Mark Pellegrino Biography

Fast Facts

• Went to college to study marine biology before turning his focus to acting
• Trained at Playhouse West in North Hollywood and later became a teacher there
• Film debut was in 1987's Fatal Beauty
• Was nominated along with the rest of the cast of 2005's Capote for a Screen Actors Guild Award (Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture)
• Known for playing several supernatural characters: the mysterious near-immortal Jacob on Lost, Lucifer on Supernatural and a vampire boss on Being Human
• Studies various types of martial arts