Marc Blucas - wikipedia Marc Blucas Marc Blucas Blucas at The Jane Austen Book Club premiere in 2007 Marcus Paul Blucas ( 1972 - 01 - 11 ) January 11, 1972 ( age 45 ) Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S. Occupation Actor Spouse ( s ) Ryan Haddon ( m. 2009 ) 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. Prior to his acting career, he was known for playing college basketball with the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 4.1 Film 5 References 6 External links Early life Blucas was born in Butler, Pennsylvania. His mother, Mary Catherine ( née 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 films 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 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 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 Knight & Day Rodney 2011 Red State ATF Sniper 2012 Touchback Hall 2015 Sleeping with Other People Chris 2016 The Red Maple Leaf Derek Sampson 2017 Brawl in Cell Block 99 Gil 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 '' 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 2016 Operation Christmas ScottSGT Hallmark Movie 2016 The Irresistible Blueberry Farm Roy Cumberfield Hallmark Movies & Mysteries References Jump up ^ `` A Beau for Buffy : People.com ''. People.com. December 11, 2000. Retrieved 2008 - 10 - 05. Jump up ^ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Google News Archive Search Jump up ^ `` https://newspaperarchive.com/indiana-evening-gazette/1970-01-27/page-10 ; https://newspaperarchive.com/indiana-gazette/1988-04-25/page-12 ''. Retrieved 27 October 2014. External link in title = ( help ) Jump up ^ `` Famous Sigma Phi Epsilon 's Famous Fraternity & Sorority Greeks ''. Greek 101. Retrieved 2010 - 10 - 20. Jump up ^ `` Marc Blucas Biography - Yahoo ! Movies ''. Movies.yahoo.com. 1972 - 01 - 11. Retrieved 2010 - 10 - 20. Jump up ^ `` INTERVIEW : Actor Marc Blucas ''. Dvdsnapshot.com. Retrieved 2010 - 10 - 20. Jump up ^ Ausiello, Michael ( February 16, 2010 ). `` Pilot Intel : Marc Blucas recruited for ' True Blue ' duty ''. Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on February 18, 2010. Retrieved February 16, 2010. Jump up ^ `` Marc Blucas Walks Down the Aisle ''. Whedonverse.net. Retrieved 2012 - 05 - 12. External links Marc Blucas on IMDb Marc Blucas at AllMovie Satellite Award for Best Cast -- Television Series 2000 The West Wing Alan Alda Stockard Channing Kristin Chenoweth Dulé Hill Allison Janney Moira Kelly Rob Lowe Joshua Malina Mary McCormack Janel Moloney Richard Schiff Martin Sheen Jimmy Smits John Spencer Bradley Whitford 2001 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Amber Benson Marc Blucas David Boreanaz Nicholas Brendon Charisma Carpenter Emma Caulfield Sarah Michelle Gellar Seth Green Alyson Hannigan Anthony Stewart Head James Marsters Michelle Trachtenberg 2005 Rescue Me Denis Leary John Scurti Daniel Sunjata Mike Lombardi Steven Pasquale Andrea Roth Callie Thorne Adam Ferrara Larenz Tate James McCaffrey Dean Winters 2006 Grey 's Anatomy Justin Chambers Eric Dane Patrick Dempsey Katherine Heigl T.R. Knight Sandra Oh James Pickens Jr. Ellen Pompeo Sara Ramirez Kate Walsh Isaiah Washington Chandra Wilson 2007 Mad Men Bryan Batt Anne Dudek Michael Gladis Jon Hamm Christina Hendricks January Jones Vincent Kartheiser Robert Morse Elisabeth Moss Kiernan Shipka Maggie Siff John Slattery Rich Sommer Aaron Staton 2009 True Blood Chris Bauer Mehcad Brooks Anna Camp Nelsan Ellis Michelle Forbes Mariana Klaveno Ryan Kwanten Todd Lowe Michael McMillian Stephen Moyer Anna Paquin Jim Parrack Carrie Preston William Sanderson Alexander Skarsgård Sam Trammell Rutina Wesley Deborah Ann Woll 2012 The Walking Dead Andrew Lincoln Sarah Wayne Callies Laurie Holden Norman Reedus Steven Yeun Lauren Cohan Chandler Riggs Melissa McBride Scott Wilson Danai Gurira Michael Rooker David Morrissey 2013 Orange Is the New Black Taylor Schilling Laura Prepon Michael J. Harney Michelle Hurst Kate Mulgrew Jason Biggs 2014 The Knick Clive Owen André Holland Jeremy Bobb Juliet Rylance Eve Hewson Michael Angarano Chris Sullivan Cara Seymour Eric Johnson David Fierro Maya Kazan Leon Addison Brown Grainger Hines Matt Frewer 2015 American Crime Felicity Huffman Timothy Hutton W. Earl Brown Richard Cabral Regina King Caitlin Gerard Benito Martinez Penelope Ann Miller Elvis Nolasco Johnny Ortiz 2016 Outlander Caitriona Balfe Sam Heughan Tobias Menzies Lotte Verbeek Laura Donnelly Steven Cree Duncan Lacroix Grant O'Rourke Gary Lewis Graham McTavish Stephen Walters Simon Callow Nell Hudson Dominique Pinon Stanley Weber Richard Rankin Sophie Skelton Andrew Gower Rosie Day Clive Russell Frances de la Tour VIAF : 85869102 LCCN : no2002095587 ISNI : 0000 0001 2142 2841 GND : 140600558 SUDOC : 148622879 BNF : cb15045314d ( data ) IATH : w6dv5sz4 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc_Blucas&oldid=803325756 '' Categories : 1972 births Living people Male actors from Pittsburgh American male film actors American male television actors Basketball players from Pennsylvania Actors from Erie, Pennsylvania Wake Forest Demon Deacons men 's basketball players 20th - century American male actors 21st - century American male actors Hidden categories : CS1 errors : external links Pages using infobox person with unknown parameters Articles with hCards Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC - ID identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Asturianu Čeština Deutsch Español Euskara فارسی Français 한국어 Italiano Latina Malagasy Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk Polski Português Русский Suomi Svenska Türkçe Українська Tiếng Việt 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 1 October 2017, at 20 : 35. 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Question: who plays riley on buffy the vampire slayer
Answer: Marcus Paul "Marc" Blucas