Marc Menchaca
Born: 1975-10-10 in San Angelo, Texas, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
Marc Menchaca (born October 10, 1975) is an American actor, writer, and director. He was co-director, co-writer, and lead actor of the 2013 Heartland Film Festival movie This Is Where We Live and was awarded best actor at the Breckenridge Film Festival in 2016 for his lead role in the film Reparation and his lead role in #LIKE, in 2021 at the Oxford Film Festival. He has appeared in several television shows, including Ozark in 2018 and The Sinner, Manifest, and The Outsider in 2019. Menchaca first became interested in performing as a student at Central High School. After graduating, he attended Texas A&M University, earning a bachelor's degree in English; it was also where he acted in his first play. He participated in a summer acting program at the Circle in the Square Theatre School in Manhattan before pursuing an acting career in his twenties. He is an alumnus of the William Esper Studio. Menchaca was co-director, co-writer and lead actor of the 2013 Heartland Film Festival movie This Is Where We Live. In 2015, he played a lead role as Bob Stevens, a veteran struggling with memory loss, in the Kyle Ham-directed film Reparation. It earned him the best actor award at the BreckenridgeFilm Festival, with the film receiving a further 10 festival awards, including the Austin Film FesFestival'sdience Choice prize and Best Film at the Santa Fe Film Festival. In the 2018 Netflix television series Ozark, Menchaca had a recurring role as Russ Langmore, a man struggling to suppress his homosexuality. He has had regular roles on television in The Sinner and Manifest. He appeared again on TV with Jason Bateman in 2019 in the Stephen King horror miniseries The Outsider, portraying Jack Hoskins for all 10 episodes. In 2020, Menchaca won Best Actor in a Feature at the Mammoth Film Festival Awards for his performance as Sam in the John Hyams thriller Alone alongside co-star Jules Willcox. He performed his stunts in the film, including a fight scene in the mud with Willcox. He received a further award for Best Actor in 2020 at the Oxford International Film Festival (OXIFF) in the UK for his portrayal of 'Th' Man' i' #Like, directed by Sarah Pirozek. In 2021, he starred in the Santiago Menghini-directed Netflix horror movie No One Gets Out Alive with co-star Cristina Rodlo. On October 6, 2022, Menchaca married British actress Lena Headey in Apulia, Italy. He is of Mexican descent on his paternal side. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Marc Menchaca, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2025
- Companion as Deputy Hendrix
- Dexter: Resurrection as Red
- Dead of Winter as Camo Jacket
- Barron's Cove as Chief Alberts
- Long Pork as Philip
2024
- The Big Cigar as Agent Sydney Clark
- The Reunion as Bob Corcoran
2023
- The Creator as McBride
- Beacon 23 as Keir
- White House Plumbers as Carl Shoffler
2022
- 9 Bullets as Sheriff John Carter
- The Retaliators as Jed Sawyer
- Sick as Jason
2021
- Law & Order: Organized Crime as Bill
- Playing God as Vaughn
- No One Gets Out Alive as Red
- The Evening Hour as Everett
- Uninvited: The Spread of Invasive Species ... (Presenter)
2020
- The Outsider as Jack Hoskins
- Alone as Man
- Every Time I Die as Jay
2019
- Raising Dion as Walter Mills
- #Like as The Man
2018
- Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan as Captain Andrew Bennett
- Manifest as James Griffin
- Weightless as Cody
- Where Is Kyra? as Vinny
2017
- Ozark as Russ Langmore
2016
- MacGyver as Booth
- Muscle as Craig
- Ace the Case: Manhattan Mystery as Gunner
- Reparation as Bob
2015
- Togetherness as Tex
2014
- She's Lost Control as Johnny
2013
- Sleepy Hollow as Colonel Sutton
- This Is Where We Live as Noah Warden
2012
- Elementary as Detective Ryan Dunning
2011
- Homeland as Lauder Wakefield
- Black Mirror as Kevin
- Person of Interest as Fox
2010
- Hawaii Five-0 as Jackson Wilcox
- The Glades as Michael Caldwell
2009
- FlashForward as Wheeler
- Last Day of Summer as Shipping Employee
2008
- Generation Kill as Mike Wynn
2005
2003
- Screen Door Jesus as Little Red
2001
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Joe Stegeman
2000
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Hank Rinaldi
- Curb Your Enthusiasm as Klansman Joe
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Michael Groves