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Mark Sheppard
Mark Sheppard in 2007
Born	Mark Andreas Sheppard
Other names	Mark A. Sheppard Mark A Sheppard
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1992 – present
Spouse(s)	Jessica Sheppard (March 6, 2004-present)

Mark Andreas Sheppard (born 30 May 1964) is a British actor and musician, born in London of an Irish-German background. He is often credited as "Mark A. Sheppard".

Personal life

Mark Sheppard is the son of actor W. Morgan Sheppard. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife Jesse and two sons, Max and Will.

Career

Music

At 15, he became a professional musician and enjoyed many years as a recording and touring artist with bands including Robyn Hitchcock, Television Personalities and the Irish group Light a Big Fire. Mark played drums on Light a Big Fire's second album. As a session musician, he recorded albums for many groups throughout Europe, and eventually moved to the United States.

Stage

Sheppard was invited to audition for the American production of the play Cock and Bull Story (directed by Midnight Express author Billy Hayes), for which he won numerous awards, including the 1992 L.A. Drama Critics Circle award and the LA Weekly and Dramalogue awards.

Television

His television work includes the "Fire" episode of The X-Files, a year on the Jerry Bruckheimer action series Soldier of Fortune, guest-starring and recurring roles on The Practice, The Invisible Man, Special Unit 2, JAG, Star Trek: Voyager, The Chronicle, Monk, Las Vegas, CSI: NY, Chuck and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, among others. Mark played a demon named Arnon on an episode titled "Witches in Tights" on the TV series Charmed . He played Badger, a semi-comical cockney-style crime boss in the short-lived Joss Whedon show Firefly and later cast again in another Joss Whedon show, Dollhouse as Paul Ballard's dismissive FBI superior. He has appeared as a villain in season five of the Fox show 24 and as Patricia Arquette's serial-killer nemesis on Medium. He appeared as Romo Lampkin in seasons three and four of Battlestar Galactica, and had a recurring role as Manservant Neville in ABC Family's short-lived cult hit The Middleman. He has been seen as Anthony Anthros on Bionic Woman, as Sterling the nemesis character on Leverage, as the demon Crowley on Supernatural, and as a bank robber on an episode of Burn Notice. He appeared in the pilot episode of the USA series White Collar as a villainous master forger and in NBC's Chuck as the Director of The Ring criminal organization. Most recently, he appeared in the SyFy series Warehouse 13 as Regent Benedict Valda. He appears in the 2011 Doctor Who episodes "The Impossible Astronaut" and "Day of the Moon" playing a character called "Canton Delaware III" His father W. Morgan Sheppard portrays an older version of the same character in "The Impossible Astronaut".

Film

His film credits include the Jim Sheridan film In the Name of the Father, starring opposite Daniel Day-Lewis and Emma Thompson as Guildford Four member Patrick Armstrong; the romantic comedy Lover's Knot; the Russian historical drama Out of the Cold; the thriller Unstoppable; and with Heather Graham and Jeremy Sisto in the dark independent, Broken. He also starred in Megalodon, and New Alcatraz.

Mark Sheppard directed his father W. Morgan Sheppard in the film Room 101 and co-stars with him in the psychological thriller Netherworld, which the younger Sheppard also co-produced.

