Marc Blucas Biography

Marcus Paul "Marc" Blucas (born January 11, 1972) is an American actor, known for playing Riley Finn in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Matthew Donnelly in Necessary Roughness and recently, abolitionist John Hawkes in Underground.

Early life

Blucas was born in Butler, Pennsylvania. His mother, Mary Catherine (ne Gordon), is an educator, and his father, Walter Joseph Blucas, is a school superintendent. They are divorced. After moving to Girard, Pennsylvania (a suburb of Erie), Blucas became the star player on the Girard High School basketball team. He also played basketball at Wake Forest University, graduating in 1994 after one season playing on the same court as Tim Duncan. He was also a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

After Blucas failed to make it into the NBA, he moved to England, where he played professional basketball for a year with British Basketball League's Manchester Giants. He later decided to become a lawyer, but changed his mind and went into acting instead.

Career

Blucas's first television role was in the television movie Inflammable, made in 1995. From there, he found roles in both television and film. He starred as the Basketball Hero in Gary Ross's Pleasantville (1998). However, Blucas landed his first major role in 1999 as Agent Riley Finn in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Initially, Blucas was certain that he had blown his audition and had left apologizing for having wasted creator Joss Whedon's time. Whedon asked him to audition again, and he received the part two weeks later. He played Buffy's love interest until 2000.

After Blucas' departure from the series, he went on to act in such film as Summer Catch (2001), We Were Soldiers (2002), alongside Mel Gibson and Chris Klein, and First Daughter (2004), with Katie Holmes. His character in Summer Catch was based on real life Cape League baseball player Michael Macone.

In 2007, Blucas began to land leading roles in films such as Thr3e and The Killing Floor.

In February 2010, Blucas joined the cast of the ABC television drama pilot True Blue.

Blucas was part of the regular cast of the USA Network show Necessary Roughness for the first two seasons, playing Matthew Donnelly. The series premiered on June 29, 2011.

Personal life

On July 25, 2009, Blucas married journalist Ryan Haddon, daughter of Dayle Haddon and is stepfather to her children from her first marriage to actor Christian Slater.

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1996	Eddie	Bench Knicks
1998	Pleasantville	Basketball Hero
1999	The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human	The Female's Ex-Boyfriend
	House on Haunted Hill	Period Film Actor	Scenes Deleted
2001	Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back	The Guy	Fred Jones look-alike
	Summer Catch	Miles Dalrymple
2002	We Were Soldiers	2nd Lt. Henry Herrick
	Sunshine State	Scotty Duval
	They	Paul
2003	I Capture the Castle	Neil Cotton
	Prey for Rock & Roll	Animal
	View from the Top	Tommy Boulay
	One Flight Stand	Ben	Short film
2004	The Alamo	James Bonham
	First Daughter	James Lamson
2006	Thr3e	Kevin Parson
2007	After Sex	Christopher
	The Killing Floor	David Lamont
	The Jane Austen Book Club	Dean Drummond
2008	Meet Dave	Mark Rhodes
	Animals	Jarrett
2009	Deadline	David
	Stay Cool	Brad Nelson
	Stuntmen	Eligh Supreme
	Mother and Child	Steven
2010	Knight & Day	Rodney
2011	Red State	ATF Sniper
2012	Touchback	Hall
2015	Sleeping with Other People	Chris

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Inflammable	Evans	TV movie
1998	Arliss	McNamara	Episode: The Legacy
1999	The '60s	Buddy Wells	TV movie
	Clueless	Doug Sampson	Episode: "Popularity"
	Undressed	Bill	Episode: 1.15
1999-2000, 2002	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Riley Finn	Main Role; 31 episodes
2007	Judy's Got a Gun	Richard Palm	TV pilot
	House	John Kelley	Episode: "Top Secret"
2008	Eleventh Hour	Detective McNeil	Episode: "Resurrection"
2009	Lie to Me	Jack Rader	Episode: Control Factor
	Castle	Jeremy Preswick	Episode: "The Fifth Bullet"
2010	True Blue	JD Conlin	TV pilot
	Law & Order: Los Angeles	Chip Jarrow	Episode: "Playa Vista"
2011	Revenge	David Clarke	Episode: "Un-aired Pilot"
	Body of Proof	Dr. Mark Chandler	Episode: "Dead Man Walking"
2011-2013	Necessary Roughness	Matthew Donnally	Main role; 29 episodes
2013	Blue Bloods	Russell Burke	Episode: "The City That Never Sleeps"
2014	Killer Women	Dan Winston	Series Regular
	Stalker	Mark Richards	Episode: "Skin"
2016	Underground	John Hawkes