Mark Harmon

Acting

Born Sep 02, 1951

From Burbank, California, USA

Thomas Mark Harmon (born September 2, 1951) is an American actor, producer and director. He is known for playing the lead role of Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS (2003-2021), a role which has earned him six nominations at the People's Choice Awards including a win for Favorite TV Crime Drama Actor in 2017. Since 2008, he has also been a producer and executive producer of the show as well as its' spinoff series NCIS: New Orleans. His character of NCIS special agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs was introduced in a guest starring role in two episodes of JAG, and continued on the spinoff show NCIS. He had a recurring role as Secret Service special agent Simon Donovan in a four-episode story arc in The West Wing in 2002, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. One of his first national TV appearances (other than as an athlete) was in a commercial for Kellogg's Product 19 cereal with his father, Tom Harmon, its longstanding TV spokesman. Thanks to his sister Kristin's in-laws, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, he landed his first job as an actor in an episode of Ozzie's Girls. He has been starring in television and film since the mid-1970s, after a career as a collegiate football player with the UCLA Bruins. He's been married to actress Pam Dawber since 1987 and they have 2 sons. His son, actor Sean Harmon, had a recurring role as a young Leeroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS.

Mark Harmon

Known For

Freakier Friday

Freaky Friday

Natural Born Killers

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Wyatt Earp

Summer School

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

Crossfire Trail

Chasing Liberty

The Presidio

Filmography — Acting

Freakier Friday

Freaky Friday

Natural Born Killers

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Wyatt Earp

Summer School

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

Crossfire Trail

Chasing Liberty

The Presidio

The Last Supper

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

The Deliberate Stranger

After the Promise

Weather Girl

Comes a Horseman

Let's Get Harry

NCISverse: The First 1,000

Worth Winning

Stealing Home

Sweet Bird of Youth

Original Sins

Prince of Bel Air

Little Mo

For All Time

Cold Heaven

Dillinger

Fourth Story

Tuareg: Desert Warrior

Certain Prey

Magic in the Water

I'll Remember April

Shadow of a Doubt

Sonic Boom

Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

Local Boys

Casualties

Till There Was You

Flamingo Road

Intimate Agony

And Never Let Her Go

The Amati Girls

Getting Married

The First to Go

Intimate Portrait: Pam Dawber

Long Road Home

The Wild