Mark Pellegrino

Mark Pellegrino’s first appearance into television was on season 2, episode 2 of the series L.A. Law. His debut film role was that of a narcotics dealer in 1987’s Fatal Beauty. Some of his earlier television appearances are also in Northern Exposure, Tales from the Crypt, ER, Without a Trace, NYPD Blue, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Hunter, and The Commish.

In 1989, he portrayed Hulk Hogan’s younger brother in No Holds Barred.

In 1991, he co-starred in Prayer of the Rollerboys as Christopher Collet’s aide-de-camp.

In 1998, he played the Blonde Treehorn 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 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.

In 2001, he played a hitman in David Lynch’s critically acclaimed Mulholland Drive. He portrayed terrorist bomber Bobby James on The Beast.

In 2005, he appeared in the Academy Award winning film Capote, playing murderer Dick Hickock.

In 2006, he played Sadik Marku, an Albanian mob boss, in two episodes of Without a Trace. The first episode was in season 4, episode 22 where he guest starred alongside Mark Sheppard who played Crowley in Supernatural. The second episode was in season 5, episode 5 where he guest starred alongside Rachel Minerwho played Meg Masters also which is a role in Supernatural.
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. Although the press release for the episode refers to his character simply as man No. 1, the episode revealed that he portrayed Jacob, a mysterious character pivotal to the show’s plot.

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. He played a recurring role as Lucifer in season 7, and a main role as his character in seasons 12 and 13. He played a main role in season 14 as Nick, Lucifer’s vessel, and was a special guest in season 15.

In 2011 he portrayed James Bishop, the leader of a vampire clan based in Boston, in the SyFy horror series Being Human in the first season, and reprised his role in seasons 2-4 as a recurring guest.
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.

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 2015, he joined the ABC thriller series Quantico playing the recurring role of Clayton Haas.

In 2018, he voiced and motion captured his first video game role as antagonist Jacob Seed in one Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5.

In 2021 and 2024, he played Virgil Poe in the American Rust TV series, a show based on the novel of the same name written by Philipp Meyer.

In July 2024, he appeared in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F as one of Captain Cade Grant’s, played by Kevin Bacon, main man antagonist named Beck.

His next project is the spinoff of The Boys, Vought Rising.