Mark's a devout Mormon. As a defensive guard in High School football, his team were the C.I.F. champions (1970). He worked each high school summer at a YMCA Summer Camp as a councilor. He worked on a 'Dude' ranch one summer. He has spent 7 years (1972 to 1979) in the U.S. Army, and although he asked to, never got the opportunity to go to Vietnam. Mark graduated from the elite NCO Academy at Camp Jackson, S. Korea (1977). He has traveled through all 50 states and all the bottom provinces of Canada. Mark was trained in microwave communications and after the Army, served with AT&T until the breakup, installing PBXs, KTSs, etc. Among the other communication jobs, he was the lead technician/ supervisor for Link-Tel, and also worked as a civilian communications tech on the island of Roi-Namur in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (1991) for a year for General Dynamics, where he did everything from fibreoptics, launch relays for NASA, and TACAN support, to motion alarms and draining seawater out of manholes.Mark has a small video/recording business on the side (MarKee Studio Productions). SCUBA Diving, Mountain Biking, MIDI, Videogaming, helping striving actors also keep him busy.As his middle-age crisis approached, he chose to fulfill a lifelong haunting dream to pursue acting, and so thus started his current career. After many acting and drama classes (and his share of hustling for 8 years) he's beginning to see success, mostly as principles in commercials, but has also acted in roles on television and the big screen. Mark has also studied ballroom dancing for 2 years.He has never married, and currently lives with his widowed mother, who occasionally needs his help. She calls him 'The Pickle Jar Opener'.
