Marc St. James (Ugly Betty)

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Marc St. James
First appearance	I Am Not Going To Sell Herbalux
Last appearance	TBA
Statistics
Gender	Male
Age	late 20s (est.)
Occupation	Assistant/secretary
Title	Personal Assistant to Wilhelmina Slater at MODE
Portrayed by	Michael Urie
Created by	Silvio Horta

Marcus "Marc" St. James is a fictional character in the American dramedy series Ugly Betty. He is played by Michael Urie.

[edit] Background

Marc St. James is the openly gay personal assistant of Wilhelmina Slater, the creative editor at MODE magazine. He is very loyal to Wilhelmina and so far he will do whatever it will take to help his boss succeed in her goal to become the magazine's editor by conspiring with both his boss and magazine receptionist Amanda to sabotage the two people responsible for costing Wilhelmina the top job, and in particular, ruin the 'beauty' of the magazine's workplace: Daniel Meade and Betty Suarez, respectively. Despite his semi-scheming and his efforts to detour the two, Marc has a record in failing in those efforts and at times finds himself at the mercy of his boss' wrath, where she had threatened to replace him with five other effeminite assistants waiting in the wings.

Although he has made no secret that he is openly gay as evidenced by his flamboyant behavior and his refusal to touch a attractive female, he has not told his family, who thinks he is straight and has a girlfriend who lives in Canada. He suffers from asthma attacks whenever he is in a crisis mode, which is mostly related to his job. At home he has a pet named Schmoopy, but there is no description on what type of species this animal is.

[edit] Connections

Wilhelmina Slater - Creative Editor at MODE; Fiercly loyal to his boss, Wilhelmina will usually hand out orders to him to get the job done, especially when it comes dealing with Daniel and Betty. When Marc accidently stumbles onto Wilhelmina's plans to take over Meade Publications, he turns that around by forcing Wilhelmina into buying his silence with financial security in order to keep her secret from leaking out.

Betty Suarez - Assistant Editor at MODE; He constantly mocks Betty (he has captured her screwups on cellphone and then proclaims "I think I just found my new screensaver!" after downloading it, and even dressed up as her for Halloween in which he almost got a raise from Wilhelmina, who then quickly changed her mind after saying that she can barely stand seeing the "real" one), as long as he doesn't endure Betty's wrath since she has threatened him with a Queens-style beating.

Justin Suarez - Betty's nephew; When Justin came to her workplace Marc seemed to like Justin, even giving him advice on dealing with bullies.

Amanda - Receptionist at MODE; A loyal ally who both have a dislike for Betty by humiliating her. In one episode Marc and Amanda were willing to work with Betty in an attempt to keep their jobs, even at the cost of lying to Wilhelmina, which got worse after he and Amanda make a prank call to the mystery woman while they were in Wilhelmina's office, but he used that to his advantage by telling Amanda that it will cost her after Wilhelmina saw her text message that pinned him as the culprit.

Christina - Seamstress at MODE; Christina has a love-hate rivalry with Marc, with whom she constantly bickers with, mostly because of her work. In the tenth episode she told "Santa Claus" that she wishes that Marc had "..Courage" because she knows how cowardly Marc is when he's around her.

Ugly Betty

v • d • e

The Suarezes

Betty • Ignacio • Hilda • Justin

"MODE" magazine

Daniel Meade • Bradford Meade • Wilhelmina Slater • Christina • Amanda • Marc St. James

Recurring characters

Gina Gambarro • Walter • Henry • Sofia Reyes • Santos • The "Mystery Woman" • Nico Slater • Claire Meade

Minor characters

Steve • Leah Stillman • Ted LeBeau • Mr. Green • Nancy • Zelda • Ruthie • Phillippe Michel • Vincent Bianchi

Deceased characters

Fey Sommers • Ramiro Velasquez • Alex Meade