Chelsey Mark

Canadian Actor Chelsey Mark, was born Chelsey Lee Mark on May 9th, 1978 in Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada. His ancestry is Metis and Chinese, as well as Portuguese, French and German. He is the son of Inky Mark, Member of Parliament (14 years) and Lynda Mark, secretary. Chelsey is the second of their two children, with an older brother, Ashley. Raised on the farm until grade six, the Mark family then moved into the City of Dauphin where he attended Henderson Elementary School, McKenzie Junior High and Dauphin Regional Comprehensive High School, where he was high school president.Following graduation from Brandon University with a major in Sociology and a minor in Psychology and Drama, Chelsey moved to China. After touring the country as a lead singer and guitarist (2002-2005), he received his first big break when he won the first round of The Star Road (2005), boosting his TV singing career. Over the course of two years (2005-2007), Chelsey competed in several singing competitions and American Idol-type showcases, opened several stadium tours and won an award in the Sprite Wo Xing Wo Xiu singing competition.Thanks to his talent and growing reputation, Chelsey became the official TV personality and emcee for "NBA Made in China", the NBA's official TV show in China (2007). As part of the NBA family, Chelsey traveled the world, interviewed countless NBA legends and all-stars, attended four NBA All-Star games and became the face of the NBA in China.Owing to this success as an emcee, a wave of hosting opportunities followed, including TV shows and live branding events (2007 to present). Major TV shows included NBA Made in China, Top Gear, Let's Music and Travelogue. Chelsey also emcee'd countless live branding events for Taylor Swift, BMW, Microsoft, Nike, Dwayne Wade, Men's Health and American Airlines.In 2012 Chelsey won the lead role of Felix in a Chinese version of The Odd Couple at the Chinese National Theatre (The Egg) in Beijing. After studying with famous Chinese theatre director Guwei on The Odd Couple, the project paved the way for him to embark on his acting career: Harbin Story (2013), Chasing Love (2015), The War of 1945 (2015), Army of Descendants (2016), The Tutor (2016), Bratya (2017) and Hometown on the Cloud (2017) followed in the years after his theatre role.Relocating to Canada brought big rewards, with Chelsey becoming an Actra member while filming Stand! (2018) and Fatal Friend Request (2018). Chelsey finished off the year in China filming the feature film Variant (2018) as the Lead Villain.The year of the Pig has been very gracious to Chelsey booking roles on Amazon Prime's Tales from the Loop (2019), CBC's Burden of Truth (2019), APTN's Tribal (2019) feature film The First Encounter (2019) and performing as a stunt actor in Rusty Cundieff's Tales from the Hood 3 (2019). One of the highlights for Chelsey in 2019 was being blessed working with talented directors on each project. The major highlight was receiving one on one direction from Academy award winning director Jodie Foster while filming Tales from the Loop.Kickstarting his filmmaking career, Chelsey won a spot in the Whistler Indigenous Fellowship at the Whistler Film Festival(2019) with his short The Callback. Show less «