| Mark Hildreth | |
| Birth Date: | 24 January 1978 |
| Birth Place: | Vancouver, Canada |
| Occupation: | Actor |
| Years Active: | 1985–present |
Mark Hildreth (born 24 January 1978) is a Canadian actor appearing in movie and television roles. A graduate of The National Theatre School of Canada, Mark Hildreth's theater credits include Hamlet (The Shakespeare Project), Bertram in All's Well that Ends Well (Bard on the Beach), Richard of Gloucester in Richard III (NTSC) and Cale Blackwell in Fire (Teatre Lac Brome). He also starred as Pastor Tom Hale in the ABC drama Resurrection.[1]
Active as an actor since 1986, Hildreth has provided voiceovers since the age of 10, when he was cast as the voice of Beany in DiC Entertainment's production of Beany and Cecil. Since then, major roles have included: Caz in The New Adventures of He-Man, Alex Mann in Action Man; Hi-Tech in the direct-to-video CGI animated movies and ; Quicksilver in Wolverine and the X-Men; Terry Bogard in the Fatal Fury series; Oberon in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"; Harrison in ; and Heero Yuy in Gundam Wing.
He provided voices for enemy soldiers for the video game ,[2] and for the character DJ Atomika in SSX 3, SSX Blur, SSX (2012 video game), and Burnout Paradise.
Hildreth also appears in stage productions: In 2001, Hildreth played the role of Eugene Marchbanks in the Vancouver Playhouse production of George Bernard Shaw's Candida, for which he received a Jessie Richardson award for best performance by an actor in a leading role.
In 2003, he joined the band Davis Trading as a keyboardist and singer. Hildreth left Davis Trading in 2004 to go solo; he formed his own band with guitarist Jory Neal Groberman and drummer Amrit Basi. He writes and sings all original music. In 2008, he released an album titled "Complex State of Attachment." In December 2012, he released his second album, "Signs of Life".
He appeared in the ABC-TV series V as Joshua, and Cartoon Network's Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 as Vert Wheeler.
Hildreth was a member of NXIVM, a now-defunct self-improvement organisation widely described as a cult.[3] Hildreth had a long-term relationship with actress Kristin Kreuk and reportedly introduced Kreuk to NXIVM, which she joined in 2006.[4] [5] Hildreth left NXIVM and subsequently disavowed the group in 2021.[6]