Marshall-Green appeared in both
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2003 and
Law & Order in 2004, before landing recurring roles on
Fox's
The O.C. and
24. He received a
Drama Desk Award for his performance in
Neil LaBute's play
The Distance from Here in 2004. In 2005, he performed in three separate productions: in June he played an anthropomorphic shark in Adam Bock's
Swimming in the Shallows; in August he appeared as Bo Decker in a production of
William Inge's classic
Bus Stop; and in December he was Beethoven in the
Peanuts spoof
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead (for which he received a
Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor nomination). He played the villainous
Edmund in the
Public Theater production of
King Lear starring
Kevin Kline in the title role and directed by
James Lapine. For his performance in
King Lear and
Pig Farm, he was nominated for a
Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance. In 2005, Marshall-Green appeared in the film
Alchemy. That same year he also appeared in the Miramax film
The Great Raid. Marshall-Green portrayed Tyler Fog in the 2007
ABC series
Traveler. He appeared as Paco in the 2007 film
Across the Universe. He featured as Dean Bendis, an undercover police officer, in a
black ops group of the
LAPD headed by
Dylan McDermott in the TNT series
Dark Blue. He played a young rookie cop the 2010 criminal drama ''
Brooklyn's Finest directed by Antoine Fuqua and had a lead role in the horror film Devil''. He appeared in the 2012
Ridley Scott film
Prometheus as Holloway, a crew member aboard Prometheus. He also portrayed Will in
Karyn Kusama's 2015 horror-thriller
The Invitation. In 2018, Marshall-Green starred as the lead in
Leigh Whannell and
Blumhouse's science fiction
cyberpunk film
Upgrade. Marshall-Green made his directorial debut with the drama film
Adopt a Highway, which was released in March 2019. The film starred
Ethan Hawke and
Betty Gabriel, and was produced by
Jason Blum through Blumhouse Productions. The actor appeared in an episode of
When They See Us, and starred in the video game
Telling Lies, which was released in August 2019. ==Personal life==