LaMarcus Tinker is best known for his roles as teenage football star Dallas Tinker on the NBC and Direct TV television drama Friday Night Lights, and as Kevin on the ABC comedy Cougar Town.
14 Facts About LaMarcus Tinker
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LaMarcus Tinker appeared as the recurring character Shane on the third season of the Fox television show Glee.
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LaMarcus Tinker later attended the High School for Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, where he continued his activities in theater.
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LaMarcus Tinker received a full academic scholarship to the University of Texas at Arlington, where he studied English.
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LaMarcus Tinker joined the cast of Friday Night Lights in September 2009 playing Dallas LaMarcus Tinker, a small town football player.
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LaMarcus Tinker initially gone to the shoot to support two of his friends who had landed work as extras on the show, taking the bus with them from Houston to Austin.
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LaMarcus Tinker met the show's executive producer, Peter Berg, who was directing the episode being filmed, and unexpectedly found himself acting in a scene with two of the show's regulars.
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LaMarcus Tinker was a recurring character for that season, and for the final, fifth one.
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LaMarcus Tinker portrays the college roommate of Travis Cobb, the son of series protagonist Jules Cobb.
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LaMarcus Tinker was cast for the third season of the hit Fox musical dramedy Glee as Shane, the long-promised boyfriend for Mercedes Jones.
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LaMarcus Tinker made his feature film debut in the role of Big Corporation for the high school romance The First Time.
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LaMarcus Tinker is set to release Down By the River on March 11,2014.
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Currently, LaMarcus Tinker is set to release several other feature films over the next few years, from his companies and several web-series as well.
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LaMarcus Tinker worked in 2012 as the director of photography on the feature film Saving Grace, which is being produced by Dennis Rowe Productions.