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Mark Ross Pellegrino (born April 9, 1965) is an American actor of film and television. He is best known for his work as Lucifer in Supernatural, Paul Bennett in Dexter, Jacob in Lost, James Bishop in Being Human, Clayton Haas in ABC's thriller Quantico, and Deputy Bill Standall in 13 Reasons Why.

Early life
Mark Pellegrino is a German-American born in Los Angeles, California.

He went to a Notre Dame High School. Through this school he started to study the act of respecting.

He grew up in Van Nuys, California. During this time he went to college, got straight As, worked at a gas station, and then proceeded to drop out after a year. After he dropped out he realized he needed to do something with his life and saw an advertisement for a modeling agency at a place called John Roberts Powers, where he received some free training for a while. During his training there he was picked out for talent by commercial agent Bob Hoover. He was set up with an agent and acting coaches. From there he was sent out into the world of acting and discovered the Meisner acting method. He had no dream to become an actor at the time.

His biological father's name is Gerry who is of German descent. He had a step-father named Bill Pellegrino who his mother divorced when he was two years old. He went through his whole life thinking Bill was his biological father. To gather more information about his background he did a search on ancestry.com to find out his heritage. He found out through the website he did not have any Italian blood in his DNA. Before the COVID pandemic he asked fans of TV show Supernatural on Twitter if they would be interested in finding his real father. Within an hour of posting, his father was found along with the knowledge of having two sisters and three brothers.