Martin Roach

Acting

Born July 15, 1962, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Martin Roach (born 15 July 1962, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is an African-Canadian actor and voice actor. He is best known as Admiral Michael Souther in The Expanse (2015–2018) and Picard in Reacher (2022). In film, he has appeared in Spotlight (2015), The Shape of Water (2017), and Shazam! (2019). In voice acting, he is known as Dr. Claw in the Inspector Gadget reboot (2015–2018) and Pastor Jerome Jeffries in Far Cry 5 (2018).

Filmography

• Jumpin' Bugs — Grandpa Bug (voice)
• 2026Letters This Christmas — Principal Watson
• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy — Drekol
• The Westies — Leon
• The Institute — Chief Ashworth
• The Last Frontier — Steven Cole
• 2024Believer — Detective Brener
• 2024Humane — Tony
• 2024Hunting Housewives — Andre Bouvier
• Tales from the Void — Anton
• 2024Tales from the Void: Into the Unknown — Anton
• Tracker — Clay Porter
• 2024You Gotta Believe — Sam Knight
• Essex County — Officer Danny Laraque
• 2023Most Dangerous Game: New York — Micky Dupree
• Red Ketchup — Philip G. Sullivan (voice)
• Rubble & Crew — Grandpa Gravel (voice)
• The Horror of Dolores Roach — Victor
• 2023The Jane Mysteries: Inheritance Lost — Kenny Martin
• 2022All My Puny Sorrows — Psychiatrist Johns
• Reacher — Picard
• 2022The Man from Toronto — Marty
• Transformers: BotBots — (voice)
• Big Blue — Inspector Hammer (voice)
• Go, Dog. Go! — Paw (voice)
• 2021Heritage Minutes: Oscar Peterson — Daniel Peterson
• 2021The Enchanted Christmas Cake — George
• 2020A Christmas Exchange — Jim
• 2020Disappearance at Clifton Hill — Canadian Border Agent
• Locke & Key — Detective Daniel Mutuku
• 2020Love in Harmony Valley — Felix
• Most Dangerous Game — Micky Dupree
• Nurses
• Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
• 2020The Oak Room — Richard
• The Wedding Planners — Pastor Evan, Pastor Evan Miller
• Transplant
• 2019Code 8 — Captain Milltown
• Ghostwriter — Alex Redmond
• Hudson & Rex — Father Xavier
• 2019Love Alaska — Jasper
• Northern Rescue — Insurance Adjuster
• See — Captain Gosset
• 2019Shazam! — Bill Parker
• 2019The Christmas Chalet — Steve
• 2019The Prodigy — Dr. Kagan
• The Umbrella Academy — Lance Ribbons
• Wayne — Local Sergeant
• Esme & Roy — Daddy Oooga (voice)
• 2018Every Day — Reverend Poole
• 2018Little Italy — Officer Hardaz
• 2018Once Upon a Christmas Miracle — Dr. Jenkins
• 2018Season for Love — George
• 2018The Christmas Chronicles — Dave Poveda
• 2018The Great C — Chief
• Titans — Manny Wolf
• Total DramaRama — (voice)
• American Gods — Gilbert
• 2017Christmas Inheritance — Sheriff Paul Greenleaf
• Creeped Out — Julian Tuthill
• Dino Dana — Dr. Webster
• 2017High-Rise Rescue — Chief Connors
• Salvation — Griff
• 2017The Shape of Water — Brewster Fuller
• Wishfart — Fireball Cat (voice)
• Atomic Puppet — Robo Ron (voice)
• Conviction — Detective John Moore
• Designated Survivor — Defense Secretary Nick Wooster
• Eyewitness — FBI Agent
• Falling Water — Lt. Robert Sutton
• Fangbone! — Stoneback (voice)
• Four in the Morning — Doug Wilson
• Incorporated — Lionel
• Kim's Convenience — Randy
• 2016Only I… — Jim
• Private Eyes — Julian Barrington
• The Other Kingdom — Oberon
• 2015Beeba Boys — Jeet Prosecutor
• Dinoswords
• Good Witch — Delivery Guy
• Inspector Gadget — Dr. Claw (voice)
• Killjoys — Captain Pike
• Man Seeking Woman — Ramirez
• 2015No Stranger Than Love — Sheriff Deputy
• Schitt's Creek — Dr. Litman
• 2015Spotlight — Cop in Coffee Shop
• The Expanse — Admiral Souther
• Annedroids — Construction Worker
• 2014How to Build a Better Boy — Coach Voss
• Odd Squad — Fladam
• 2014Sorority Surrogate — Channing
• The Strain — James
• 2013Fir Crazy — Malcolm
• Hemlock Grove — Guard
• 2013Kick-Ass 2 — Mother Russia Cop
• Rogue — Tyson Ballard
• 2012Baby's First Christmas — NYPD Mounted Police Officer
• Beauty and the Beast — Lieutenant Tran
• Saving Hope — Eric Hawes
• 201112 Dates of Christmas — Dr. Kirschner
• 2011388 Arletta Avenue — Officer
• Against the Wall — Nick
• Combat Hospital — Lt. Cliffgood
• 2011Dream House — Tommy
• Falling Skies — Mike
