#Fact1Marcus and his wife Bree have 3 daughters, Ophelia Rosalee, Floralina Delilah and Magnolia Pearl..2Marcus wrote the Afterword for the 2011 reissue of A. Bartlett Giamatti's book Take Time For Paradise, from Bloomsbury Press.3Marcus majored in African Ethnomusicology at Bowdoin College, writing his thesis on Ashanti Tribal Funeral Music.4Marcus also writes feature essays on baseball for MLB Insider's Club Magazine.5Marcus originated the role of Tom Jackson, in the debut Broadway production of Horton Foote's Pulitzer Prize winning and Tony nominated play, The Young Man From Atlanta.6Marcus was a member of the Bowdoin College Varsity Swimming Team. He specialized in the 50 and 100 yard Freestyle.7Marcus was a bass student of Jim Stinnett, and The Stinnett School Of Music, an affiliate of The Berklee College of Music, in Boston.8Brother-in-law of Elizabeth Giamatti.9The original bass player for the Southern California jam band the Rebel Soul Band.10Has performed many of Shakespeare's greatest roles from Henry in "Henry V", to the tittle role in "Macbeth", to Bottom in a Midsummer Night's Dream, and Silvius in "As You Like It'".11Played the role of Marlowe, in Goldsmith's "She Stoops To Conquer" at The Seattle Rep, The Guthrie and Long Wharf.12Marcus received his Actor's Equity card at The Williamstown Theater Festival in 1987.13His grandmother, Kathryn Brown Smith, won the silver medal at the Nationals, in 1927 and 1929, in the 10 meter platform high dive event.14His grandfather, Abram E. Smith, was the head football coach at Plainfield High School, in New Jersey, from 1943 to 1968. One of his players was Olympic Decathalon Champion Milton Campbell.15Commodore Brown also assisted Houdini, placing chains and locks on his trunk, and then helping to lower him into one of Manhattan's rivers. He was there as well to rescue Houdini, if he needed it.16Marcus' great grandfather, Commodore Alfred Brown, was the first and only man to swim the Panama Canal. This was accomplished in 1913, before the canal was opened to commercial traffic.17Threw out the ceremonial first pitch, before the start of Game 1 of the 1989 World Series, in Oakland, CA.18His bass recording work includes sessions with such distinguished musicians as Doug Pettibone, Don Heffington, Skip Edwards, Otis Hayes.19At Bowdoin College Marcus received The Alice Merrill Mitchell Award for Acting, as a graduating senior.20Received the Carol Dye Award for Excellence in Acting upon his graduation from The Yale School Of Drama.21A long time student of the Japanese martial art Ninpo (Ninjutsu).22He was the Captain of his high school varsity swimming team, as a senior, at Hopkins, in New Haven, Connecticut.23A huge Boston Red Sox fan, and Major League Baseball fan.24He has played in The Legends and Celebrity Softball Game as part of The Major League All Star Game, 3 times in Pittsburgh (2006), San Francisco (2007) and Anaheim (2010).25Plays the electric bass guitar professionally.26Is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.27Son of Bart Giamatti, late president of Yale University, and the major league baseball commissioner who banished Pete Rose from baseball.28He is the older brother of Paul Giamatti.