John Victor Shea III (born April 14, 1949) is an American Emmy award-winning actor and director who has starred on stage, television and in film. He is best known for his role as Lex Luthor in the 1990s TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and also starred in the short lived 1990s TV series WIOU as Hank Zaret. Later on in the 2000s he starred on the series Mutant X as Adam Kane and in 2009, he appeared in Tamil language film Ach...
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John Victor Shea III (born April 14, 1949) is an American Emmy award-winning actor and director who has starred on stage, television and in film. He is best known for his role as Lex Luthor in the 1990s TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and also starred in the short lived 1990s TV series WIOU as Hank Zaret. Later on in the 2000s he starred on the series Mutant X as Adam Kane and in 2009, he appeared in Tamil language film Achchamundu Achchamundu, as the villain and the movie did well at the box office and was selected to many International Film Festivals.
Shea was born in North Conway, New Hampshire and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts in a family of five. His parents were Elizabeth Mary (née Fuller) and Dr. John Victor Shea, Jr., who was a teacher, coach and later an assistant Superintendent of Schools. Shea received his early training at Bates College, where he performed on the varsity debating and football teams and co-edited the college literary magazine...
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