My Marc Blucas Page

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""                                                        ~ Marc Blucas Birth Name: Marcus Paul Blucas Born: January 11, 1972 Birth Place: Girard, Pennsylvania Height: 6'2" Marital Status: Dating Mary Parent Siblings:

tid bits:
� Marc's first acting experience was a production of "Hansel and Gretal" by his third-grade class. He played a cupcake.
� Marc loves food � virtually everything but raw onions
� if he could be a superhero, he'd be Superman

Biography:
Marc Blucas, was born and raised in the small town of Girard, Pennsylvania. His life-long dream was to be a basketball player � he played all through high school, and played at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, though he didn't gain much attention there until his junior year. He ended up winning the Murray Greason Award, which honors the individual who's sacrificed the most to the team, and the Weaver-James-Corrigan scholarship, both in 1994. His big dream to become a professional basketball player in the NBA didn�t come true and so Marc decided to go for two years to Europe playing as a Manchester Giant in Great Britian. He returned to the U.S., and founded his own company named " Sports Prism International" in 1996 ,to help and support athletes in endorsement and contract negotiation. He intended to enter Law School, but the night before his LSAT (Law School Admission Test) he watched �A Few Good Men� and realized that he didn�t want to become a laywer, he wanted to be an actor. He started auditioning, and got a few bit parts in movies such as Eddie in which he played a basketball player and Pleasantville, turned into an important opportunity for Blucas, whose basketball knowledge was a useful commodity for the filmmakers. He ended up with a larger acting role, and also assisted the production by choreographing the film's basketball scenes.

Blucas returned to television with a supporting role in the NBC�s miniseries "The 60s" and a guest part on the UPN comedy "Clueless". Eventually, he landed a Buffy audition, but never had thought that he would get the role because he had to play a scene which was full of intimicy. One day before he suffered a major back injury which made it impossible to play this scene good. He was totally shocked when Joss called him back for a second chance and he landed the job � and then became a regular within half a season. Since that time we know him as the smart vampire slayer, Buffy�s new boyfriend, Riley Finn.

Blucas soon found that not all of the diehard fans were ready for him when he stumbled upon the inevitable anti-Riley Web sites. The actor took the barbs in stride, and his character soon developed his own loyal fan base. In 2000, Blucas banked on his popularity translating to the big screen when he co-starred with fellow teenage heartthrob Freddie Prinze Jr. and The WB cohort Jessica Biel in Mike Tollin's sports-themed romance "Summer Catch" (2001). Then in 2002, he co-starred in the Robert Harmon feature thriller, "They".

Filmography:

   � First Daughter (filming).....James Lansome (2004)
   � The Alamo (post-production).....James Bonham (2003)
   � View from the Top.....Tommy Boulay (2003)
   � Prey for Rock & Roll.....Animal (2003)
   � I Capture the Castle..... (2003)
   � They.....Paul Loomis (2002)
   � Sunshine State.....Scotty Duval (2002)
   � We Were Soldiers.....2nd Lt. Henry Herrick (2002)
   � Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.....The Guy (2001)
   � Summer Catch.....Miles Dalrymple (2001)
   � "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" TV Series..... Riley Finn (1999-2000)
   � The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human.....The Female's Ex-Boyfriend (1999)
   � "Undressed" TV Series.....Billy (Season 1: 1999)
   � The '60s (TV).....Buddy Wells (1999)
   � Pleasantville.....Basketball Hero (1998)
   � Dilemma.....SWAT team member (1997)
   � Eddie.....Bench Knicks (1996)
   � Inflammable (TV).....Evans (1995)