Next person biography:
Mark originally hails from a small town in Massachusetts, with a population of only 1,500, which is considered small, but almost the size of Los Angeles. Born in Japan, his parents lived there for about three years, where his father was a Music Professor and his mother worked for the U.S. Government. Mark was born mid-way through their stay and then the family moved back to Massachusetts about a year and a half after his birth. He has a younger brother who was born four years later.
Mark started studying acting at the age of 16 and began commuting over 90 miles to take classes in Boston, MA and Hartford, CT at 17. He won the high school drama award his senior year at 18. Mark continued to study acting in college at the University of Massachusetts, while also learning the technical side of the business, including camera, audio, editing, chyron, directing, and producing. He had the opportunity to do two back-to-back internships at a television station on Cape Cod, which was unprecedented at the time. After graduating, Mark worked for a local ABC affiliate in Springfield, MA for about a year before moving to Hollywood to pursue acting.
After moving to Los Angeles, Mark broke into the entertainment business, working as an Executive Assistant for over ten years to several Presidents and Vice Presidents at major studios, including 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros, MGM, and Turner Broadcasting (Cartoon Network, TBS, and TNT).
