Indie actor on the rise!
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026"/> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext="edit"> <o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1"/> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in;"><span style=""> </span>Mark Cray is an award winning, working actor born and raised in Minnesota. Throughout his childhood Mark performed in many theatrical plays including Brigadoon and The Sting along with acting in several productions for the Prairie Fire Children’s Theatre.<span style=""> </span>As a competitor in High School He went to the state and national championships as a Competitive Speech contestant in the humorous interpretation category.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in;"><span style=""> </span>After graduation he joined the Army as a Airborne Combat Engineer and got to visit such far away places as South Korea, Germany, Hawaii, France and Panama.<span style=""> </span>Sampling many different cultures and ideas.<span style=""> </span>After outstanding service to our country Mark took his new experiences and love of acting and traveled down from the land of ice and snow to expand upon his craft at University of Toledo. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in;"><span style=""> </span>At the University of Toledo Mark got his first real taste in film with the independent short film "Weeding the Garden".<span style=""> </span>And after his first year in school suddenly had to depart training and filming in order to pursue fatherhood.<span style=""> </span>Something he says he’ll never regret.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in;"><span style=""> </span>The Acting bug never left Mark and in 2004, with the loving support of his wife Colleen he returned to his calling of entertainment and in the last 6 yrs has been running amok across the Independent film scene playing every time of bad guy and villain imaginable.<span style=""> </span>Play in such films as “The Grindhouse Massacre”, "The Horror Convention Massacre",<span style=""> </span>(recipient of the "Golden Coconut" for best horror film at the Miami Underground Film Festival in March of 2007) and "Killer" a short film by Carl Merritt Productions for ChillerTV.. A few of his other credits include<span style=""> </span>"Voodoo Rising" from Fright Teck Pictures, as well as Divine Intervention, a short film from Legacyverse productions.and skit work for Space For Rent TV. He is currently working on the movies "HellKittens" by Rottweiler Production, “Teenage Axe Massacre” by Nightmare Films, a part in the Movie Abe's Tomb 2: Feral Vengeance by Carl Merritt Productions,<span style=""> </span>and “Never Escape” by Mancinetti pictures.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in;"><span style=""> </span>Mark also attends many conventions and events throughout the year and it’s at The Indie Gathering that Mark Met Anthony Spadaccini During an actors competition.<span style=""> </span>Mark and Anthony talked about his project “The Ritual”, which lead to the introduction of his character John Craven into the “Head Case” universe and was so well received Mark was brought back a second time to shoot “Post Mortem”</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in;"><span style=""> </span>Mark continues to act and helps produce film projects and is currently in production and will be acting in the Action Horror Film “Girl Scout Cookie” (the movie) starring some of today’s most prolific and talents names in independent film.</p>