- Born
- Birth nameMark S. Figueroa
- Nickname
- Fig
- Marco St John graduated from Fordham Univ. in NYC and subsequently started as a stage actor there, doing several off Broadway plays and Broadway, regional theater and playing the role of Hamlet in that play at the San Diego Shakespeare Festival when he was 28 and subsequently nine productions on Broadway, the last of these a David Merrick production playing opposite Julie Harris in 40 Carats. While in this production he also played Dr. Paul Stewart in As the World Turns. He went on to TV Guest star many roles and a CBS series BALL FOUR, and several films as IMDB can attest to. At present he lives on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and works frequently in films and television in Louisiana and Georgia as well as L.A. and NYC, his most recent project is Patty Jenkins' upcoming mini series on TNT, "I AM THE NIGHT".
- IMDb mini biography by: Marco St John
- SpousesLorraine St John(October 15, 2001 - present)Barbara(? - July 15, 1971) (her death, 1 child)
- His first wife Barbara was brutally assaulted and shot in their Greenwich Village apartment while protecting her son from an intruder. St. John was summoned offstage during a performance of Timons Of Athens at Shakespeare In The Park to be informed about what happened. He took his son and moved out of New York to Mississippi where they lived with his family.
- Graduated in 1960 from Fordham University, in The Bronx, New York City. The campus is called Rose Hill, and Fig worked as cartoonist for the student humor magazine, "The Thorn [of Rose Hill]," along with satirist (and current IMDb biography writer) Bill Takacs.
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