THE
ACTOR:
Mark
Hildreth is
an accomplished actor and has worked in film, television, voiceover
and theater for over 20 years. A graduate of the National Theatre
School of Canada, Mark has appeared on stage since the age of
5, and has gone on to appear in over 30 films and television series.
He came to the screen playing Mare Winningham's son in the Joseph
Sergeant TV-movie Love Is Never Silent (1985), and has
appeared in the films and telefilms Past Perfect,
Y2K and Wolf Lake, among others. Mark began doing voiceovers at the age of 10 and has now voiced characters in over 40 animated productions spanning the past 18 years.
His major roles include: Angel / Warren Worthington in X-Men: Evolution, Alex Mann in Action Man, Harrison in Stargate: Infinity, and Heero Yuy in Gundam Wing.
Mark has guest starred on many television series including Supernatural, Being Erica, Andromeda,
and The Dead Zone.
Mark is a recipient of theater's Jessie Richardson award for Best
Actor.
THE
MUSICIAN:
With
two born-deaf grandparents, Mark Hildreth was an unlikely musical
prodigy. The eldest son of British parents, Mark was exposed as
a child to some of the great musical legends of the sixties and
seventies – Bob Seger, Elton John, Billy Joel, and John
Lennon, and taught himself to sing and play piano at the age of
10. At eighteen, Mark was accepted to one of Canada’s top
arts programs, in the culture-rich city of Montreal, Quebec. They
accepted 12 applicants a year – Mark was the youngest. After
playing just two gigs, he was invited to showcase at Sony/BMG
in New York, and signed a demo deal with Warne Livesey, the prodigious
producer of Midnight Oil, Holly McNarland, The The, 54-40, and
The Mathew Good Band. Having sold over 15 million records in his
career to that point, Mr. Livesey knew that Mark’s first
album, Complex State Of Attachment, an instantly hummable collection
of pop/R&B songs rife with heart, honesty and groove, would
be a success. It was around this time that Mark’s life suddenly
changed. One of his closest friends died suddenly of a drug overdose.
With this momentous event, Mark discovered a new passion for an
ideology behind his music, and the one musician who would offer
him a musical sensibility to aspire toward – Stevie Wonder.
“What really gets me about Stevie is his perspective as
a songwriter. He always writes from a standpoint of building love,
compassion and integrity in the world, and that is what I want
to do with music.” With hundreds of stage appearances under
his belt, Mark Hildreth is on a mission to leave the world a better
place than he found it through music. The winner of the 2006 Singer
Songwriter Awards, and the Billboard World Song Contest, he splits
his time between Los Angeles and Vancouver, Canada. Mark has a
perspective and an emotional depth that is rare in this world,
and it only takes one meeting to see it. “I know that people
can change, that the world can change, because I changed. And
I want to share that.” Complex State Of Attachment, and
it’s first singles Magic Spell and Siddhartha, can be heard
at Mark’s website, mark-hildreth.com,
and his Myspace page, myspace.com/mhildreth.
