Mark McGraw
Acting
Biography
Mark McGraw is a former firefighter (Oregon), carpenter and actor. He is the half-brother of country singer/actor, Tim McGraw, and son of Phillies baseball player, Tug McGraw. He was a carpenter on HGTV's kitchen renovation show, Spice Up My Kitchen, alongside the other main carpenter, Jeff Devlin, as well as host/designer, Lauren Lake. He was also a correspondent for 6 episodes of CMT Insider. He has appeared in movies (and shorts) to include The Sensei (2008), No Boundaries (2009) and Dead & Deader (2006).
Known For
Lonely gay teenager, McClain, struggles to fit in with his classmates in a small, conservative Colorado town. After he's severely beaten at school, Karen O'Neil, a martial arts Sensei, secretly trains him to defend himself. When the town discovers their secret, a series of catastrophic events unfolds.
The Sensei
When a kitchen is so dysfunctional and ugly that every night is take-out, Spice Up My Kitchen steps in to cook up a hot new space. Designer Lauren Lake and her carpenter duo, Jeff Devlin and Mark McGraw, take kitchens that the homeowners think are outdated or ugly, tear them down and rebuild them from scratch -- providing the homeowners with brand-new kitchens. Designer Lauren Lake presents the homeowners with two design plans based on their budget and wish list. The homeowners choose a plan then before they know it, their old kitchen is transformed into a delicious new space.
Spice Up My Kitchen
Isabel Moreno crosses the border into the United States, thinking only of making enough money to save her deathly ill mother. In Philadelphia, she finds comfort in her cousin Martin and is embraced by his neighbors, Gloria and Maurice. She is surprised to find a new family far from home, but even more surprised to fall in love with the one man that could put her right back where she started, Christopher Fox, an immigration agent. Faced with an ultimatum, Isabel is forced to question her loyalties and choose between her freedom and the love of her life.