Croton Son Makes Hollywood Thriller

Jordan Marder, who grew up, to be specific, in the red farm house at the Croton Dam, started filling acting roles on screen and on stage in the mid 1980s and will soon star in a blockbuster film he co-produced.

Marder, now 40, participated in his youth in the children’s community theatre group in Ossining. He went to the Hackley School in Tarryown. His resume on Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is lengthy and dating back to the mid-1980s, with roles in movies like LA Confidential, American History X, to being a creature on the television series X-Files and Dimitri in 24. It all started at the tender age of seven. 

According to his bio on his new production company Charlemont Pictures' website, he went from Hackley to England after getting accepted into the British Academy of Dramatic Art in Oxford. From there, he attended The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where "he was once again the youngest person ever accepted into the program, and graduated with a double diploma." At 19, Marder moved to Los Angeles, and his fate was sealed with a role in his first feature film, Clive Barker’s Lord of Illusions.

He’s joined with a fellow Hackley alumni, Elisa Pugliese, along with Carl Lucas, to produce his first film.

Then There Was, in pre-production and due out in 2014, is being called an ensemble thriller which “which tells the story of four college students, an expectant couple, and a lone survival expert who are confronted by a global blackout that forces them to endure the worst of human nature as society falls apart around them,” according to the Charlemont Pictures' blurb.

Marder plays Martin. Other stars include Mark Valley and Grant Harvey. Louis Mandylor directs. Stay tuned for more information on the movie as it nears it's opening date (yet to be determined).