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Marc Blucas
Born	Marcus Paul Blucas January 11, 1972 (1972-01-11) (age 36) Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Actor

Marcus Paul Blucas (born January 11, 1972) is an American actor, known for playing Riley Finn in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal life 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links

Biography

Early life

Blucas was born in Butler, Pennsylvania, the son of Mary Blucas, an educator who is divorced from Blucas's father, a school superintendent.¹ After moving to Girard, Pennsylvania, he became the star center 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.

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, he finally landed his first major role in 1999, as Agent Riley Finn in the The WB Television Network's 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 his departure from the series, he went on to star in such film as We Were Soldiers (2002) alongside Mel Gibson and Chris Klein and First Daughter (2004) with Katie Holmes. However, it was in 2007 that Blucas began to land leading roles in films such as Thr3e and The Killing Floor.

Personal life

Blucas briefly dated actress Lauren Graham in 2005.² He is currently engaged to journalist Ryan Haddon. ³

Apart from acting, he has been the assistant basketball coach, under Varsity Coach Kevin Flinn, at a private all-girls Catholic High School, Marymount High School,in Los Angeles since 2005.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1996	Eddie	Bench Knicks
1997	Dilemma	SWAT Team
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
	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 Lansome.
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
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Inflammable	Evans	CBS TV-Movie
1998	Arliss	McNamara	Episode: The Legacy
1999	The 60's	Buddy Wells	NBC TV-Movie
	Clueless	Doug Sampson	Episode: Popularity
	Undressed	Billy	Episode: 1.15
1999–2000, 2002	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Riley Finn
2007	Judy's Got a Gun	Richard Palm	Unsold ABC TV-Pilot
	House	John Kelley	Episode: Top Secret
2008	Eleventh Hour	Detective McNeil	Episode: Resurrection

References

External links

• Marc Blucas at the Internet Movie Database
• Marc Blucas at Allmovie
• Marc Blucas El Idolo
• Marc Blucas Fansite

v • d • e Major Cast Members of Buffy and Angel Amy Acker • Amber Benson • Marc Blucas • David Boreanaz • Nicholas Brendon • Charisma Carpenter• Emma Caulfield • Alexis Denisof • Sarah Michelle Gellar • Seth Green • Andy Hallett Alyson Hannigan • Anthony Stewart Head • Vincent Kartheiser • James Marsters • Mercedes McNab • Glenn Quinn • J. August Richards • Michelle Trachtenberg

Persondata
NAME	Blucas, Marc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Blucas, Marcus Paul
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 11, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH	Girard, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH