Marc Menchaca

Menchaca was a student at Central High School, where his first taste of appearing on a stage was as a volunteer to a hypnotist.[1] After graduating, Menchaca attended Texas A&M University, obtaining a bachelor's degree in English, also where he acted in his first play. Menchaca attended a summer acting program at the Circle in the Square Theatre School in Broadway (Manhattan) before deciding to pursue an acting career in his twenties.[1]

Menchaca was co-director, co-writer and lead actor of the 2013 Heartland Film Festival Award Winning movie This Is Where We Live,[2][3] In 2016, Menchaca played a lead role as Bob Stevens a veteran struggling with memory loss, in the Kyle Ham-directed film Reparation. 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.[4]

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.[5] Menchaca has regular recent roles on television in The Sinner[6] 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.

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