John Shea (born April 14, 1949 in North Conway, New Hampshire, USA) is an Emmy award winning American actor who has starred on 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 syndicated TV series Mutant X as Adam Kane.

Shea has acted in such films such as Windy City (1984), Light Years (1988) as the voice of Sylvain, Freejack (1992), and Godless (2005), and he wrote and directed the award-winning independent film, Southie (1998) starring Amanda Peet, Donnie Wahlberg, Rose McGowan, Anne Meara, and Lawrence Tierney.

Shea has considerable stage experience in Off Broadway and Broadway shows, starring in productions such as Yentl, How I Learned to Drive, Down the Garden Path, and the hit off-Broadway play The Director. Shea is also a regular reader on Selected Shorts, broadcast nationwide on Public Radio International.

He has made guest appearances on TV shows, including Eight Is Enough, Barnaby Jones, Sex and the City, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Medium, and he received an Emmy for his role in the TV movie Baby M.

Shea is a 1970 graduate of Bates College in Maine, where he was introduced to theater his freshman year by a friend on the football team. He also gained national recognition on the Bates debate team, including a victory over Harvard in 1970. Shea subsequently attended Yale School of Drama where he earned his MFA in directing.

Growing up in Springfield, Massachusetts, Shea was one of four children, two of whom became chiropractors. Shea has married twice. He and his first wife, Laura Pettibone, had one child together, Jake. He and his current wife, Melissa, have two children, Miranda and Caiden.

John "Red" Shea (b. August 12, 1965) was an Irish-American mobster from Boston involved in narcotics and an associate of crime kingpin Whitey Bulger and the Winter Hill Gang during the 1980s and 90s. He was indicted on cocaine trafficking charges in 1990 and served 12 years in prison.

Shea wrote a book called Rat Bastards; The Story of South Boston's Most Honorable Irish Mobster about his experience with the Winter Hill Gang. The main theme of the book is that he is a "stand-up guy" who refused to accept a plea deal to testify against his associates; and consequently had to serve the full sentence for his conviction.

John D. Shea is a New Hampshire Democratic politician currently representing District 2 in the New Hampshire Executive Council.

Shea was elected to the Council in 2006, defeating 12-term incumbent Peter Spaulding. He benefited from robust support for the Democrats in New Hampshire's 2006 elections, which saw the party take both of the state's Congressional seats and win control of both houses of the state legislature. The victory came as a surprise to Shea, who put his name forward mainly so that there would be a Democratic name on the ballot, and did not expect to win. hampshire/articles/2006/11/09/who_is_john_shea/" target="_blank">Who is John Shea? - Boston.com He departed on election night for a two-week vacation in Belgium, only learning of his victory after arriving at his hotel the following day.

Shea, a graduate of Burdett College in _Boston, was a Keene city councilor and state representative in the 1960s. He currently resides in Nelson, New Hampshire.

John Shea (born February 10, 1964, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA) is an American playwright. Known for his dark and humorous dramas, Shea has been likened to Ernest Hemingway.

Best known to TV audiences for his recurring role as the evil Lex Luthor in the early 90s "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" (1993) TV series, handsome, slim-faced, curly-haired actor John Shea (born 1949) is a native of Massachusetts and received his BA from Bates College, which he managed to achieve on a debating and football scholarship. He next attended Yale and earned an MFA in directing from the School of Drama. Following New York stage work, initial on-camera notice came on TV with his portrayal of Joseph in the mini-movie Nativity, The (1978) (TV) and a few years later in the small but memorable role of the impassioned, ill-fated American idealist who becomes a casualty to Chilean war-torn politics in Costa-Gavras' Academy Award-winning thriller Missing (1982). Jack Lemmon (I) and Sissy Spacek, who respectively played his despairing father and wife, were nominated for Oscars for their roles. Critical kudos and awards have also come in John's direction over the years. In Windy City (1984) opposite Kate Capshaw, he earned the Best Actor Award at the Montreal Film Festival. On stage he received a Drama Desk award for "American Days," an Obie award for "The Dining Room," and a 1976 Theatre World Award for his portrayal of the Jewish student Avigdor in "Yentl." The role was later portrayed by Mandy Patinkin in Barbra Streisand's 1983 film adaptation. On television John was awarded the coveted Emmy for his depiction of the distressed husband and father wannabe who touches off a legal landmark case in the miniseries Baby M (1988) (TV). In a career pocked with interesting ranges and choices he has played everything from a young Nazi in the miniseries Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil (1985) (TV) to Robert F. Kennedy in the epic-styled "Kennedy" (1983) (mini). He has kept his face alive in guest parts over the years on such well-received series as "Sex and the City," "Tales From the Crypt," "The Hitchhiker" and "Law and Order." A budding Irish-American filmmaker, John co-wrote, directed and appeared in the low budget film Southie (1998), a drama set in the Irish-American section of Boston. The film won the Jury Award for Best Independent Film at the 1998 Seattle International Film Festival. Most recently he found popularity on the "Mutant X" (2001) sci-fi series playing the role of Adam Kane. More recently he has appeared on episodes of "Law & Order" and "Medium." A father of two and founding member of the Nantucket Film Festival, John is based in New York City with his second wife Melissa.