Jeff Parker was born in Burbank, California and raised in Sherman Oaks, California. He is the son of Michael C. Parker and Deborah Greaney Parker (deceased). He attended St. Francis De Sales Catholic School and Notre Dame High School, both in Sherman Oaks, California. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Southern California. He is a professional actor and resides in Chicago, Illinois with his wife, Northlight Theatre Artistic Administrator, Lynn Baber and two daughters Grace and Constance. He is the great-grandson of Peter Mole, founder, in 1927, of the Mole-Richardson Company, a pioneering motion picture lighting manufacturer. Jeff also teaches acting and directs at Northwestern University's National High School Institute (a.k.a "the cherub program"), a renowned, high school theatre intensive that has been attended by numerous show business professionals.