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…