Born Marcus Paul Blucas on January 11, 1972, the actor grew up in
the small town of Girard, PA. The son of a school superintendent and an
education administrator, he made his stage debut as a cupcake in his third
grade class' production of Hansel and Gretel. At 6'2" tall, he was the star
center on the Girard High School basketball team earning a full scholarship
to Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, where he majored in
business with a minor in speech communication and played shooting guard
and small forward for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. When Blucas was
not picked in the NBA draft, he joined the Manchester Giants and played
pro basketball in England for one season. After starting a company that was
targeted to assist athletes in endorsement and contract negotiations, he intended to go to law school, but tried his hand at acting instead.
Blucas had already appeared opposite Marg Helgenberger and Kris
Kristofferson in the television movie Inflammable, when a friend at Wake Forest informed him that the producers of the Whoopi Goldberg comedy Eddie were looking for a baby-faced basketball player to appear inthe picture. He was a perfect fit, but at the last minute the character was changed to a black player. Not letting all his hard work go to waste, he was cast as a benched player on the New York Knicks. After working as the technical advisor on NBC's sports biopic Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story, Blucas was able to expand his part as an athlete in Pleasantville by coordinating the film's basketball sequences. He then dedicated himself to honing his craft through workshops and acting classes, before resurfacing as Jerry O'Connell's best friend in the NBC miniseries The '60s, and as Carmen Electra's ex-beau in Jeff Abugov's The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human.
After his break-through as Riley Finn on Buffy, Marc began to recieve a number movie roles which include the baseball-themed Summer Catch with Freddie Prinze Jr, Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, John Sayles' Sunshine State, Randall Wallace's We Were Soldiers with Mel Gibson and Chris Klein, A View From the Top, They, I Capture the Castle and more recently First Daughter with Katie Holmes.
