Mark Pellegrino Biography

Fast Facts

• Was nominated for a Saturn Award for "Lost" in 2010 and a Screen Actors Guild Award for "Capote" in 2006
• Teaches aspiring actors at Playhouse West in North Hollywood
• Studied under the renowned method actor and coach Sanford Meisner in his early 20s
• Started his career doing commercials before his agent advised him to take acting classes
• Quote: "I like quirky roles․ I like looking at guys who a lot of people think are bad guys and turning it around a little bit and putting it on its head․․․I let the audience judge the morality or immorality of the character․"
• Quote: "(On why he cut short his college career): "We're floating away from reasoning and becoming more intuitive and emotion centered and losing the things that I think will help us to understand the world in a way that will help us live in it․""
• Quote: "Our careers are dependant to a degree on whether or not somebody else accepts us․ But more than that, it's us that we have to accept and to live with and work with and to love ourselves in the work and be patient․"
• Best known for his role as Jacob in "Lost," as Bishop in "Being Human," and as Lucifer in "Supernatural․"
• Has been cast as the villain in the majority of his more than 110 film and TV appearances
• Originally went to school to become a marine biologist, and has said he would probably get into politics or teaching if he wasn't an actor