Actor / Director Profile

Daniel Marcus is a chameleonic performer whose acutely observed impersonations have fooled just about everyone he's met. His work reflects his family background: One-part Dallas royalty, another part Latin American socialist, lightly shaken to bongo beats and served on your funny bone.Born in New York, and raised by his Texan mother and Germanic-Argentine father in Mexico and D.C. only to spend time in London, Maine, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his Japanese-Irish wife and daughter.His TV work includes 3 seasons playing 3 different characters on Nickelodeon's "The Naked Brother's Band", HBO's "How to Make it in America", ABC's "Knight's of Prosperity", and Fox's "New Amsterdam." His film works includes the lead role in Second City's "BuzzKill, the award winning "The Good Heart", and "Bride Wars."Daniel's theatrical work includes his solo show "The Store" based on his 10 years at Neiman-Marcus, Beverly Hills. It's a seven characters in 30 minutes. A hilarious tale of fashion, commerce and revolution spices with incomparable wit. The show is now being developed as a comedic television series.He has also appeared in countless TV commercials including Heineken, Jose Cuervo, and Burger King as the German/Dutch fashion designer, Ugoff.When he is not fooling your eyes and ears on camera he spends his time helping to develop a men's clothing line using high quality Italian fabrics hand made in a Brooklyn factory run by a Czech Holocaust survivor.