13 Facts About Mark Meer

Mark Meer is a Canadian actor, writer and improvisor, based in Edmonton, Alberta.

Mark Meer is known for his role in the Mass Effect trilogy, in which he stars as the voice of the player character, Commander Shepard.

Mark Meer's voice is featured in a number of other games from BioWare Corp.

Mark Meer starred as the male voice of the main player character, Commander Shepard, in the Mass Effect trilogy.

Mark Meer's voice is featured in a number of other games from BioWare Corp.

Mark Meer starred as the voice of the player character William Mackenzie in The Long Dark from Hinterland Studio, which features his Mass Effect counterpart, Jennifer Hale.

Mark Meer is a core company member of the Canadian Comedy Award-winning live improvised soap opera Die-Nasty, and was the first performer to complete the annual 53-hour long Die-Nasty Soap-A-Thon without sleep.

In 2005, Mark Meer was nominated for an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for co-writing the surreal sketch comedy show, Lobster Telephone, with the ladies of Panties Productions.

In December 2012, Mark Meer was voted Edmontonian of the Year in an online poll held by Gig City, an Edmonton arts and entertainment website.

Tiny Plastic Men, which Mark Meer co-created and writes for Canada's Super Channel, has been nominated at the Canadian Screen Awards for Best Comedy Series in 2014,2015, and 2016, and Mark Meer himself was nominated for the CSA for Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Comedic Role in 2015 for his work on the show.

In 2016, Mark Meer won the AMPIA Award for Best Performance by an Actor for the Tiny Plastic Men episode "Crisis on Infinite Octobers".

Mark Meer appeared at Dragon*Con 2012 cosplaying as Commander Shepard, his most famous character.

Mark Meer is married to Belinda Cornish, an actress who has done work in BioWare games as well, most notably voicing Rana Thanoptis in the Mass Effect series, and Goldanna and The Baroness in the Dragon Age series.