Career
He is best known for his work as Lucifer in Supernatural, Paul Bennett in Dexter, Jacob in Lost and as Bishop in Being Human. He also starred as Jedikiah Price in The CW series The Tomorrow People and as Clayton Haas in the American Broadcasting Company thriller drama Quantico. Pellegrino starred as Rita"s abusive ex-con former husband Paul on Showtime"s Dexter.
And later as Lucifer on Supernatural and as the mysterious near-immortal Jacob on American Broadcasting Company"s Lost.
He has appeared on the television series Northern Exposure, Emergency, Without a Trace, The X-Files, New York City Police Department Blue, Computer Society of India: Crime Scene Investigation, and Knight Rider. He also is well known as the "Blond Thug" who stuffs The Dude"s head down the toilet and drops his bowling ball, breaking the floor tile, in the cult film The Big Lebowski.
He also is featured in "National Treasure" as the background Federal Bureau of Investigation agent known as Agent Johnson. In March 2009, Pellegrino was cast on the American Broadcasting Company series Lost for an appearance in the final episode of Season 5, to play the role of the mysterious Jacob.
Although the press release for the episode refers to his character simply as "Manitoba Number.
1", the episode revealed that Pellegrino portrayed Jacob, a mysterious character pivotal to the show"s plot. On June 26, 2009 it was also announced that Pellegrino was cast in a recurring role as Lucifer in the fifth season of the CW series Supernatural until he was returned to his prison, returning in the seventh season as a hallucination of protagonist Sam Winchester due to his mental damage after he spent a year in the Cage, until Sam was cured of his insanity. He portrayed the vampire "Bishop" in the SyFy horror series Being Human in the first season, and also reprises the role in season 2 and 3 as both flashbacks and hallucinations.
He starred as Jedikiah Price in The CW series The Tomorrow People.
In 2015, the actor joined Quantico (television series) playing the recurring role of Clayton Haas, as Federal Bureau of Investigation Deputy Director.
