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Trained in keeping secrets, former intelligence analyst Allen Marsh woke up one morning and realized that his covert ambition to be in the movies would probably never happen unless he 'declassified' it.
Thus in 2004 he came in from the cold and officially declared himself an actor. Since then he has played young C.S. Lewis in an EWTN documentary about JRR Tolkien, the President of the United States in The Horde: Desolation, and the title role in the film adaptation of Walter Wangerin's National Book Award-winning Ragman.
Born in North Carolina and raised all over the Midwest, Allen acted in high school plays and was elected Senior year Drama Club president -- an administration that was notable for doing "absolutely nothing."
As a young man he was miscast in a variety of unrelated jobs including construction worker, church secretary, bank security guard, flight attendant, and piano teacher.
It was while working at a law firm in Minneapolis that he chanced upon a magazine article about a woman who did voice-overs for a living. Intrigued, he took a voice-over class and met with an agent, who encouraged him to pursue on-camera work as well.
And pursue it he did. “I’m still pursuing it,” he says. “Originally I just wanted to be the guy who reads audio books. But then I realized that they’re all established actors. So I figured I’d have to become an established actor first.” Now a veteran of over 150 TV, film, stage, and commercial projects, he has made considerable strides toward reaching that goal.
He is the face behind several corporate marketing campaigns, including American Fleet and Holloway America, and he played Otis Spunkmeyer's fictional motivational speaker Roi Buzzby.
He is known to a younger generation of viewers as the good-hearted but clueless investigator Mister Trench in the Gospel Publishing House series Faith Case: Investigating the Truth.
He can currently be seen on two new series -- as good-guy attorney Abraham Foxe in the historical drama Courage, New Hampshire, and as bad-guy fallen angel Lucian in the supernatural goth-noir web series They Live Among Us.
Most recently he played the leading man opposite Ingrid Sonray in Russian director Alexandr Orlov's New York Film Academy short How To Get Arrested.
For years he worked out of Springfield, Missouri, where he studied with former Talent Managers Association President-turned acting coach Scott-Arthur Allen at the Creative Actors Workshop. He now lives in Los Angeles, where he studies with Deryn Warren, author of the book How to Make Your Audience Fall in Love With You: Expert Advice on Acting Technique, Script Analysis, and Taking Risks. He enjoys running, driving his daughters to school, staring at his computer, and wishing he had more interesting hobbies to talk about.
Thus in 2004 he came in from the cold and officially declared himself an actor. Since then he has played young C.S. Lewis in an EWTN documentary about JRR Tolkien, the President of the United States in The Horde: Desolation, and the title role in the film adaptation of Walter Wangerin's National Book Award-winning Ragman.
Born in North Carolina and raised all over the Midwest, Allen acted in high school plays and was elected Senior year Drama Club president -- an administration that was notable for doing "absolutely nothing."
As a young man he was miscast in a variety of unrelated jobs including construction worker, church secretary, bank security guard, flight attendant, and piano teacher.
It was while working at a law firm in Minneapolis that he chanced upon a magazine article about a woman who did voice-overs for a living. Intrigued, he took a voice-over class and met with an agent, who encouraged him to pursue on-camera work as well.
And pursue it he did. “I’m still pursuing it,” he says. “Originally I just wanted to be the guy who reads audio books. But then I realized that they’re all established actors. So I figured I’d have to become an established actor first.” Now a veteran of over 150 TV, film, stage, and commercial projects, he has made considerable strides toward reaching that goal.
He is the face behind several corporate marketing campaigns, including American Fleet and Holloway America, and he played Otis Spunkmeyer's fictional motivational speaker Roi Buzzby.
He is known to a younger generation of viewers as the good-hearted but clueless investigator Mister Trench in the Gospel Publishing House series Faith Case: Investigating the Truth.
He can currently be seen on two new series -- as good-guy attorney Abraham Foxe in the historical drama Courage, New Hampshire, and as bad-guy fallen angel Lucian in the supernatural goth-noir web series They Live Among Us.
Most recently he played the leading man opposite Ingrid Sonray in Russian director Alexandr Orlov's New York Film Academy short How To Get Arrested.
For years he worked out of Springfield, Missouri, where he studied with former Talent Managers Association President-turned acting coach Scott-Arthur Allen at the Creative Actors Workshop. He now lives in Los Angeles, where he studies with Deryn Warren, author of the book How to Make Your Audience Fall in Love With You: Expert Advice on Acting Technique, Script Analysis, and Taking Risks. He enjoys running, driving his daughters to school, staring at his computer, and wishing he had more interesting hobbies to talk about.
