Website van Marck Oostra www.marckoostra.nl

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As a four-year-old boy, Marck Oostra made an impression on the press as the young Orestes in 'Iphigeneia in Aulis'. Three years later he wrote his first screenplay. Playing and writing have gone hand in hand at Marck ever since.
As an actor, Marck gathered his education in Utrecht (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten), Maastricht (Toneelacademie), London (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts), Amsterdam (including Joe Weston and Helmert Woudenberg) and Hollywood (American Academy of Dramatic Arts). He has a rare flair for languages and a hobby for accents: he plays in other languages and dialects with equal ease and conviction as in generally civilized Dutch.

In February 2010, Raymond van Rijn's long-awaited film epic 'In the fire of the storm' was released, in which Marck plays the driving role of the Dutch SD officer Gerard Wilder. On 29 September 2011, Marck was named best actor in a supporting role by the 48 Hour Film Project at the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht for his role as Ingmar Talis in 'Beet!'.
In the Dick Maas thriller 'Quiz', which appeared in 2012, Marck is the manager whose chic restaurant becomes the setting for a macabre game between the characters of Barry Atsma and Pierre Bokma.
As far as the general public knows Marck, it is mainly from supporting roles in TV series such as 'Juliana 2', 'De coassistent', 'Moordvrouw' and various comedies and soaps - not to mention: his many, mostly comedic leading roles in commercials . For his role as Freek-with-the-cast-legs of TempoTeam, Marck appeared in 'The world continues to turn', and the Heinz commercial 'The Voice' brought him to the screen in countless languages and countries. In Dutch and foreign film and theater productions, Marck has also literally been allowed to play God and the devil, and many things in between.

Marck wrote the screenplays for a number of plays and a few short films. He has a number of full-fledged feature film projects in the pipeline, in which Ruud van Megen, among others, coached him. He is proud to have Robin Pera and Raymond van Rijn as co-screenwriters.

Film is Marck's great love. He loves the authenticity that the eye of the camera demands, and directors who put their heart and soul into it. Directors, in turn, love Marck's dedication to the collective performance and his sense of 'what works', but above all of his intense, layered and balanced playing.
Marck finds the comparisons with Rowan Atkinson (by Paul Ruven, among others) in comic and Kevin Spacey (by Raymond van Rijn, among others) in dramatic roles caressing – in the latter case: even after #MeToo. In the meantime, he prefers to imitate Marlon Brando; whom he bears no resemblance to.