---
name: "Mark Gessner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mark-gessner"
fi1m_id: "mark-gessner"
imdb_id: "nm2166357"
tmdb_id: 1474114
wikidata_id: "Q117461988"
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-30T22:06:11.888230+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Mark Gessner

## Identity

Mark Gessner

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mark-gessner
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mark-gessner
- **IMDb ID:** nm2166357
- **TMDB ID:** 1474114
- **Wikidata ID:** Q117461988
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Gessner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117461988, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2166357/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1474114

Actor. Born in Sheffield, Vermont.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Active:** 2015–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Gessner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117461988, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2166357/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1474114

## Coming up

- *Jackrabbit* (2026-10-08)

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*It Had to Be You*](https://film.one/film/it-had-to-be-you.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Mark Gessner is an American actor and writer. He was born in Sheffield, Vermont, in 1980 and grew up in the state's Northeast Kingdom. He performed as a child at Vermont Children's Theater and later studied acting at Marymount Manhattan College and improv at New York's Upright Citizens Brigade.

Gessner has appeared in films including *Youth* (2015) as the shy screenwriter, *It Had to Be You* (2016) as Mark, and *Drunk Parents* (2019). On television, his credits include *Person of Interest* (2015), *Benders* (2015), *Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll* (2016), *NCIS: New Orleans* (2017–2019) as Oliver Crane, and *NCIS: Hawaiʻi* (2023) as Agent Neil Pike. He has also featured in episodes of *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit*, *The Blacklist*, *Orange Is the New Black*, *Billions*, and *Veep*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, rottentomatoes.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *It Had to Be You* (2016), Fi1m 70, as Mark — [page](https://film.one/film/it-had-to-be-you.md)
- *Youth* (2015), Fi1m 66, as Shy Screenwriter — [page](https://film.one/film/youth-2015.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Jackrabbit* (2026), Actor
- *Hairpiece* (2023), as John
- *A Thousand and One* (2023), as Jerry
- *Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber* (2022), series, as Gil
- *Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber* (2022), as Gil
- *NCIS: Hawaiʻi* (2021), series, as Neil Pike
- *Drunk Parents* (2019), as Agent Milhouse
- *The Other Two* (2019), series, as Director
- *9-1-1* (2018), series, as Benjamin
- *Norman Pinski Come Home* (2017), as Norman Pinski
- *It Had to Be You* (2016), as Mark — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/it-had-to-be-you.md)
- *Billions* (2016), series, as Jacobsen
- *Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll* (2015), series, as Noah
- *Youth* (2015), as Shy Screenwriter — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/youth-2015.md)
- *NCIS: New Orleans* (2014), series, as Oliver Crane
- *The Blacklist* (2013), series, as Chuck Kruse — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-blacklist.md)
- *Guest House* (2013), as Lance Wesley
- *Orange Is the New Black* (2013), series, as Ben Palmer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/tv/orange-is-the-new-black.md)
- *Made in Jersey* (2012), series, as Bridge Officer
- *Veep* (2012), series, Actor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/veep.md)
- *Person of Interest* (2011), series, as Gary — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/person-of-interest.md)
- *Toyz Goin' Wild* (2011), as Smash (voice)
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Mikey

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