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Mark Harmon

Sep 02, 1951 (73 years old) in 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.

Known For

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NCIS
Leroy Jethro Gibbs
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Family Guy
Leroy Jethro Gibbs (voice)
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The Love Boat
Doug Bradbury
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The West Wing
Simon Donovan
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JAG
Leroy Jethro Gibbs
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Adam-12
Officer Gus Corbin
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Chicago Hope
Jack McNeil
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NCIS: New Orleans
Leroy Jethro Gibbs
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Emergency!
Ofcr. Dave Gordon
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St. Elsewhere
Robert Caldwell

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