Marc Menchaca

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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 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.

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UNABOMBER
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2026
Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America
TV show Joseph Clanton
2026
Dutton Ranch
TV show Zachariah
2026
Stages
Movie Pat Byrd
2025
The Abandons
TV show Sheriff Hayworth
2025
Dead of Winter
Movie Camo Jacket
2025
Long Pork
Movie Philip
2025
Dexter: Resurrection
TV show Red
2025
Barron's Cove
Movie Chief Alberts
2025
Companion
Movie Deputy Hendrix
2024
The Reunion
Movie Bob Corcoran
2024
The Big Cigar
TV show Agent Sydney Clark
2024
RAPT
Movie Richard
2023
Beacon 23
TV show Keir
2023
The Creator
Movie McBride
2023
White House Plumbers
TV show Carl Shoffler