Merrick McCartha

McCartha grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He discovered he had a knack for performance in elementary school but his parents, who were police officers, did not want him to take on acting as a career. He attended Cass Technical High School and pursued an engineering career after college. He later took acting classes and signed with an agency in Los Angeles, California. == Career ==

In 2011, McCartha was runner-up in a Backstage actors pitch contest that received over 100 submissions. In 2017, he was cast in the San Diego International Fringe Festival and portrayed Deacon Avery Silver in Rebel by producer John Singleton for the BET Network. McCartha was cast in the film Anatomy of an Antihero: Redemption in 2018 and as Robert Hicks in All American in 2021. co-starred with Ted Raimi in Alex Kahuam's crime comedy film Failure! which premiered at FrightFest, and appeared in Tony Olmos' microbudget horror satire film ''Hemet, or the Landlady Don't Drink Tea''. and co-starred in the Andersons' debut film If You Should Leave Before Me, which premiered at Raindance Film Festival. ==Filmography==