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Mark Harmon was born on September 2, 1951, in Burbank, California, the USA as Thomas Mark Harmon. He is the youngest of three children with two sisters. His father was a football player and broadcaster, Tom Harmon and her mother was an actress and artist Elyse Knox. Both of his sisters are an actress, Kristin Nelson, and Kelly Harmon. Mark claims to have renounced his Austrian and to have adopted the American life from a very early age. Mark has completed his junior college at Los Angeles Pierce College and has graduated in B.A. in Communication from University of California, Los Angeles. He started playing for the UCLA Bruins football team as a quarterback while studying in the college. After his degree, he planned for advertising or law as his further study but stopped to pursue his career in acting.

Mark started his career initially as a merchandising director but the fate was something else He did his first commercial for Kelloggs Cereal. He got his first role from his sisters in-laws in a television series Ozzies Girl. Soon he got his another role in as a guest in Emergency!, Police Woman and Adam-12. Later he got a chance to work in movie Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years and received critical acclaim for it. He was cast for the acclaimed mini-series, Centennial as Captain John in 1978.

His other role was in a feature film, Comes a Horseman and next year he did Beyond the Poseidon Adventure. Mark also played the role of Fielding Carlisle in a primetime soap opera Flamingo Road. Dr. Robert Cardwell was is another breakthrough role in St. Elsewhere and won Emmy Award for it. he also played in the film like Lets Get Harry and Summer School. Harmon also became the spokesperson for Coors Regular beer and performed in a television commercial. Mark got a lead role in television movie Prince of Bel Air as Ted Bundy. He also worked in lead role in comedy movie Summer School. In 1988, he played the movie The Presidio as Jay Austin and Stealing Homes as Billy Wyatt. The next year he portrayed the character of Taylor Worth in the movie Worth Winning. Mark also played in 45 episodes of television series Reasonable doubts as Detective Dicky Cobb. After giving various popular roles in many movies and television series his major leap came with the role of Leroy Jethro Gibbs for the show, JAG and NCIS. In 2003 he had a supporting role in the remake of the comedy film Freaky Friday. In 2009, he was seen in the movie Weather Girls as Dale. Mark gave his voice in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths. He also gave his voice in television Movie Family Guy and worked for the role of SSA Leroy Jethro Gibbs in NICS: New Orleans. Mark has a big list of awards that he secured by giving the outstanding performance in his career. Award include Screen Actors Guild Awards for Chicago Hopes, Primetime Emmy Awards for The West Wing. People Choice Awards and Prism Awards for NCIS. Giving such a wonderful movies and television series, Mark was successful to be on the list of millionaire securing $90 million as his total net worth with the salary of $525 thousand for each episode he performs.

Talking about the rumors and controversy, there was a news that he not leaving NCIS but his previous role could be changed according to the script. Besides this, he hasnt been in any types of controversy

Moving towards his body measurements, he is 6 Feet (1.83m) tall and his weight is 78kg. He has green eyes. He has a good body shape of 40-15-34.

One of the popular American film actors, Mark Harmon is active on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. He has more than 44,925 followers on facebook and around 45,129 people like his Facebook profile.