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Gregory Marcel Biography

Birth Name:Gregory Marcel

Profession Actor

Fast Facts

  • Graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in Acting and studied at the London Academy of Theatre and the Baikal Theatre School in Siberia
  • Discovered a second passion while trying to figure out how to make a living-working as a flying trapeze instructor
  • Made his screen acting debut in the short film "No Simple Sugar" in 2004
  • Worked as a bartender, waiter, office temp, personal assistant, driver and figure model
  • Quote: "(On getting his role in "Mind Games"): "I'm a unicorn․ I shouldn't exist in nature․ I booked this show without an agent and without a manager․ I was completely unrepresented․""
  • Best known for role as Leo Spaulding in "Sun Kissed" and as Bobby Wilkinson in "The Fall․"
  • On stage, he performed a one-man show called "Burning My Dreams to the Ground" directed by Nicholas Gray
  • Once almost rollerbladed into actress Julianne Moore when she wandered into a bike lane carrying shopping bags, but managed to stop in time
  • Happened to sit next to John Cleese at a bar, and introduced himself by telling the comedic actor that he grew up watching "Fawlty Towers" with his mother, at which point, Cleese wrote a letter to his mother, handed it to him and left
  • While working at a new Bank of America handing out promotional materials, he offered Renee Zellweger a package of free mints as an excuse to talk to her when she used an ATM there