Marc Menchaca
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Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2001–present |
Marc Menchaca (born October 10, 1975) is an American actor. Menchaca 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. Menchaca has appeared in several television shows including Ozark in 2018, and The Sinner, Manifest, and The Outsider in 2019.
Early life[]
Menchaca first became interested in performing as a student at Central High School.[1] After graduating, Menchaca attended Texas A&M University, earning a bachelor's degree in English. This was also where he acted in his first play. Menchaca 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] Menchaca is an alumn 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, Menchaca played a lead role as Bob Stevens a veteran struggling with memory loss, in the Kyle Ham-directed film Reparation.[5][6] His performance earned him the best actor award at the Breckenridge Film Festival,[1] with the film receiving a further 10 film 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 played a recurring role as Russ Langmore, a man struggling to suppress his homosexuality, the father of Wyatt and Three, uncle of Ruth, brother to Boyd and Cade.[7] Menchaca has regular recent roles on television in The Sinner[8] and Manifest. Menchaca 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 Alone [9] and compounded that win with another award for best actor at the Oxford International Film Festival (OXIFF) in the UK, for his portrayal of 'The Man' in #Like.[10]
Filmography[]
Film[]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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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[3] [11] | Noah | (Actor/writer/director) |
2013 | Reservoir | Adam Pierce | |
2014 | She's Lost Control | Johnny | |
2015 | Reparation[5][6][1] | Bob Stevens | |
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 | |
2019 | #Like[10] | The Man | |
2020 | The Evening Hour | Everett | |
2020 | Upstream with Jimmy Dallas | Jimmy Dallas | Short |
2020 | Motherhood | Phillip | Short |
2021 | Alone [9] | Sam | |
2021 | No One Gets Out Alive | Red | |
2021 | 'The Retaliators | Jed |
Television[]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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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[8] | 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 | Ozark | Russ Langmore | 9 episodes |
2018 | Random Acts of Flyness | Assistant Director | Episode: |
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 | 10 episodes |
Video games[]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2003 | Freelancer | ||
2018 | Red Dead Redemption 2 | Del Lobos |
Awards and nominations[]
Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2013 | South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival Awards | Best narrative Feature | This Is Where We Live | Nominated | [11] |
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 | [10] |
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "San Angelo Native Returns Home for Movie Premiere". San Angelo Live. 2016.
- ^ "William Esper : Notable Alumni". esperstudio.com. 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Marc Menchaca Summer Rewind Filmmaker Interview". heartlandfilm.org. 2013.
- ^ "Marc Menchaca This is where we live". nytimes.com. 2013. Archived from the original on 22 November 2013.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Indie Movie Reparation Debuts in the Bayou City". Hustonia Magazine. 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "'Homeland,' 'Castle' Stars Join Psychological Thriller 'Reparation'". hollywoodreporter.com. 2014.
- ^ "not so happy endings - 2 more casualties to add to the "Bury Your Gays" trope in the grim series 'Ozark'". queerty.com. 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Black Mirror Cast Series 5". Radio Times. 2019.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Who won at the Mammoth Film Festival". filmdaily.co. 9 March 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "OXIFF2020 Award Winners". oxiff.com. 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "SXSW Announces 2013 Lineup". filmmakermagazine.com. 31 January 2013.
External links[]
- 1975 births
- 21st-century American male actors
- American male film actors
- American male television actors
- American male voice actors
- Circle in the Square Theatre School alumni
- Living people
- Male actors from Texas
- People from San Angelo, Texas
- William Esper Studio alumni