Mark Ross Pellegrino is an American actor of film and television. He is best known for his work on Lost as Jacob and on Supernatural as Lucifer.
Pellegrino portrays villain Jedikiah Price.
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. 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 being tortured by Lucifer, 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 seasons 2 and 3.
Personal life[]
Pellegrino lives in Los Angeles with his wife Tracy Pellegrino. He is a teacher at the repertory theater company "Playhouse West", a west coast division of Sanford Meisner's Neighborhood Playhousein New York City. Pellegrino was baptized as a born-again Christian in his mid-20s and remains outspoken about his conservative politics.
Gallery[]
→ see also Mark Pellegrino/Gallery and Category:Images of Mark Pellegrino
Filmography[]
| 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 |
| Lethal Weapon 3 | Billy Phelps | ||
| 1994 | Viper | Yuri | TV movie pilot |
| 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 S06E04 | |
| 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 |
| Mother Ghost | Waiter | ||
| 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 | |
| [SI: 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 | Season 2 Episode 7 "Chuck Versus the Fat Lady" | |
| Numb3rs | Tim Hamer | TV series | |
| Prison Break | Patrick Vikan | Season 4 Episode 13 "Deal or No Deal"
Season 4 Episode 14 "Just Business" | |
| 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, 7th 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; Season 1 main cast |
| The Closer | Gavin Q. Baker III | TV series; 7th season | |
| Breakout Kings | Virgil Downing | TV series | |
| 2012 | Chuck | Fulcrum Agent | Season 5 Episode 13 "Chuck Versus the Goodbye" |
| Hemingway & Gellhorn | Max Eastman | TV movie | |
| Castle | Tom Dempsey | Season 4 Episode 14 "The Blue Butterfly" | |
| Being Human | Bishop | TV series; season 2 recurring cast | |
| Grimm | Jarold Kampfer | Season 2 Episode 3 "Bad Moon Rising" | |
| Revolution | Jeremy Baker | 4 Episodes; recurring role | |
| [Person of Interest | Daniel Drake | Season 2 Episode 8 "Til Death" | |
| 2013 | The Tomorrow People | Jedikiah Price | Main role |
| The Trials of Cate McCall | Film, Post-production |
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