
He is a follower of Objectivism, a philosophy created by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand. His favorite thing to do in the world is to teach. He sometimes teaches at Playhouse Paris, which is a Meisner training school his wife owns and runs in Paris, France. In 2021, he played "Virgil Poe" in Showtime's American Rust series, a show based on the novel of the same name written by Philipp Meyer. In 2018 he voiced and motion captured his first video game role as an antagonist named "Jacob Seed" in one of Ubisoft's hit franchise games called Far Cry 5. In 2015 he joined the ABC thriller series Quantico playing the recurring role of "FBI Deputy Director Clayton Haas". In 2012 he played a man that took a hit out on his wife, who also took one out on him, "Daniel Drake" in season 2, episode 8 of Person of Interest. In 2011 he and Curtis Armstrong, who played " Metatron" on Supernatural, guest starred alongside each other as well as their characters being enemy lawyers in season 7 of The Closer. His character went by the name of "James Bishop" for the SyFy horror series Being Human in the first season, and also reprised his role in seasons 2-4 as a recurring guest. In 2011 he portrayed the leader of a vampire clan based in Boston, MA. He played a main role in season 14 as " Nick", Lucifer's vessel, and was a special guest in season 15. He played a recurring role as "Lucifer" in season 7, and a main role as his character in seasons 12 and 13. On June 26, 2009, it was also announced that he was cast in a recurring role as " Lucifer" in season 5 of the CW series Supernatural. 1", the episode revealed that he portrayed "Jacob", a mysterious character pivotal to the show's plot. Although the press release for the episode refers to his character simply as "Man No. In March 2009 he was cast on the ABC series Lost for an appearance in the final 2 episodes of Season 5, to play the role of the mysterious " Jacob".

The second episode was in season 5, episode 5 where he guest starred alongside Rachel Miner who played " Meg Masters" also which is a role in Supernatural. The first episode was in season 4, episode 22 where he guest starred alongside Mark Sheppard who played " Crowley" in Supernatural. In 2006 he played an Albanian Mob Boss by the name of "Sadik Marku" in 2 episodes of Without a Trace. In 2005 he appeared in the Academy Award winning film Capote, playing murderer " Dick Hickock". In 2001 he played a hitman in David Lynch's critically acclaimed Mulholland Drive. In 1999 he appeared in season 7, episode 3 of The X-Files as a disgruntled fast food joint employee. He was featured in National Treasure as the background FBI agent known as "Agent Johnson".Īmong his numerous cable and network television show roles, he portrayed terrorist bomber "Bobby James" on The Beast. He played the "Blonde Treehorn Thug #2" 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 starred as Rita's abusive ex-con former husband " Paul Bennett" on Showtime's Dexter and later as Lucifer on Supernatural and as the mysterious near-immortal " Jacob" on ABC's Lost. Some of his earlier appearances are also in Northern Exposure, ER, Without a Trace, NYPD Blue, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and Knight Rider. Pellegrino's first appearance into television was on season 2, episode 2 of the series L. Within an hour of posting his father was found along with the knowledge of having 2 sisters and 3 brothers. Before the COVID pandemic he asked fans of TV show Supernatural on Twitter if they be interested in finding his real father. He found out through the website he didn't have any Italian blood in his DNA. To gather more information about his background he did a search on to find out his heritage.

He went through his whole life thinking Bill was his biological father. He had a step-father named Bill Pellegrino who his mother divorced when he was two years old. His biological father's name is Jerry who is of German descent. He had no dream to become an actor at the time.

From there he was sent out into the world of acting and discovered the Meisner acting method. He was set up with an agent and acting coaches. During his training there he was picked out for talent by a commercial agent by the name of Bob Hoover. After he dropped out he realized he needed to do something with his life and saw an advertisement for a modeling agency at a place called " John Roberts Powers" where he received some free training for a while. During this time he went to college, got straight A's, worked at a gas station, and then proceeded to drop out after a year. Through this school he started to respect the act of studying. Mark Pellegrino is a German-American born in Los Angeles, California.
