Marc Menchaca (born October 10, 1975) is an American actor, writer, and director. His credits include The Alamo (2004), Generation Kill (2008), Homeland (2011–2012), This Is Where We Live (2013), Ozark (2017–2018, 2022) and The Sinner (2018), Manifest (2019) and The Outsider (2019), Black Mirror: episode "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too" (2019), Alone (2021), No One Gets Out Alive (2021), Jack Ryan (2022), White House Plumbers (2023), Beacon 23 (2023–2024), American Rust (2024), The Big Cigar (2024), (2025), Companion (2025) and The Abandons (2025).
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 Closeted. 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 portraying Jack Hoskins in all 10 episodes of The Outsider (2019). The same year he starred alongside Miley Cyrus playing her father Kevin Goggins in the Black Mirror episode "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too" (2019).
In 2020, he 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 the Sarah Pirozek directed film #Like
In 2021, he starred in the Santiago Menghini-directed Netflix horror movie No One Gets Out Alive with co-star Cristina Rodlo.
In 2025, Menchaca played Ronald "Red" Schmidt and The Dark Passenger in . He was Sheriff Hayworth, working in the same cast as his wife Lena Headey, also Gillian Anderson in the western series The Abandons.
| 2002 | Pageant | Officer Paddy | |
| 2003 | Screen Door Jesus | Little Red | |
| 2004 | No Pain, No Gain | University Cop | |
| The Alamo | Fifer | ||
| 2009 | Last Day of Summer | Shipping Employee | |
| Frame of Mind | Interrogator | ||
| 2011 | A Long Road | Employer 1 | Short |
| Bright | Taylor | Short | |
| 2013 | This Is Where We Live | Noah | Actor, writer and director |
| Reservoir | Adam Pierce | ||
| 2014 | She's Lost Control | Johnny | |
| 2015 | Reparation | Bob Stevens | |
| 2016 | Ace the Case | Gunner | |
| 2017 | Where Is Kyra? | Vine | |
| Weightless | Cody | ||
| Smartass | Rod | ||
| 2019 | Every Time I Die | Jay | |
| 2020 | The Evening Hour | Everett | |
| Upstream with Jimmy Dallas | Jimmy Dallas | Short | |
| Motherhood | Phillip | Short | |
| 2021 | #Like | The Man | |
| Alone | Sam Dillon | ||
| No One Gets Out Alive | Red | ||
| The Retaliators | Jed | ||
| Treat | Mike | ||
| Playing God | Vaughn | ||
| 2022 | 9 Bullets | Sheriff John Carter | |
| Sick | Jason | ||
| 2023 | The Creator | Captain McBride | |
| 2025 | Companion | Deputy Hendrix | |
| Dead of Winter | Camo Jacket |
| 2001 | Arrest & Trial | Junior | Episode: "Texas Prison Break" |
| 2002 | Store Assistant | Television film | |
| 2006 | Guiding Light | Business Guy 1 | Episode #1.14989 |
| 2008 | Generation Kill | Gunnery Sergeant Mike “Gunny” Wynn | 7 episodes |
| 2009 | N/A | Episode: "Family Values" | |
| Leonard | Episode: "Manhattanhenge" | ||
| 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" |
| The Glades | Michael Caldwell | Episode: "Addicted to Love" | |
| Black Jack | Corporal Pierce | Television film | |
| 2012 | Person of Interest | Fox | Episode: "No Good Deed" |
| 2011–2012 | Homeland | Lauder Wakefield | 5 episodes |
| 2013 | Officer Michael Groves | Episode: "Internal Affairs" | |
| 2013–2015 | Inside Amy Schumer | Travis / Drew / Matt Forrester | 3 episodes |
| 2015 | The Blacklist | Pierce | 2 episodes |
| Togetherness | Tex | Episode: "Houston, We Have a Problem" | |
| Sleepy Hollow | Colonel Sutton | Episode: "Tempus Fugit" | |
| Chicago P.D | Owen Kozelek | Episode: "Push the Pain Away" | |
| 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" |
| MacGyver | Booth | Episode: "Wind + Water" | |
| The Sinner | Glen Fisher | 4 episodes | |
| 2019 | WPT Deepstacks Jacksonville | himself | 1 episode |
| Manifest | James Griffin | 3 episodes | |
| Raising Dion | Walter Mills | 2 episodes | |
| 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 | Brother Bill | Episode: "As Hubris Is to Oedipus" | |
| 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 |
| The Big Cigar | Sydney Clark | Miniseries, 5 episodes | |
| 2025 | Ronald "Red" Schmidt / The Dark Passenger | 3 episodes | |
| 2025 | The Abandons | Sheriff Hayworth | 3 episodes |
| 2003 | Freelancer | ||
| 2018 | Red Dead Redemption 2 | Del Lobos |
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