Most Recent Role: Chris Conroy on The Closer
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Norfolk, Virginia
Birthday: 1-22-1956
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Norfolk, Virginia
Birthday: 1-22-1956
Sexy actor John Wesley Shipp began his rise to stardom on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light where he played "Kelly Nelson" from 1980 to 1984.
After leaving GL John took on a series of soap roles until 1990 when he was cast as the lead in the CBS series The Flash . Although a fan favorite the series lasted only one season and Shipp found himself on the soap scene once again.
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Culture Shock
Monday 20 August 2007 on TNT
When a Chinese woman who owns a tour company escorting a group of Chinese diplomats is found murdered in one of her own tour busses, Brenda and the team must examine the woman's business practices in their search for the killer. Also, with Brenda back at work, it's Fritz' job to entertain her...
In 2005, John appeared in the short film Starcrossed with Marshall Allman from Prison Break. The film won First Prize for Best Drama at the PlanetOut Short Movie Awards in Miami, Florida.
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Throughout his career John has appeared on the cover of a wide variety of magazines including Soap Opera Digest, TV Guide, and Starlog.
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John says his favorite episode of The Flash was "Twin Streaks" because it gave him the chance to "stretch a bit" as an actor. In the episode Shipp not only played "The Flash," but his clone as well.
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As a cast member of Guiding Light in the early 1980s, John often appeared on-screen shirtless, in a bathing suit, or wrapped in a towel. In the 1990s he appeared in an HBO movie, Strangers, in which he did a nude scene. This whole state of undress caused John's grandmother to ask him, 'Are you ever going to do anything and keep your clothes on?' Shipp jokes that one day someone will tell him to 'keep your shirt on!'
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John says one of the people he enjoyed working with most while making the television series The Flash was Dane Farwell, who appeared in nearly every episode of the series, as John's stunt double.
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John: In and of itself, my time spent on Guiding Light and As the World Turns stands alone. It wasn't just a stepping stone. I think a lot of actors in any media would love to attempt the kind of stories I was playing.
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John: (on being The Flash) My first impression was 'No, I don't want to do a television treatment of a super-hero,' because my experience with that had been the old Spider-Man series when somebody held a rope off-camera, and I knew I didn't want to run around in a pair of red tights. But I read the script and thought that this, even free of it's comic book roots, was a character that I would enjoy playing.
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John: I love the whole process and experience of acting. I feel blessed to have this for my job.
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John: (on The Flash) It was a great experience for me, it was a great show, it was an exciting show. We got a lot of attention, a lot of critical acclaim. It did a lot for me in my transition from theater and soap opera to prime time.
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Other Appearances
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As The World Turns
Douglas Cummings (1985-1986) |
Baby of the Bride
Dennis "Denny" Becker |
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Dawson's Creek
Mitch Leery |
Guiding Light
Kelly Nelson (1980 - 1984) |
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One Life to Live
Blanchard Lovelace (1989) |
Sisters
Lucky (1994-1995) |
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CSI: NY
Sweet Sixteen Patrick Quinn |
Fantasy Island
The Songwriter / Queen of the Soaps |
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Human Target
Designed by Chance Garner St. John |
JAG
War Cries Sgt. Granger |
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JAG
What If ... Col. Marcus Sutter |
NYPD Blue
Jumpin' Jack Fleishman Roy Larson |
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Palmetto Pointe
TBA |
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Dawson's Creek
The Long Goodbye Mitch Leery |
Dawson's Creek
Capeside Revisited Mitch Leery |
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"Underrated"Perfect I first hear of John Wesley Shipp when he starred in the tv show based on the comic book hero The Flash. I do not currently watch soaps, but I do have high hopes that someday he will return to night time tv and show up on the silver screen. Continue » Posted Aug 2, 2005 7:12 pm PST |
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