Marc Menchaca
Also Known As: 마크 멘차카, 马克·蒙查卡, مارک منچاکا
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Angelo, Texas, USA
Birthday: October 10, 1975
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Gender: Male
TMDb-Id: 212776
IMDb-Id: nm0578766
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Sick
Overview: While quarantining at her family's lake house during the pandemic, Parker and her best friend are threatened by an unexpected visitor.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-11
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The Reunion
Overview: A family comes together at their estate under the pretext of celebrating their grandma's birthday, but they have come to ship her off to a nursing home and vie for the share of an inheritance in her wake.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-17
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The Creator
Overview: Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and mankind itself.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-27
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Screen Door Jesus
Overview: A vision of Jesus sighted on the screen door of Mother Harper's front porch sparks misadventures as the media and crowds gather around the phenomenon and the townsfolk start to take sides. As more people flock to the door, some for guidance, some for healing and some for pure entertainment, the pressure on this sleepy town starts to build. From the wanton Mayor to the scheming town seductress; from the white banker to the desperate black rough neck who seeks his help; from the security guard with all the answers to the hoards gathering with nothing but questions, there's something boiling under this town and only one thing is certain: no one will escape the apocalyptic results unchanged.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-11
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This Is Where We Live
Overview: A struggling family’s dynamics are challenged and a unique friendship is born when a small-town Texas handyman becomes caregiver to their son with cerebral palsy.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-17
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Last Day of Summer
Overview: This unpredictable story follows an agitated fast-food employee, Joe, who's reached his breaking point from being harassed and tormented by his boss...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-24
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She's Lost Control
Overview: Ronah's life unravels when she starts working with a new client, Johnny.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-09
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Barron's Cove
Overview: When his young son is viciously murdered by a classmate, a grieving father with a history of violence kidnaps the child responsible, igniting a frenzied manhunt fueled by a powerful politician -- the father of the kidnapped boy.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
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The Fisherwoman
Overview: A widowed fisherman, while trapped in a Minnesota blizzard, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenager and soon finds she is the young victim’s only hope.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
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The Intervention
Overview: Sometimes one's friends may gang up on you to get you admit you're an alcoholic (after all its for your own good). What if they ganged up on you to get you to admit something else?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-10
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RAPT
Overview: A young woman navigates a surreal audition process where her boundaries are tested in pursuit of a coveted spot in an elite acting program.
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Original Language: en
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Ace the Case: Manhattan Mystery
Overview: While her mother is away on business, a young girl home alone with her older brother witnesses her neighbor's kidnapping. But no one believes her--not her brother, not the cops. So she takes matters into her own hands putting her life at risk to save her neighbor.
Genres: Family Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-26
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Reparation
Overview: REPARATION is a powerful psychological thriller that swirls like a funnel cloud around Bob Stevens -- a small-town farmer with a three-year hole in his memory. When a mysterious stranger, Jerome, shows up claiming to have been his best friend in the Air Force Police, Bob's peaceful existence begins to unravel from the outside in. Bob's entire family is caught in the storm -- but none more than Bob's eight year-old daughter, Charlotte, who discovers that she might hold the key to conjuring Bob's forgotten past. As Charlotte comes to learn, "every time something happens that knocks us out of balance, we try doing something that will knock us back in..." That universal theme of balance is the soul of REPARATION.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-09
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Where Is Kyra?
Overview: Pushed to the brink after losing her job, a woman struggles to survive. As the months pass and her troubles deepen, she embarks on a perilous and mysterious journey that threatens to usurp her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-06
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Alone
Overview: A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-10
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Weightless
Overview: An emotionally troubled man is forced to care for the obese 10-year-old son he has never met. Together they embark on a high-stakes journey to determine their future together, even as the world tries to tear them apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-09
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Every Time I Die
Overview: When Sam is murdered in a remote lake, his consciousness begins to travel through the bodies of his friends in an effort to protect them from his killer. This dark passage leads him on a greater journey - discovering his own true identity.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-21
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#Like
Overview: Woodstock teen, Rosie, mourning the first anniversary of her younger sister's death discovers the mysterious man who sexploited and bullied her sister to commit suicide is back on-line trolling for new victims. After the authorities refuse to get involved she finds a darkness she never knew she had when she takes justice into her own hands.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-09
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The Evening Hour
Overview: Cole Freeman maintains an uneasy equilibrium in his rural Appalachian town, looking after the old and infirm while selling their excess painkillers to local addicts. But when an old friend returns with plans that upend the fragile balance and identity he's so painstakingly crafted, Cole is forced to take action.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-30
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No One Gets Out Alive
Overview: An immigrant in search of the American dream is forced to take a room in a boarding house and soon finds herself in a nightmare from which she can't escape.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-29
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9 Bullets
Overview: A former burlesque dancer turned author discovers a second chance at life and redemption when she risks everything to rescue her young neighbor after he witnesses his parents’ murder. Now on the run from the local crime boss, who happens to be her longtime ex, she makes a desperate attempt to get the boy to safety.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-14
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The Retaliators
Overview: An upstanding pastor uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter's brutal murder.
Genres: Horror Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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Playing God
Overview: A brother and sister con-artist duo find themselves scamming a grieving billionaire by convincing him they can introduce him to God, face-to-face.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-06
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Muscle
Overview: A woman married to a terminally ill man must make the agonizing decision to live for him or live for herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-09
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Companion
Overview: During a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, a group of friends finds themselves entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, they uncover unsettling truths about themselves and the world around them.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-01-22
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