Mando spent most of his childhood growing up in Accra, Ghana, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and Beirut, Lebanon, before returning home to Canada as a teen.

[5] He was enrolled in many fields, including international relations at the University of Montreal before discovering the performing arts at the Dome Theatre Program at Dawson College in 2004.

His Dome credits include Orlando in Shakespeare's As You Like It, Professor Katz in David Edgar's Pentecost, and Valentine Xavier in Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending.

[14] Mando has had repeated collaborations with directors John Fawcett and Érik Canuel as well as producer David Barlow.

[20] In 2012, Mando was cast in the first season of the science fiction television series Orphan Black, which began airing in 2013.

In 2014, Mando joined the cast of Better Call Saul, the Breaking Bad spin-off, portraying Nacho Varga, a career criminal.