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John Victor Shea III is an American actor and director who has starred on stage, television and in film. He is best known for his role as Lex Luthor in the 1990s TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and also starred in the short-lived 1990s TV series WIOU a… IMDB Wikipedia $5 million 1949 6 ft (1.84 m) Actor Actors April 14 Bates College Caiden Shea Elizabeth Mary Fuller Film director Jake Shea John B. Shea John Shea John Shea Net Worth John V. Shea John Victor Shea John Victor Shea III Jr. Laura Pettibone Laura Pettibone (m. 1971–2000) Melissa MacLeod Melissa MacLeod (m. 2001) Miranda Shea New Hampshire North Conway Screenwriter United States United States of America Voice Actor Yale School of Drama Yale University

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• When I read a role, I try to find something that I can bring to the role and something that the role brings to me. Something that I don’t know anything about and that the character can teach me.

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• At Bates College in Maine Shea ran track, played football captained the debating team, composed music, painted, and was co-editor of the literary magazine. He also acted, wrote plays, and directed them.
• He has Irish and German ancestry.
• John Shea auditioned for the role of “Indiana Jones” in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), alongside Karen Allen.
• In order to prepare for his role as a concert violinist opposite Kelly McGillis in the Isreali film Ha-Holmim (1987), John spent six months rehearsing a musical piece in New York, London and Tel Aviv for a performance scene lasting one minute.
• Became the first Hollywood actor to star in a Tamil-language film after being cast in the Indian thriller Achchamundu! Achchamundu! (2009).
• Co-emceed the largest peace demonstration in American history, the June 12, 1982 anti-nuclear rally in Central Park, New York City. This later became the subject of the Robert Richter and Stanley Warnow documentary concert film In Our Hands (1984).
• While starring in London’s West End production of Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart,” John suddenly passed out on stage after being stricken by food poisoning. Literally carried off the stage, he was revived and managed to return to finish the performance.
• For many years he played for the Hollywood All Stars, which was comprised of a group of actors who played charity baseball games around the country. He played three times at Yankee Stadium on teams that included Donald Trump, Michael Bolton, Al Pacino, Fisher Stevens, Al Franken, Paul Sorvino, Gregory Harrison and Meat Loaf.
• Wore a blond wig, false teeth and spent three months studying Bobby Kennedy’s pronounced accent in preparation for his role in the miniseries Kennedy (1983) opposite Martin Sheen as brother Jack.
• Director Costa-Gavras spotted John playing a rock and roll producer in the stage play “American Days” at the Manhattan Theatre Club and immediately cast the actor in his critically-acclaimed film Missing (1982) without an audition.
• While attending Bates College, he made his summer stock debut in Sean O’Casey’s “Juno and the Paycock” at the Nantucket Theatre Workshop. He is presently the Artistic Director of that same theatre.
• Only three men ever screen tested for the role of Indiana Jones for Steven Spielberg, John, Tom Selleck and, of course, Indiana himself, Harrison Ford.
• Appeared opposite Bianca Jagger in the play “Daniella Frank,” then later appeared with her ex-husband, Mick Jagger, in the movie Freejack (1992).
• In preparation for an explicit nude scene in the British film Hussy (1980), in which John was making his film debut, the newcomer and his co-star Helen Mirren shared a bottle of red wine.
• Made his Carnegie Hall debut playing the Soldier in Igor Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale” in 2002.
• During the first rehearsal of the TV movie Family Reunion (1981), the legendary Bette Davis asked John, who was playing her grandson, whether he smoked or not. A very nervous John lied and said he did. The star then responded, “Good, I can’t stand men who don’t smoke.” The young actor proceeded to light up two cigarettes at once, a la Paul Henreid in the Davis film Now, Voyager (1942), and gave one to Ms. Davis.
• Used Donald Trump and Richard III as character studies in preparing himself for the role of nemesis Lex Luthor in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993). During season two, he had to spend an average of three hours a day in the makeup chair to appear bald.
• Preparing for his role as a sociopath in the French thriller Lune de miel (1985) [Honeymoon] opposite Nathalie Baye, John willingly entered himself into psychoanalysis in character in NYC’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He also learned the French script and shot his scenes both in French and English.
• He was nominated for a 1977 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
• Children: Jake (born 1987), Miranda (born 2000) and Caiden (born 2004).

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