Mark Gessner

Mark Gessner is an American writer and actor.

Education

Gessner was born in Sheffield, Vermont in 1980.^[1] Growing up in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, Gessner performed as a child at Vermont Children's Theater in Lyndonville. Later he attended St. Johnsbury Academy and performed on the Fuller Hall stage there.^[2] He studied acting at Marymount Manhattan College and improv at New York's Upright Citizens Brigade.^[1]

Career

He has appeared in films:

• 2010 God of Love as Bartender
• 2012 Aaron Wolf's Guest House
• 2015 Youth as Shy screenwriter
• 2016 It Had to Be You starring as Mark^[3]
• 2019 Drunk Parents as Special Agent Chad Milhouse

And on TV:

• 2015 The If-Then-Else episode of Person of Interest as Gary
• 2015 Benders as Dickie Litski^[4][5][6]
• 2016 Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll as Noah Perkins
• 2017-2019 NCIS: New Orleans in season 4 and season 5 as Oliver Crane^[7]
• 2023 NCIS: Hawaiʻi episode 11, season 2 "Rising Sun" guest star as Agent Neil Pike^[7]