Video games

He currently has a part in The Conduit as protagonist Michael Ford, whose mentor, John Adams, is being voiced by his father, W. Morgan Sheppard.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Silk Stalkings	Eric	Episode: "In Too Deep"
1993	Silk Stalkings	Eddie Bryce	Episode: "Schemes Like Old Times"
1993	In the Name of the Father	Paddy Armstrong
1993	The X-Files	Bob the Caretaker / Cecil L'Ively	Episode: "Fire"
1995	M.A.N.T.I.S.	C. Flayton Ruell	Episode: "Spider in the Tower"
1996	Lover's Knot	Nigel Bowles
1997	Nether World	California
1997	Soldier of Fortune	Christopher 'C.J.' Yates	TV movie
1997-1998	Soldier of Fortune, Inc.	Christopher 'C.J.' Yates	20 episodes
1998	Sliders	Jack	Episode: "Net Worth"
1999	Out of the Cold	Fang
1999	Martial Law	Clay Sullivan	Episode: "Thieves Among Thieves"
1999	The Practice	Eddie Wicks	Episode: "Day in Court"
2000	Star Trek: Voyager	Leucon	Episode: "Child's Play"
2000	JAG		Episode: "A Separate Peace: Part 2"
2001	The Invisible Man	Yuri Gregorov	Episode: "Diseased"
2001	Lady in the Box	Doug Seeney
2001	Farewell, My Love	M.J.
2001	The Chronicle	Nitro	Episode: "Bring Me the Head of Tucker Burns"
2001	Special Unit 2	The Chameleon	Episode: "The Skin"
2001	Lost Voyage	Ian Fields
2001	New Alcatraz	Yuri
2001	V.I.P.	Nero	Episode: "A.I. Highrise"
2002	V.I.P.	Nero	Episode: "48 1/2 Hours"
2002	UC: Undercover	Mitchell Reeves	Episode: "Manhunt"
2002	Megalodon	Mitchell Parks	Video
2002	Charmed	Arnon	Episode: "Witches in Tights"
2002	Firefly	Badger	Episode: "Serenity" Episode: "Shindig"
2002	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Rod Darling	Episode: "The Hunger Artist"
2003	Fastlane	Ronan Dennehy	Episode: "Simone Says"
2003	Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle	Man in Car (uncredited)	TV movie
2003	Deep Shock	Chomsky	TV movie
2003	Jake 2.0	Hartman	Episode: "Whiskey - Tango - Foxtrot"
2004	Evil Eyes	Peter
2004	Unstoppable	Leitch
2004	Las Vegas	George Beckwahr	Episode: "Degas Away with It"
2005	Monk	Chris Downey	Episode: "Mr. Monk vs. the Cobra"
2005	CSI: NY	Kevin Hannigan	Episode: "Hush"
2005	Medium	Dr. Charles Walker	Episode: "Penny for Your Thoughts"
2006	Medium	Dr. Charles Walker / Jack Walker	Episode: "Doctor's Orders" Episode: "Blood Relation"
2006	24	Ivan Erwich	6 episodes
2006	Without a Trace	Ioannis 'Johnny' Patani	Episode: "Requiem"
2006	Broken	Malcolm
2007	Bionic Woman	Anthony Anthros	3 episodes
2007-2009	Battlestar Galactica	Romo Lampkin	6 episodes
2008	Shark	Rupert Stone	Episode: "One Hit Wonder"
2008	In Plain Sight	Russell	Episode: "To Serge with Love"
2008	The Middleman	Manservant Neville	Episode: "The Clotharian Contamination Protocol" Episode: "The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome"
2008-2010	Leverage	Jim Sterling	7 episodes
2009	NCIS	Young Mr. Pain	Episode: "Broken Bird"
2009	Burn Notice	Tom Prescott	Episode: "Bad Breaks"
2009	Dollhouse	Tanaka	3 episodes
2009	White Collar	Curtis Hagen	Episode: "Pilot"
2009	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Dimitri Sadesky	Episode: "The Lost Girls"
2009-2010	Warehouse 13	Benedict Valda	4 episodes
2009-present	Supernatural	Crowley	9 episodes
2010	Xtinction	Dr. Charles LeBlanc
2010	Chuck	Ring Director	Episode: "Chuck Versus the American Hero" Episode: "Chuck Versus the Other Guy"
2011	Doctor Who	Canton Delaware III	Episode: "The Impossible Astronaut" Episode: "Day of the Moon"
2011	Mysterious Island	Young Captain Nemo	Post-production

External links

• Mark Sheppard at IMDb
• Mark Sheppard at TV Guide