Mark Andreas Sheppard is a British-American actor and musician. He is often credited as "Mark A. Sheppard". Sheppard is known for playing the demon/King of Hell Crowley on Supernatural and for his recurring roles as lawyer Romo Lampkin on the Battlestar Galactica reboot, Interpol investigator James Sterling on Leverage, and small-time crime lord Badger on Joss Whedon's Firefly.
Career
Music
At 15, he became a professional musician and enjoyed many years as a recording and touring artist with bands including Robyn Hitchcock, the 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 starred in the American production of the playCock and Bull Story, 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, ', The Chronicle, Monk, Las Vegas, ', Chuck, and White Collar, among others. Mark played a demon named Arnon on an episode titled "Witches in Tights" on the TV seriesCharmed. 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 hitThe Middleman. He has been seen as Anthony Anthros on Bionic Woman, as Sterling the nemesis character on Leverage, as the King of Hell Crowley on Supernatural, and as bank robber Tom Prescott on an episode of Burn Notice. He appeared in the pilot episode of the US series White Collar as a villainous master forger and in NBC's Chuck as the Director of the Ring criminal organisation. 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 the character Canton Everett Delaware III. This was the first time Sheppard had appeared in a British TV series. In October 2013, Sheppard returned to White Collar, reprising his 2009 role as master forger Curtis Hagen.
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 dramaOut of the Cold; the thriller Unstoppable; and with Heather Graham and Jeremy Sistoin 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-starred with him in the psychological thriller Nether World, which the younger Sheppard also co-produced. His father also played the older version of Mark's character in the aforementioned Doctor Who and NCIS episodes.
Video games
He voiced the role of protagonist Michael Ford in The Conduit, whose mentor, John Adams, is voiced by his father W. Morgan Sheppard.
Double casting
Sheppard was cast with his father as the same character on three occasions, each playing the character at different ages:
Canton Everett Delaware III in the Doctor Who episode "The Impossible Astronaut";
War criminal Marcin Jarek a.k.a. "Mr. Pain" in the NCIS episode "Broken Bird"; and
Captain Nemo in the 2010 film Jules Verne's Mysterious Island, which Mark also directed.
In the Macgyver reboot episode, "Cigar Cutter", which first aired 14 April 2017, he plays an assassin who assumes the identity of murder victim "Dr. Zito", a role his father played in the original series, except "Dr. Zito" was the name of the killer.
Voice
Since 2011, Mark Sheppard has been "The Voice" of "BBC America" promos and announcements.
Personal life
Sheppard is the son of actor W. Morgan Sheppard. Sheppard married his first wife, Jessica, in 2004. They have two sons, Max and Will, and divorced in 2014. On 9 November 2015, Sheppard married Sarah Louise Fudge. They celebrated their union in a private ceremony a year later on 19 November 2016 in Malibu, California. On 1 March 2016, their daughter, Isabella Rose, was born.
