Marc Menchaca

Marc Menchaca born October 10 1975 is an American actor writer and director He was codirector cowriter 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 AM University earning a bachelors 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 codirector cowriter 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 Hamdirected 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 FesFestivalsdience 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 costar 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 Menghinidirected Netflix horror movie No One Gets Out Alive with costar 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia