He was a professional basketball player who was going to change his life and make a career as a lawyer, but fate intervened and changed plans. Before the entrance exam to law school, Mark decided to watch the film “Some Good Guys” (1992), which takes place in the courtroom. To his surprise, he realized that he did not admire the work of a lawyer, but the game of an actor playing his role. A few years later, Blucas Mark became a popular actor with notable works on television and film and took a worthy place in the Hollywood community.
Childhood and youth
Mark was born on January 11, 1972. He spent his childhood and youth in the small town of Girard, Pennsylvania. The son of a school inspector and administrator, he made his stage debut in the school play “Hansel and Greta,” as a third-grade student. Having a suitable height for playing basketball, Mark, naturally, became interested in this popular sport in the USA and became the star of the school. As the lead player in the team that became the best among the U.S. basketball schools, Blucas Mark received a scholarship to enter Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, North Carolina). There he majored in business and continued to play on the university’s basketball team as an offensive defender. Playing as part of the Wake Forest basketball team, he led her to victory in four tournaments and received a university prize and scholarship from the Weaver James Corrigan Foundation. Mark decided to continue his sporting career, becoming a member of the NBA, but did not qualify and accepted the offer to join the English basketball club Manchester Giants. As part of the team, Mark played one season, but then decided to use the program to help professional athletes and returned to his homeland to get a law degree and make a career in this area. The case intervened in Blukas's plans, and instead of entrance exams to law school, he went to audition for the cinema.
The first work in the cinema
The debut of Blucas took place in 1995. He got a cameo role in the television movie "Flammable." In 1996, producers Ronald M. Bozeman and Whoopi Goldberg were looking for a basketball player with a children's face for the comedy “Eddie”. When Mark, possessing excellent external data, appeared on the samples, he was immediately approved. Blukas Mark was ideally suited for the role of a substitute for the New York NYX team and made it a feature of the film.
Then there was work as a technical consultant on the NBC-SPORT channel during the filming of the biographical film "Never Give Up: The Story of Jimmy Wee" (1996). Mark continued to work with producers as a consultant, and also appeared in episodic roles of television series. Desiring to achieve more, he attended acting classes and various film celebrity workshops.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Finally, in the fall of 1999, Mark was invited to work on a television series about the adventures of a Buffy girl, who has extraordinary ability to recognize and destroy vampires. Mark had a hard job, because his character Riley Fin appears in the fourth season of the series and in the story becomes not only a brave fighter against the forces of darkness, but also the beloved of the main character. During the previous seasons, fans of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series watched the development of a love story between Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Angel (David Brianaz), and they were very disappointed by such a turn. Angry letters flew to Mark and the creators of the series. Despite the difficulties, the actor coped with the role. Work in the series brought him popularity, Mark became recognizable and got fans. At the end of the actor’s work in the fourth season of the television movie, the producers began to receive letters from fans of the series asking them to return the character of Mark back.
Marc Blucas: movies
Having become a popular actor, Mark in 2001 receives a leading role in the movie with the baseball theme “Summer Games”. Then, in the same year, starred in the melodrama "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back." The year 2002 was marked for the actor by working on the same set with the famous Mel Gibson in the film “We Were Soldiers” and Gwyneth Paltrow in the comedy “Top View Is Better”. In 2004, Blucas Mark gets the lead role in the comedy melodrama First Daughter, where Katie Holmes becomes his partner on the set , and starred in the historical film Fort Alamo. The detective drama Three Keys (2006) and the main character Kevin Parson performed by Mark bring the actor recognition of the European audience. After working in this film, director Gideon Ruff invites Blucas to star in the crime thriller Cursed House (2007).
In addition to working in big films, Mark continues to work in television series. So, in 2011, the actor accepts the offer of Kevin Dowling to participate in the series “Necessary Cruelty”. Marc Blucas plays in it one of the main male roles - coach Matthew Donelly. Over the course of three seasons, fans of the series have been following the development of the relationship between the main character, psychotherapist Dani Santino (Callie Thorne), and football coach Donelly. In his interview, the actor admitted that he really likes to work on this role, because the theme of sports is still close to him, and the events of the series allow you to look at professional sports from a different angle.