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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 Award Winning 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. He has appeared in several television shows including Ozark in 2018, and The Sinner, Manifest, and The Outsider in 2019.

Marc Menchaca
Marc Menchaca in 2019
Born	(1975-10-10) October 10, 1975 (age 47) San Angelo, Texas, U.S.[1]
Occupation	Actor, writer, director
Years active	2001–present
Spouse	Lena Headey ​ (m. 2022)​

Early life

Menchaca first became interested in performing as a student at Central High School.[1] 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 attended a summer acting program at the Circle in the Square Theatre School in Manhattan before deciding to pursue an acting career in his twenties.[1] He is an alumnus of the William Esper Studio.[2]

Career

Menchaca was co-director, co-writer and lead actor of the 2013 Heartland Film Festival Award Winning movie This Is Where We Live,[3][4]

In 2015, he played a lead role as Bob Stevens, a veteran struggling with memory loss, in the Kyle Ham-directed film Reparation.[5][6] It earned him the best actor award at the Breckenridge Film Festival,[1] with the film receiving a further 10 festival awards, including the Austin Film Festival ‘s Audience Choice prize and Best Film at the Santa Fe Film Festival.[5]

In the 2018 Netflix television series Ozark, Menchaca had a recurring role as Russ Langmore, a man struggling to suppress his homosexuality.[7] He has regular recent roles on television in The Sinner[8] 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 [9] for his performance as Sam in the John Hyams thriller Alone alongside co-star Jules Willcox.[10] He performed his own stunts in the film, including a fight scene in mud with Willcox.[10] He received a further award for Best Actor in 2020 at the Oxford International Film Festival (OXIFF) in the UK, for his portrayal of 'The Man' in #Like [11] 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.[12]

Personal life

On October 6, 2022, Menchaca married British actress Lena Headey in Puglia, Italy.[13]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2002	Pageant	Officer Paddy
2003	Screen Door Jesus	Little Red
2004	No Pain, No Gain	University Cop
2004	The Alamo	Fifer
2009	Last Day of Summer	Shipping Employee
2009	Frame of Mind	Interrogator
2011	A Long Road	Employer 1	Short
2011	Bright	Taylor	Short
2013	This Is Where We Live	Noah	Actor, writer and director	[3][14]
2013	Reservoir	Adam Pierce
2014	She's Lost Control	Johnny
2015	Reparation	Bob Stevens		[5][6][1]
2016	Ace the Case	Gunner
2017	Where Is Kyra?	Vine
2017	Weightless	Cody
2017	Smartass	Rod
2019	Playing God	Vaughn
2019	Every Time I Die	Jay
2020	The Evening Hour	Everett
2021	#Like	The Man		[11]
2020	Upstream with Jimmy Dallas	Jimmy Dallas	Short
2020	Motherhood	Phillip	Short
2021	Alone	Sam		[9][10]
2021	No One Gets Out Alive	Red
2021	The Retaliators	Jed
2021	Treat	Mike
2022	9 Bullets	Sheriff John Carter

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2001	Arrest & Trial	Junior	Episode: "Texas Prison Break"
2002	Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder	Store Assistant	Television film
2006	Guiding Light	Business Guy 1	Episode #1.14989
2008	Generation Kill	Gunnery Sergeant Mike “Gunny” Wynn	7 episodes
2009	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	N/A	Episode: "Family Values"
2009	CSI: NY	Leonard	Episode: "Manhattanhenge"
2009	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Hank Rinaldi	Episode: "Better Off Dead"
2009–2010	Flashforward	Wheeler	3 episodes
2010	True Blue	N/A	Television film
2011	Treme	James Distel	Episode: "On Your Way Down"
2011	The Glades	Michael Caldwell	Episode: "Addicted to Love"
2011	Black Jack	Corporal Pierce	Television film
2012	Person of Interest	Fox	Episode: "No Good Deed"
2011–2012	Homeland	Lauder Wakefield	5 episodes
2013	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Officer Michael Groves	Episode: "Internal Affairs"
2013–2015	Inside Amy Schumer	Travis / Drew / Matt Forrester	3 episodes	[8]
2015	The Blacklist	Pierce	2 episodes
2015	Togetherness	Tex	Episode: "Houston, We Have a Problem"
2015	Sleepy Hollow	Colonel Sutton	Episode: "Tempus Fugit"
2015	Chicago P.D	Owen Kozelek	Episode: "Push the Pain Away"
2015	Blue Bloods	Marty Brock	Episode: "With Friends Like These"
2016	Elementary	Detective Ryan Dunning	Episode: "A View with a Room"
2017	The Son	Bigfoot Wallace	Episode: "Death Song"
2017–2018, 2022	Ozark	Russ Langmore	11 episodes
2018	Random Acts of Flyness	Assistant Director	Episode: "I tried to tell my therapist about my dreams/MARTIN HAD A DREEEEAAAAM"
2018	MacGyver	Booth	Episode: "Wind + Water"
2018	The Sinner	Glen Fisher	4 episodes
2019	WPT Deepstacks Jacksonville	himself	1 episode
2019	Manifest	James Griffin	3 episodes
2019	Raising Dion	Walter Mills	2 episodes
2019	Black Mirror	Kevin Goggins	Episode: "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too"
2020	The Outsider	Jack Hoskins	Miniseries, 10 episodes
2021	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Klansman Joe	Episode: "The Watermelon"
2022	The White House Plumbers	Carl Shoffler	Miniseries, 2 episodes
2022	Law & Order: Organized Crime	Brother Bill	1 episode
2022	Jack Ryan	Captain Andrew Bennett	2 episodes
TBA	The Big Cigar	Sydney Clark	Upcoming miniseries

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Freelancer
2018	Red Dead Redemption 2	Del Lobos

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival Awards	Best narrative Feature	This Is Where We Live	Nominated	[14]
2016	Breckenridge Film Festival Awards	Best Actor	Reparation	Won	[1]
2020	Mammoth Film Festival Awards	Best Actor in a Feature	Alone	Won	[9]
2020	Oxford International Film Festival (OXIFF) Awards	Best Actor	#Like	Won	[11]

References

External links

• Marc Menchaca at IMDb
• Marc Menchaca – Twitter

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