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Marc Blucas was born Marcus Paul Blucas on 11 January 1972 in Butler, Pennsylvania. He is an American actor, film producer, and basketball player who was educated at Wake Forest University. His work in the industry began in 1995, and he has worked as both a film and television actor. Blucas represented the United States in basketball and speaks English.
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Film & TV
Butler, Pennsylvania, USA
Marcus Paul Blucas is an American actor, known for playing Riley Finn in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Matthew Donnelly in Necessary Roughness and abolitionist John Hawkes in Underground. Prior to his acting career, he was known for playing college basketball with the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. Blucas' first television role was in the television movie Inflammable, made in 1995. From there, he found…
Known for
- My Life with the Walter Boys — George Walter2023
- Hunting Ava Bravo — Buddy King2022
- A Christmas... Present — Eric Larson2022
- Doomsday Mom — Chad Daybell2021
- Swagger — Coach Bobby2021
- Unearth — George Lomack2020
- Good Morning Christmas! — Brian Bright2020
- Holiday for Heroes — Matt Evans2019
- The Fix — River 'Riv' Allgood2019
- Looking Glass — Howard2018
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Key facts
- Born
- Marcus Paul Blucas , ( 1972-01-11 ) January 11, 1972 (age 54) , Girard, Pennsylvania , U.S.
- Education
- Wake Forest University ( BA )
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1995–present
- Spouse
- Ryan Haddon ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2009 )
- Relatives
- Dayle Haddon (mother-in-law)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Marc
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Butler
- Occupation
- film actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Sport
- basketball
- Country for sport
- United States
- Image
- Marc Blucas jane austen book club.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1972-01-11
- Commons category
- Marc Blucas
- birth name
- Marcus Paul Blucas
- start of work period
- 1995-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Marcus Paul Blucas (/ˈbluːkəs/; born January 11, 1972) is an American actor. Prior to his acting career, he played college basketball with the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. He had his first starring role as soldier and love interest Riley Finn on the WB supernatural drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer from 1999 to 2000, and later starred as football team manager Matthew Donnelly on the USA drama series Necessary Roughness from 2011 to 2013.
Blucas starred alongside Katie Holmes in the romantic comedy film First Daughter (2004) and also had lead roles in the thriller films Three (2006) and The Killing Floor (2007). He had supporting roles in the romance films I Capture the Castle (2003), After Sex (2007), and The Jane Austen Book Club (2007); the horror films They (2002), Deadline (2009), and Unearth (2020); the thriller films Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017) and Looking Glass (2018); and the drama films Prey for Rock & Roll (2004) and Touchback (2011).
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