Mark Sheppard

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Mark A. Sheppard (born May 30, 1964) is a British actor and musician, born in London of an Irish-German background. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife Jessica and two sons, Maximilian and William.

1 Music
2 Stage
3 Television
4 Film
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Music

At 15, he became a professional musician and enjoyed many years as a recording and touring artist with bands including Robyn Hitchcock{^[1], Television Personalities^[1] and the Irish group Light a Big Fire. Mark played drums on Light a Big Fire's second album^[2]. As a session musician, he recorded albums for many groups throughout Europe^{[citation needed]}, and eventually moved to the United States, forming the L.A. group School of Fish.^[3]^{[dubious – discuss]}

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 CSI, The Practice, Special Unit 2, JAG, Star Trek: Voyager, The Chronicle, Monk, Las Vegas and CSI: NY, among others. He played Badger, a semi-comical cockney-style crime boss in the short-lived Joss Whedon show Firefly. He has appeared as a villain in season five of the Fox show 24 and as Patricia Arquette's serial-killer nemesis on Medium.^[4] He appeared as Romo Lampkin during the last three episodes ("The Son Also Rises", "Crossroads" Part I & II) of season three^[5] and an episode of season four ("Sine Qua Non") of Battlestar Galactica. He has most recently been seen as Anthony Anthros on Bionic Woman.^[6]^[7]

[edit] 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 stared in Megalodon .

His father is the noted character actor W. Morgan Sheppard, whom he directed in the film Room 101 and with whom he co-stars in the psychological thriller Netherworld, which he also co-produced.

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b "Hayes Moves in New Direction", Daily News of Los Angeles, 1992-04-03. "They are played by Trevor Goddard, a former pro boxer, and Mark Sheppard, a drummer who has performed with the Barracudas, Robyn Hitchcock and the TV Personalities."
^ Light a Big Fire. Irish Punk and New Wave Discography.
^ "Mark Sheppard (Sydney & Perth)", Supanova Pop Culture Expo.
^ Rohan, Virginia. "No Mr. Nice Guy", The Bergen County Record, 2006-02-13.
^ Sullivan, Brian Ford. "On the Futon with... "Battlestar Galactica" Co-Executive Producer Mark Verheiden", The Futon Critic, 2008-05-01.
^ Dodd, Stacy. "Players: Mark Sheppard", Daily Variety, 2007-07-26.
^ Owen, Rob. "TV Review: 'Bionic Woman' dark, but intriguing", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2007-09-26.