Veteran Canadian-American actor Marc Singer has been appearing on our screens for nearly 50 years. He made his name during the 1980s, playing the lead role of Mike Donovan in the original 1983 series of the sci-fi franchise, V, Dar in the cult Beastmaster film series, and Matt Cantrell in the classic soap opera, Dallas. His more recent roles have included a recurring role in the final season of sci-fi police drama Beauty & the Beast and one in popular drama series Arrow.

Singer was born in Vancouver in 1948 but raised way down south in Texas. He came from a musical family — his father was the noted conductor and virtuoso violinist Jacques Singer — but Marc and his twin sister, Lori, both went into acting (she is best known for playing Ariel in Footloose and Julie in Fame). Singer made his TV debut in 1973, in an early episode of Columbo, and spent the next few years building his resume with appearances in similarly era-evoking shows such as Hawaii Five-O, Planet of the Apes, and Roots. During the 1980s, he gained more prominent roles, most notably as Dar in 1982’s Beastmaster, a sci-fi film that would become a cult hit and spawn two sequels that Singer would also star in: Through the Portal of Time (1991) and The Eye of Braxus (1996).

In 1983, Singer starred in V, another sci-fi project that would provide Singer with work in years to come. In a complete change of style, he also appeared in the ninth season of Dallas (the famous “dream season”) in 1985.