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Mark Dacascos is a male artist from the United Kingdom who began his professional career in 1985. His musical output includes works in the genres of blues rock, border reiver, classic rock, film score, and film soundtrack. He has three children and maintains an official website.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1949-08-12
Discography
- Neck and Neck1990
- Golden Heart1996
- Sailing to Philadelphia2000
- The Ragpicker’s Dream2002
- Shangri‐La2004
- All the Roadrunning2006
- Kill to Get Crimson2007
- Get Lucky2009
- Privateering2012
- Tracker2015
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 18
- Total plays
- 35
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mark+Dacascos">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,856x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,063x
- Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches
· 1995 · cited 40,215x
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 39,691x
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,411x
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Key facts
- Born
- Mark Alan Dacascos , ( 1964-02-26 ) February 26, 1964 (age 62) , Honolulu , Hawaii , U.S.
- Other names
- Marc Dacascos The Chairman
- Alma mater
- Portland State University
- Occupations
- Actor martial artist television personality
- Years active
- 1985–present
- Spouse
- Julie Condra ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1998 )
- Website
- dacascos .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mark
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Honolulu
- Spouse
- Julie Condra
- Occupation
- film director
- Educated at
- Portland State University
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Native language
- English language
- Sport
- Muay Thai
- Country for sport
- United States
- Official website
- www.dacascos.com
- Image
- Mark Dacascos - Drive 1997.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
Show 6 more facts
- Commons category
- Mark Dacascos
- date of birth
- 1964-02-26
- start of work period
- 1985-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Mark Dacascos
- birth name
- Mark Alan Dacascos
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
Mark Alan Dacascos (born February 26, 1964) is an American actor, martial artist and television personality. A 4th-degree black belt in Wun Hop Kuen Do, he is known for his roles in action films, including as Louis Stevens in Only the Strong (1993), the title role in Crying Freeman (1995), Mani in Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001), for which he was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, the antagonist Ling in Cradle 2 the Grave (2003), Sharish in Nomad (2005), and as the assassin Zero in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019).
On television, Dacascos is known for his portrayal of Wo Fat on Hawaii Five-0 (2010–2020), and for serving as "The Chairman" of Food Network's Iron Chef America series since January 2005, a role he reprised in 2022 on Netflix's Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend. Dacascos' other roles include Kung Lao in the web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy, Eric Draven on The Crow: Stairway to Heaven and Eubulon on Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight. He also competed in the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars.
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