Joel Marshall plays Congressmen John Raker and Earl Wilson of Indiana, as well Jeannette Rankin's father in the film A Single Woman.

Having grown up in the Seattle area, Joel Marshall has a BA from the University of Washington School of Drama and an MFA from CalArts. He interned at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago while acting in several companies there. He did classical training at Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts, where he played Romeo in their summer season.

Joel performed many plays with the Santa Clarita Repertory Theatre including The Winters Tale, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, Voice of the Prarie and a one-man show about Johnny Appleseed.

In Los Angeles, Joel performed in plays including Boys Life at Theatre West, Romeo and Juliet at Company of Angeles, and the highly-acclaimed play Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk which he also co-wrote with the hilarious theater company The Burglars of Hamm.

He is the producer of the short film Filet of 4 that appeared in the Tribeca Film Festival, wrote and directed the short Coffee Clutch, in which he co-starred with Miguel Sandoval of television's Medium. He is an associate producer on the Spanish film Ese Beso, due to be released later this year. Joel also recently acted in Henry Jaglom’s film Irene in Time, the indie film Tammytown as well as Kamala Lopez-Dawson’s film A Single Woman. All three films are due out by the end of the year.

Joel Marshall is the owner of the computer consulting and website design company Supportus Maximus, Inc.