Mark Derwin

Mark appeared on Days of Our Lives once for a week. His character, however, was dead the entire time!

Mark is close friends with his former on-screen sister Jocelyn Seagrave, who played "Julie" on Guiding Light. She even set him up on his first date with wife Alecia, who is also an actress.

Mark has appeared in television commercials for Post Grape Nuts, Nike, and Toyota. However, the Toyota spot never aired.

Before becoming an actor Mark held many jobs including: carpenter, telemarketer, truck driver, construction worker, janitor, and IBM employee.

Mark studied acting with actor Michael LaGuardia and says that LaGuardia helped him to develop confidence and faith in himself.

In 1992 Mark won a Soap Opera Digest Award in the category of "Hottest Male Star" for his work on Guiding Light. In 2000 he won another Soap Opera Digest Award, this time in the category of "Favorite Couple," which he shared with his One Life to Live co-star, Erika Slezak.

Mark is known as "The Fiesta Man" in Mexico, where he appeared in several television commercials for Fiesta Cigarettes. The gig made him $1440 total.

Mark has two siblings, one brother and one sister.

Mark says a producer once told him that he needed to start using Rogaine, to which he responded, "Worry about your own scalp, buddy!"

Mark was named "Outstanding Performer of the Week" by Soap Opera Weekly magazine for his work on One Life to Live in their September 17, 2001 issue.

Mark attended the State University of New York at Cobleskill. Unfortunately, after one semester, he and a few friends were kicked out, although he has yet to reveal why.

Mark played basketball while in high school but says he quit the team because he didn't "see the value of scrimmages." He calls that time the "beginning of my rebel years."

Mark's mother was an actress and his father was a singer. Both of his parents were from Ireland.

In 1993, Mark was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" for his work on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light. He lost to David Canary of All My Children.

In 1995, Mark and his then Guiding Light co-star, Beth Ehlers, appeared in the video for Reba McEntire's song "And Still". He and Beth were dating at that time.

Mark once dated actress Gina Tognoni. Ironically, both have appeared on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light, although not at the same time.

After Mark left the cast of The Young & The Restless his former cast mates sent him a pair of boxer shorts with the faces of the Y&R cast silk screened on them.

Mark has a "Bacon Number" of 2.
He was in The Minus Man with John Vargas,
John was in Only When I Laugh with Kevin Bacon.