Marcus Lovett’s passion for Freestyle skiing started when, as a teenager, he fell in love with the rebellious nature of the sport. His dad had taken him skiing when he was four years old, at Mt Buffalo’s Dingo Dell, but it wasn’t until the late seventies that Lovett fully dedicated himself to skiing. By then already an avid consumer of ski videos and magazines, in 1981 Lovett went to Breckenridge, Colorado, on a family vacation after completing year 12. While on vacation he found a job and a place to live, and decided to stay in the United States. Washing dishes all night, Lovett could afford to ski during the day, training with professional mogul skiers, learning the ropes of Ski Ballet (or Acroski, as it was later rebranded) from the New Zealand team and later competing in the Rocky Mountains division. 

Lovett came back to Australia in 1983 and finished 4th in the Combined at the Nationals, earning a spot in the Australian team for the Europa Cup circuit. 

Early success soon got Lovett into the World Cup, where he registered 26 starts, mostly in Aerials, over a ten-year period between 1984 and 1994. His best result was a fourth place in the Aerials event at Oberjoch, Germany, in 1988. 

But 1988 was first and foremost the year of the Calgary Winter Games, where Freestyle Skiing was included in the Olympic program for the first time, as a demonstration sport. Lovett participated in the Aerials event, held at the Olympic Park in front of an estimated crowd of 90,000 that erupted at every jump. He placed 10th, becoming the first Australian Freestyle Skiing Olympian in history.

Lovett went on to become a coach, working with Kirstie Marshall and coaching the future Aerial World Champion to her first World Cup victory, a performance that granted Lovett the Australian Ski Federation Coach of the Year Award in 1990. 

Once retired, he became a producer and host of the ‘Snowshow’, an international travel show about snow and skiing which was broadcast on the Nine Network, Sky Europe and RSN-USA. On TV he was also a commentator, covering the 1998 Nagano Olympics and the 2002 Salt Lake City Paralympics for various Australian broadcasters.

Away from snow he used his gymnastics training and acrobatic skills to work as a stunt actor - with numerous credits including the 1999 science fiction movie The Matrix - and compete in cliff diving, reaching the quarter finals in the World Cliff Diving Championships in Acapulco, Mexico, in 2003.