Mark Andreas Sheppard was born in London, England, the son of actor W. Morgan Sheppard and Regina Lisa (née Scherer) Sheppard.[1] He is of Irish and German descent.[2]
Career
Music
Sheppard became a drummer as a teenager, buying his first drum kit in 1976, and spent many years recording and touring with artists including Robyn Hitchcock, the Television Personalities, the Finnish rock band Hanoi Rocks, and the Irish group Light a Big Fire.[3] In 1985, Sheppard played drums on Light a Big Fire's second album,[2] and was with them as the opening act for some stops on U2's 1987 The Joshua Tree Tour.[3]
He had stepped away from music when his abuse of drugs and alcohol took over his life, and stayed away after he regained sobriety and his acting career began to flourish.[3] In the 2010s, while appearing in Supernatural, he would attend fan conventions with his cast mates; co-star Rob Benedict, whose band played at the conventions, convinced Sheppard to sit in on a song in front of 3,000 attendees, and Sheppard was back. By 2017 he had rejoined Robyn Hitchcock's band on tour.[3]
Mark Sheppard directed his father, actor W. Morgan Sheppard.[9] in the film Room 101, and co-starred with him in the psychological thriller Nether World, which the younger Sheppard also co-produced. The elder Sheppard played the older version of his son's character in the aforementioned Doctor Who and NCIS episodes.[4]
Video games
He voiced the role of protagonist Michael Ford in The Conduit, whose mentor, John Adams, was voiced by W. Morgan Sheppard.
Double casting
Sheppard was cast with his father (who died in 2019) as the same character on three occasions, each playing the character at different ages:
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",[10] 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.[11]
Personal life
Sheppard was married to actress Jessica Sheppard from 2004 to 2014 when they divorced. They have two sons.[12]
On 9 November 2015, Sheppard married Australian heiress Sarah Louise Fudge.[13] In March 2016, their daughter was born,[13] and the couple held a wedding ceremony in November of that year in Malibu, California.[14]
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