We had some great news in our inbox straight from the source tonight.  Lamarcus Tinker, better known in Dillon as just “Tinker” has landed a role in Glee. He has a recurring role as “Marcus”. Filming starts tomorrow in LA. Congrats!!

Filming begins next week in Los Angeles for the new feature film “The First Time”, which will be directed by Jon Kasdan. Friday Night Lights‘ LaMarcus Tinker will be making his feature film debut in this movie and his co-stars include Life Unexpected’s Brittany Robertson, Dylan O’Brien and Craig Roberts.

According to IMDb the storyline is that this is a romantic comedy that follows a new high school couple through the first weekend of their budding romance.

Congrats Tink!

LaMarcus Tinker had no reason to appear confident. He was bored and sitting in a holding room for extras hoping to land a small role on the TV show Friday Night Lights when he challenged a stranger to a game of pool, unaware the guy was a filmmaker whose most recent project grossed $228 million.After the guy ran the table on Tinker, some extras informed him that his formidable opponent was Peter Berg, the director of feature films Hancock and Friday Night Lights. Berg was also the executive producer responsible for bringing FNL to TV.

Tinker lost the game of 8-ball but won the attention of the shows most important creative force. Within two days, the fourth season was being re-jiggered to accommodate a new character named Dallas Tinker, who would prove to be a crucial calming presence on a ragtag high school football team.That was a year ago. Both Tinkers — Houston native LaMarcus and fictional East Dillon, Texas, character Dallas – return for the final season of Friday Night Lights this week. And Tinker has already landed a recurring role on ABCs Cougar Town.

His break started with a Greyhound ticket.

via LaMarcus Tinkers hail mary pays off with role on Friday Night Lights | Entertainment | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle.

We would like to wish our friend Tink a very happy 20th birthday! Give him a shout-out on his Twitter: @LaMarcusTinker.

We just got confirmation from Mr. LaMarcus Tinker himself that he just scored a recurring role on the ABC hit sitcom Cougar Town!

Tinker will be portraying a character named Kevin who is the college roommate of Courtney Cox’s son (played by Dan Byrd).

Congrats Tink! We’re so glad you’ll be gracing our TVs twice a week this fall!