Mark was born in Zaragoza, Spain, and grew up in Lebanon, Illinois, and Tampa, Florida. He attended Bloomingdale High School (Illinois) and Notre Dame University, before receiving a degree in marketing in 1994 from the University of South Florida.

Mark's early acting credits include "Hello, Dolly," at the Looking Glass Playhouse in Illinois, and guest appearances on television shows such as "Fortune Hunter" and "SeaQuest." He has appeared off-Broadway in "Boy's Life," by Howard Korder, "Orphans," by Lyle Kessler, and the Penguin Repertory production of "One Shot, One Kill," by Richard Vetere. This past summer Mr. Consuelos traveled to Northern California to lens the Berkeley Theatre Project's short film, "American Canyon," by Aaron Davidman.

Mr. Consuelos, along with his on-screen and off-screen co-star Kelly Ripa, was honored with the 1997 Soap Opera Award for Hottest Romance. In May of 1999 Mr. Consuelos took home his second consecutive American Latino Media Arts Award for Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Soap Opera.