That year marked the start of a career in theater, in addition to roles in feature films and television series.

[1] It is a somewhat ironic twist of fate that the authentic theater man Marc Van Eeghem became popular with his television work.

There are few series in the nineties and noughties on the Flemish broadcasters VRT and VTM in which he has not appeared.

He had countless guest roles in series like Witse, Code 37, Zone Stad, Heterdaad or Flikken.

[5] Shortly after Van Eeghem married the mother of his children, he died on 14 December 2017, aged 57, from prostate cancer.