• Good Dog — Gerry Davis
• 2011Silent Witness — Detective Tally
• Suits — Parole Board Chair
• XIII: The Series
• Connor Undercover — Vice-Principal Grimsby
• Covert Affairs — Commanding Officer
• Dan for Mayor — Mr. Swifty
• 2010Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars — Alfred Cooper
• 2010Lullaby for Pi — The Father
• Sidekick — Superintendent
• The Doodlebops' Rockin' Road Show — Head T-Rex / Professor Poochini
• Unnatural History — Executor
• Aaron Stone — T. Abner Hall
• 2009Adoration — Car Owner
• 2009Before You Say 'I Do' — Paramedic #1
• 2009Gooby — Younger Cop
• Jimmy Two-Shoes — Slugmeister (voice)
• PoppetsTown — Alli (voice)
• Producing Parker — Dr. Perry (voice)
• Razzberry Jazzberry Jam — Electric Fan (voice)
• The Dating Guy — David (voice)
• The Listener — Armoured Van Driver
• 2008A Raisin in the Sun — Walter Lee Sr.
• 2008Kit Kittredge: An American Girl — Hobo Doctor
• 2008Roxy Hunter and the Horrific Halloween — Pierre
• The Border — Security Guard
• 2007Bottom Feeder — Otis
• 2007Diary of the Dead — Stranger
• Magi-Nation — Gorgram (voice), Agram (voice)
• The Dresden Files
• 2007The Lookout — Loan Officer
• Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks — Big Wheelie (voice)
• 2006Cradle of Lies — Detective Buck
• The Jane Show — Black Male Cop
• Yin Yang Yo! — Master Yo (voice)
• 2005Cake — Bartender
• Carl²
• 2005Descent — Man in Black
• 2005Fever Pitch — Husband
• It's Me...Gerald — Policeman
• Kojak — Det. Walters
• 2005Mayday — Carl Fessell
• Revelations — Roy
• Time Warp Trio — Ngombo (voice), Cooky (voice), York (voice)
• 2004Cube Zero — Haskell
• 2004Highwaymen — Detective
• 2004Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story — Guard Morales
• Mayday — Captain Negasa
• Missing — Avery Nash, Agent Avery Nash, Agent #2
• 2003Nothing — Co-Worker
• 2003Rescue Heroes: The Movie — Jake Justice (voice)
• Slings & Arrows — Horatio
• 2003The Pentagon Papers — Sgt. Watson
• 2002Cadet Kelly — Drill Instructor
• 2002Conviction — LA Gangster #2
• Cyberchase — Walter the Walrus (voice)
• Monk — Carl Jenkins
• 2002Paid in Full — D.C. #2
• Puppets Who Kill — Jones, Defence Lawyer
• 2002Recipe for Murder — Abraham Corneille
• Street Time — Alfa Goodman
• Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye — Curtis Sanford
• The Eleventh Hour — Detective Glen Madison
• 2001Blackout — Police Officer
• 2001Bojangles — Percy
• Doc — Blind Man
• 2001Don't Say a Word — Transit Cop
• Mutant X — Owen Taylor
• Paradise Falls — Ravenheart / Trevor Harman
• 2001Who Is Cletis Tout? — Visitor's Room Prison Guard
• 2000Bait — Cop
• Code Name: Eternity — Nolan
• 2000Dirty Pictures — Ed
• 2000Hendrix — Black Panther
• 2000Loser — Veterinarian
• Our Hero — Tommy
• Soul Food — Gino, Butter
• 2000The Last Debate — Room Service Waiter
• 1999Dogmatic — Colleague No. 1
• 1999Pushing Tin — Pilot (voice)
• Rescue Heroes
• 1999Sealed with a Kiss — Jerome McAllister
• The Avengers: United They Stand — Falcon (voice)
• Total Recall 2070 — Dr. Levy
• Twice in a Lifetime — Dwight White
• 1998Johnny 2.0 — Trenchcoat Man
• 1998The Fixer — O’Hare Attendant
• 1998The Wall — Calvin (segment "The Badge")
• Twitch City — Bad Cop, Sharpshooter 1
• 1998Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business — Orderly
• 1998Woo — West Indian Brother
• Earth: Final Conflict — Reporter, Guard, Fisk, Jens
• 1997Elvis Meets Nixon — Hip Stockboy
• 1997Goosebumps: Don't Go to Sleep! — Man in Black
• 1997Lethal Tender — Sammy
• Riverdale — Jerome 'Tiny' Sheffield
• 1997Too Close to Home — Patrolman
• 1996Critical Choices — A.T.F. Agent Smith
• 1996Extreme Measures — E.R. Doctor
• FX: The Series — Van Driver, Sakovitch
• 1996Goosebumps: You Can't Scare Me! — Mr. Finley
• 1996Her Desperate Choice — Mike Donner
• 1996Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance — Cartwright
• Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal — Technician
• 1996Talk to Me — Alex
• 1996What Kind of Mother Are You? — Tony Barrow
• Goosebumps — Man in Black, Mr. Finley (uncredited)
• Due South — Cop #2 (uncredited), Cop (uncredited)
• Heritage Minutes — Daniel Peterson
• Capacity — Peter
• Keeper of the Cup — Det. Hatcher