty	Frankenstein
	Death Wish 4: The Crackdown	Punk
1989	No Holds Barred	Randy
	Doogie Howser, M.D.	Dude	TV series
1990	Prayer of the Rollerboys	Bango
	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	Knight Rider 2010	Robert Lee	TV Movie
1996	ER	Nathan Conley	TV series
	The Sentinel	Ray	TV Series
1997	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Tourist #6
	NYPD Blue	Fran Watkins	TV series
1998	The Big Lebowski	Blond Treehorn Thug
	A Murder of Crows	Prof. Arthur Corvus
	NYPD Blue	Stanley Streul	TV series
1999	Word of Mouth	Darrow
	The X Files	Derwood Spinks	TV series
2000	Drowning Mona	Murph Calzone
2001	Say It Isn't So	Jimmy Mitchelson
	Mulholland Drive	Joe Messing
	The Beast	Bobby James/Robert Tibideau	TV series
2002	NYPD Blue	Steve Dansick	TV series
2003	The Hunted	Dale Hewitt
	CSI: Miami	Jed Gold	TV series
2004	Spartan	Convict
	Twisted	Jimmy Schmidt
	National Treasure	Agent Johnson
2005	Capote	Dick Hickock
	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Elliot Perolta
2006	Caffeine	Tom
	The Unit	Gary Soto	TV series
	Dexter	Paul Bennett	TV series
2007	The Number 23	Kyle Flinch
	Without a Trace	Sadik Marku	TV series
	Grey's Anatomy	Chris	TV series
	Burn Notice	Quentin King	TV series
2008	Knight Rider	Walt Cooperton	TV series
	Chuck	Fulcrum Agent	TV series
	Numb3rs	Tim Hamer	TV series
	Prison Break	Patrick Vikan	TV series
	Criminal Minds	Lt. Evans	TV series
2009	An American Affair	Graham Caswell
	Disappearing In America	Bodyguard
	Two:Thirteen	John Tyler
	Supernatural	Nick/Lucifer	TV series; 5th Season
	Ghost Whisperer	Ben Tillman	TV series
	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Bruno Curtis	TV series
	The Mentalist	Vaughn McBride	TV series
	Lost	Jacob	TV series
2010	CSI: Miami	Greg Calomar	TV series
2011	Being Human	Bishop	TV series
2011	The Closer	Gavin Q. Baker III	TV series ; 7th season
2011	Supernatural	Lucifer	TV series ; 7th Season

References

1. ^ "Lost Casts Dexter Baddie as Mysterious "Man No. 1"". TVGuide.com. http://www.tvguide.com/News/Lost-Casts-Pellegrino-1004532.aspx. Retrieved 2009-03-30. 
2. ^ "TV Guide, April 19, 2010". tvguidemagazine.com. http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/kecks-exclusives/mark-pellegrino-pulls-double-duty-4741.html. Retrieved 2010-04-20. 

External links

• Mark Pellegrino at the Internet Movie Database
• One on One with Mark Pellegrino

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Name	Pellegrino, Mark
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Date of birth	1965-04-09
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California, United States
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