Name	John Shea
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	14-April-1949
Place of Birth	North Conway, New Hampshire, U.S.
Famous for	Acting

John Shea is an American 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.

He studied acting and directing at the Yale School of Drama under Dean Robert Brustein, gaining an MFA in Directing in 1973. During his time at the School of Drama, he also performed at the Yale Repertory Theatre, in the Yale cabaret with schoolmates Joe Grifasi and Meryl Streep, and studied film with Arthur Penn and Sidney Lumet at the Film School.

Shea has starred in many films, including Armyan Bernstein's Windy City (opposite Kate Capshaw for which he won a "Best Actor" award at the Montreal Film Festival in 1984); Stealing Home with Mark Harmon, Jodie Foster and Blair Brown; the French thriller Lune de Miel with Nathalie Baye (also known as Honeymoon, shot in both French and English); Uri Barbash's epic Unsettled Land (Israel, 1987) with Kelly McGillis; Alan Alda's comedy A New Life with Alan Alda and Ann-Margret; Jim Goddard's The Impossible Spy with Eli Wallach, also shot in Israel ("Best Actor" Golden Panda Award in China); the futuristic Freejack (1992) with Rene Russo; and the comedy Honey, I Blew Up the Kid with Rick Moranis. Shea made his debut into Indian cinema with the 2009 Tamil drama Achchamundu! Achchamundu!, directed by Indo-American film director Arun Vaidyanathan, becoming the first American actor to work in a Tamil film.