Marcus was born and raised in South East London. At an early age he showed signs of being interested in the performing arts. As a young boy he was borderline obsessed with Michael Jackson and would wear his living room carpet thin practicing the artist's signature moves. At 7 he attended the well-regarded independent boy's school Dulwich College (founded by the actor Edward Alleyn, a successful Elizabethan actor as well as a contemporary and friend of William Shakespeare)and stayed until he grad
