11/08/2012

Meet Hot New Actor Marlon Clarke

By Madeline Finch


Canada is not only a country of mountains, lakes and remote wilderness. It has a bustling arts scene and film and television industry. Many of the world's most famous and popular actors, including Jim Carrey, Dan Aykroyd, Mike Myers, Ryan Gosling, Christopher Plummer, William Shatner and the Sutherlands, father Donald and son Kiefer, hail from the land of the maple leaf. The country has also produced some big-screen beefcakes like Keanu Reeves. An up-and-coming industry hottie hoping to follow in these famous footsteps is Masimba Marlon Clarke.

Born in 1974 in Winnipeg in Canada's Manitoba province, Marlon spent the first five years of his life in the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. He then moved back to Winnipeg, where he lived for the next five years. When he was ten years old, his family moved eastward to Toronto in Ontario province.

During his high-school years in Canada's largest city, the young Marlon discovered the joys of acting. He became a Drama major and was on stage in various school productions. To help him hone his craft, he enrolled in extracurricular acting classes too.

Upon completing his high-school career, the aspiring actor went to college. Here he studied for a diploma in journalism, graduating in 1999. However, Toronto's lively entertainment and arts scene is the perfect breeding ground for anybody wanting to make it big on screen and the aspiring star was no exception.

The first break came in 2001, when Mr Clarke was cast in a small role in an independent film. It was a horror movie titled 'Massacre Up North', by writer and director Paul Stoichevski. It tells the tale of a man who was badly maimed in a burning accident and then goes on the rampage to get back at everybody who ever teased him about his looks. The young actor portrayed a police officer.

At around the same time, popular Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip released a new album, their seventh studio recording. One of the singles off the album was called 'My Music at Work'. The video features a drab office setting in which uniformly dressed 'office workers' become inspired by one of their colleagues' music. The up-and-coming young actor showed off his dancing skills in this video as one of the office workers.

Marlon also made a guest appearance in an episode of the award-winning Canadian television series 'This is Wonderland'. Set in Toronto and especially in its Old City Hall, the series was a legal comedy-drama that was aired in Canada to great critical acclaim, with Cara Pifko in the lead role as a committed criminal lawyer. The actor from Winnipeg starred in an episode of the third season of this popular series, playing the role of 'Omar number 2'.

Standing five feet nine inches tall in his socks, the beefy Toronto-based actor helps pay the bills by modelling. He has appeared in many print advertisements, portraying anything from an office worker to a party animal and even a soldier. Some of the clients included sportswear manufacturer Adidas, restaurant and catering company Cara Foods, digital media company Captivate Network, Jackson Hewitt Tax Services, office supply chain Staples, the Canadian Blood Services and the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. If you cannot get enough of the man's sexy looks, you can go to the Marlon Clarke website for more information and e-cards.




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