Marc Singer

For the filmmaker of the same name, see Marc Singer (documentarian).
Marc Singer

Marc Singer, July 2007
Born January 29, 1948 (1948-01-29) (age 64)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Occupation Film, television, stage actor
Spouse Haunani Minn

Marc Singer (born January 29, 1948) is a Canadian-born American actor best known for his roles in the Beastmaster film series and as Mike Donovan in the original 1980s TV series V.

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Personal life

Singer was born in Vancouver, British Columbia into a family of performers. His father, Jacques Singer, was a symphony conductor, and his mother, Leslie, a concert pianist. Singer's sister, Lori, is also an actress (Ariel in Footloose). His cousin, Bryan, is a noted film producer/director. Marc was raised in Corpus Christi, Texas. He is married to actress Haunani Minn.

Career

Singer has appeared in several fantasy adventure films and series, such as The Beastmaster and its sequels, in which he played the title role, and as Mike Donovan in the 1983 mini-series V, the 1984 sequel V: The Final Battle, and the TV series V: The Series.

Other roles include the 1982 film If You Could See What I Hear (where he portrayed blind musician Tom Sullivan), Body Chemistry, Something for Joey (as football star John Cappelletti), Watchers II, High Desert Kill, The Fighter, Go Tell the Spartans and Dead Space, as well as General Klaus Von Kraut in A Man Called Sarge.

Singer voiced the character of Man-Bat on Batman: The Animated Series. He has guest-starred on television series, such as Dallas, The Twilight Zone, The Hitchhiker, Murder, She Wrote, The Young and the Restless, The Ray Bradbury Theater and Highlander: The Series.

Singer is active in theater and played Petruchio in the American Conservatory Theatre (A.C.T.) production of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, as well as Christian in Cyrano de Bergerac. Both Taming of the Shrew and Cyrano were filmed.

Singer is currently teaching children inter-disciplinary tactics at the Heifetz International Music Institute, in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. In Seattle, he met his future wife, Hawaiian-born actress Haunani Minn. They live a California casual lifestyle, and Marc enjoys running, sailing, martial arts (he is a black belt in Kung fu), boxing, skiing, and motorcycling in his spare time, as well as playing some Western classical piano every day.

Singer was the first choice for the role of Connor MacLeod in Highlander, but he turned it down because of his commitment on V: The Series.

Singer appeared in the last episode of Season 2 of the new version of V, airing on March 15, 2011, however instead of reprising his role of Mike Donovan he plays a new character called Lars Tremont.

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Television series

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