Table of Biography
Mark Ghanime is an actor as well as a producer. Mark Ghanime came to fame after playing his different roles as Major Sergio Ballesteros on the Syfy series Helix and as Don Carlos on The CW series Reign.
Early Life and Childhood
Mark Ghanime’s current age is 46 years. He was born on 1st December 1977 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Mark grew up in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has both citizenships of Lebanon-Canada. Similarly, his mother was Canadian and his father was Lebanese.
Though he was raised in Montreal, Quebec, he fluently speaks English, French, and Arabic from an early age due to his diverse heritage. He has mixed Lebanese-Canadian ancestry.
Mark grew up focusing on academics with the intent of becoming a businessman and going into real estate. He was not creative in high school and did not take drama classes or play musical instruments.
In his early twenties, Mark Ghanimé began taking vocal lessons and hip-hop dance classes to explore his creative side.
In 2004, he had an uncredited, background role in Chasing Freedom starring Juliette Lewis. While on set, he became passionate about acting and knew he wanted to pursue it as a career.
Caption: Mark Ghanime starring in a photoshoot (Source: Net Worth Post)
Mark Ghanime – Net Worth 2024
The stunning actor has earned a handsome amount of money to fulfill his needs. He has earned a net worth of around $600 thousand. As an actor, he even earns $22,718 per year or $11.65 per hour.
Personal Life
Mark hasn’t any information regarding his marital status. However, he has a daughter named Mika. He often posts photos of her, but he never shows his daughter’s face. Mark rather likes to keep his personal life away from the public.
Moreover, his IMDb bio also mentions that he is raising a daughter alongside his partner in Montreal.
Focusing on his past relationship, he hasn’t made girlfriends nor has chosen a life partner. He usually doesn’t speak about his personal life in the media or in public as well hasn’t mentioned his affairs publically. Moreover, he even has managed to keep it low profile.
Currently, he resides in Vancouver, Canada but sometimes visits Montreal where his parents reside. He keeps on traveling to Los Angeles for his several acting ventures.
The actor keeps on visiting Lebanon numerous times for shining his characters to bring a positive light to the Middle East in his acting.
Professional Life
Mark’s desire to immerse himself in the industry grew and his ethnically ambiguous strength afforded him the ability to play a myriad of archetypes – from good to bad and those piercing green eyes command attention when he’s on the screen, big or small.
After starting his career acting in commercials, Mark Ghanimé was cast in his first guest-starring role as Graham in the CBC Television series Wild Roses.
He then had small guest-starring roles on Smallville and Supernatural in 2010 and The Secret Circle, Fairly Legal, and Arrow in 2012.
Starting in 2012, Mark had a recurring role as Dr. Jamie Albagetti on The CW series Emily Owens, M.D. and a starring role as Daniel Goose-Egg on the web series Soldiers of the Apocalypse, for which he also served as associate producer.
In 2013, he had supporting roles as Run in the Showcase miniseries Eve of Destruction and as the museum curator in the Hallmark Channel television movie The Hunters.
The highlight of the career
Mark’s most significant role came in 2014 when he was cast as a series regular in the Syfy original series Helix, playing Major Sergio Ballesteros who guides a team of CDC scientists to investigate a disease outbreak at a research facility in the arctic.
The series was canceled on April 29, 2015, and aired for two seasons.
In 2015, he appeared in the recurring role of Don Carlos in the third season of The CW series Reign.
He also recurred as Justin Faysal on the Chiller horror anthology series Slasher in 2016. Mark Ghanimé recurs in the second season of Private Eyes, playing the romantic interest of the main character, Angie Everett, played by Cindy Sampson.
Caption: Mark Ghanime at the shoot for the TV episode “Helix” Single Strand (Source: IMDB)
As of the year 2019, he has worked in the TV mini-series Dark Universe as Ryan Runyon and in the short film Quantum Knights as Oliver Knight. Moreover, he has even starred in various TV shows and series.
Mark has visited Lebanon numerous times and wishes to portray more Middle-Eastern characters to bring a positive light to the Middle East and accentuate the beauty of countries such as Lebanon which he says are rarely portrayed positively in the media.
Ghanimé resides in Vancouver but frequently travels to Los Angeles for business engagements and to Montreal, where his family resides, for holidays and other events.
Social Media
For 42 years, the old stunning actor is active on social media including Facebook and Twitter. He had gained more than 8.9k followers on Twitter (@markghanime) and more than 3k followers on Facebook (@MarkGhanimeOfficial).
He also has an Instagram account @themarkghanime in which he has 1218 followers.
Mark Ghanime – Body Measurements
Mark has a height of 5 feet 10 inches tall and owns weighs 89 kg. Similarly, he has a beautiful black hair color with a pair of greenish eyes.