# Marc Menchaca

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 for 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.

## Early life

His father is Mexican and his mother is American. 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 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. He is an alumnus of the William Esper Studio.

## Career

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 Breckenridge Film Festival, 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.
In the 2018 Netflix television series Ozark, Menchaca had a recurring role as Russ Langmore, a man struggling to suppress his homosexuality. He has regular recent 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 own stunts in the film, including a fight scene in 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 'The Man' in #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.

## Personal life

On October 6, 2022, Menchaca married British actress Lena Headey in Apulia, Italy.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 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 |
| 2013 | Reservoir | Adam Pierce | |
| 2014 | She's Lost Control | Johnny | |
| 2015 | Reparation | Bob Stevens | |
| 2016 | Ace the Case | Gunner | |
| 2017 | Where Is Kyra? | Vine | |
| 2017 | Weightless | Cody | |
| 2017 | Smartass | Rod | |
| 2019 | Every Time I Die | Jay | |
| 2020 | The Evening Hour | Everett | |
| 2020 | Upstream with Jimmy Dallas | Jimmy Dallas | Short |
| 2020 | Motherhood | Phillip | Short |
| 2021 | #Like | The Man | |
| 2021 | Alone | Sam Dillon | |
| 2021 | No One Gets Out Alive | Red | |
| 2021 | The Retaliators | Jed | |
| 2021 | Treat | Mike | |
| 2021 | Playing God | Vaughn | |
| 2022 | 9 Bullets | Sheriff John Carter | |
| 2022 | Sick | Jason | |
| 2023 | The Creator | Captain McBride | |
| TBA | The Fisherwoman | TBA | Post-production |
| 2025 | Companion | Deputy Hendrix | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 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 |
| 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 | Law & Order: Organized Crime | Brother Bill | Episode: "As Hubris Is to Oedipus" |
| 2022 | Jack Ryan | Captain Andrew Bennett | 2 episodes |
| 2023 | White House Plumbers | Carl Shoffler | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 2023–2024 | Beacon 23 | Keir | 5 episodes |
| 2024 | American Rust | Vic Walker | 7 episodes |
| 2024 | The Big Cigar | Sydney Clark | Miniseries, 5 episodes |
| 2025 | Dexter: Resurrection | (Unknown) | 10 Episodes |

### Video games

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

## Awards and nominations

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