Swedish-American model and actress, Mercedes Mason has appeared on numerous television shows, including Entourage, The Closer, NCIS, CSI: NY, Traffic Light, Chuck, The Finder, and The Rookie. Her film college debut with an uncredited role as Goblet Girl in Breaking Up leads to more film appearances in Quarantine 2: Terminal, Three Veils, General Education and many more. Here are some other interesting facts about him.
Mercedes Mason Bio: Age and Ethnicity
The Swedish-American movie star was born on March 3, 1983, in Linkoping, a city in southern Sweden. She grew up with her Persian father, mother and sister in the Ryd Linkoping district of Sweden. Her family moved to America when Mercedes was 12 and they lived in Chicago. In high school, her tall stature got her signed up with the Ford Modeling Agency.
Mercedes Mason graduated from high school and then studied psychology at university. In college, she landed an uncredited role in the romantic comedy film, Breaking Up. She appears there alongside stars such as Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn. From 2005 to 2006, she debuted on the ABC television show, One Life to Live taking on the role of a Red Cross nurse appearing in three episodes.
After playing two uncredited roles in movies like Now and Nowhere (2008) and Red Sands (2009), Mercedes Mason got her big break in a lead role in the 2011 horror film Quarantine 2: Terminal. In the film, she starred as Jenny along with Bre Blair, Josh Cooke and Mattie Liptak. That same year, she portrayed the role of Leila in the award-winning film, Three Veils.
Following her excellent performance in three Voils, Mason was nominated for the Best Actress award as part of the UK International Filmmakers Festival. The film itself also won Best Feature at the ARPA International Film Festival. Other critically acclaimed films she has appeared on are The Buds as Angelique, General Education as Bebe Simmons, Slightly Single in LA (2013) as Stacey, Sniper: Legacy and a host of other films.
Mercedes Mason has also developed a prolific profile in television shows. After her debut, she played Kara in an episode of the 2008 TV series, Entourage. In 2009, she played Theresa Ramirez in The Law. That same year, Mercedes portrayed Katherine Ortega in The Closest and was part of the cast of two crime television shows NCIS as police officer Heather Kincaid and CSI: NY as Frankie Tyler.
From 2009 to 2010 Mercedes starred in four episodes of the TV show. Three rivers like Vanessa. She made appearances in Castle as Marina Casillas and All Signs of Death in Soledad and Traffic Light as Sherry. Mercedes rose to fame for her role in the comedy action show Chuck where she starred alongside Zachery Levi, Adam Baldwin, Yvonne Strahovski and Joshua Gomez. Her character, Zondra Rizzo, is a member of CAT Team.
She shared the role of lead actress with Maddie Hasson in the television drama series The Finder in 2012. She later became the series’ regular rep, portraying Deputy Marshal Isabel Zambada alongside Geoff Stults, Toby Hemingway and Michael Clarke Duncan. Mercedes appeared in two episodes of Common Law as Ellen Sandoval and in 2012 she was in nine episodes of television series 666 Park Avenue as Louise Leonard.
Mercedes Mason has debuted in other roles including White City, NCIS: Los Angeles as DEA Agent, Talia Del Campo, Californication (2014) as Amy Taylor Walsh, Anger Management (2014) as Maggie and many others. She indeed has many works to her name and also works hard to maintain her relevance.
Family: parents, spouse and children
Mercedes Mason’s parents were Iranian immigrants to Sweden before they came to America with their two daughters. The actress is a polyglot. she is fluent in English, French, Persian and Spanish. In a September 2016 interview with Skavlan, Mason confessed that she no longer speaks Swedish but still understands. In April 2016, she applied for and passed her US citizenship test and became a Swedish-American citizen.
Mercedes married actor and boyfriend DavidDeman in a private ceremony with friends and family on September 13, 2014. Not much is known about her husband. However, the couple welcomed son Caius Kane on January 10, 2018.
Her size
The actress who appeared as Ofelia Salazar as a series regular from 2015 to 2017 in the post-apocalyptic horror series, Fear the Walking Dead, stands proudly at 1.75m. She weighs around 57 kg and wears a size 8 (US) for her shoes. Mason whose body stats measure 36-25-36 inches will hardly go anywhere unnoticed with his dark brown hair and handsome face.