Alone 2020 Cast & Character Guide

Alone (2020) may have a notably small cast, but each character served a vital role in the psychological thriller. Directed by John Hyams and written by Mattias Olsson, Alone follows a recently widowed woman who is followed and kidnapped by a stalker while travelling alone. After escaping his remote cabin in the wilderness, she is forced to battle the elements while fighting off her kidnapper in a game of cat-and-mouse as he remains in close pursuit.

Upon its release in September 2020, Alone was well-received by critics. The film has an impressive 91% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, aggregated from 65 reviews. Among the aspects of Alone most praised by critics were the performances by the thriller’s minimal cast. The remote setting and threatening sense of isolation resulted in very few onscreen characters, making for a small but memorable cast in Alone.

Jules Willcox As Jessica

Actor: Jules Willcox was born on March 16 in Lancaster, Missouri. Alone was her first leading role in a major feature film and served as her breakout performance. Willcox is primarily known for her TV work in several notable series. In 2017, she appeared in season 4 of Chicago P.D. and season 3 of the Netflix series Bloodline. Since Alone, she’s starred in seasons 2-3 of FBI: Most Wanted and the Showtime series The L Word: Generation Q in 2022. She also starred in seasons 3-4 of the Apple TV+ series Servant and the NBC sci-fi show Quantum Leap in 2023.

Notable Movies & TV Shows: The Forgotten (2009), Teen Wolf (2013), Friends with Better Lives (2014), Chicago P.D. (2017), Bloodline (2017), Equal Standard (2020), Dirty John (2020), Cover Me (2020), On the Rocks (2020), FBI: Most Wanted (2021-2022), The L Word: Generation Q (2022), Servant (2022-2023), Quantum Leap (2023).

Character: In Alone, Willcox plays the lead role of Jessica, a young woman whose husband recently passed away. In the wake of his death, Jessica escapes the city to move to a remote area. On the road, she crosses paths with the same man multiple times, who ends up kidnapping her.

Marc Menchaca As Sam

Actor: Marc Menchaca, 48, was born in San Angelo, Texas in 1975. Menchaca is best known for playing Ruth Langmore’s uncle Russ in Ozark on Netflix. Prior to this, he starred in seasons 1-2 of Homeland as Lauder Wakefield and played various characters on Inside Amy Schumer. Menchaca also starred in the first seasons of The Sinner in 2018 and Manifest in 2019. In 2020, he shared the screen again with his Ozark co-star Jason Bateman in the HBO miniseries The Outsider. He has starred in films like She’s Lost Control, Reparation, No One Gets Out Alive, and The Creator.

Notable Movies & TV Shows: Homeland (2011-2012), This Is Where We Live (2013), Inside Amy Schumer (2013-2015), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2013), She’s Lost Control (2014), The Blacklist (2015), Reparation (2015), Chicago P.D. (2015), Ace the Case (2016), Where is Kyra? (2017), The Sinner (2018), Manifest (2019), Black Mirror (2019), Every Time I Die (2019), The Outsider (2020), No One Gets Out Alive (2021), Curb Your Enthusiasm (2021), Jack Ryan (2022), White House Plumbers (2023), The Creator (2023), Beacon 23 (2023) American Rust (2024).

Character: Menchaca plays the bloodthirsty stalker who kidnaps Jessica after breaking into her car and drugging her in Alone. He then brings her to his remote cabin and stays on her tail after she escapes. Menchaca’s character remains unnamed until near the end of the film, when it is revealed that his name is Sam.

Anthony Heald As Robert

Actor: Anthony Heald, 79, was born in New Rochelle, New York in 1944. Heald is best known for playing Dr. Chilton in the Oscar-winning film The Silence of the Lambs in 1991, a role he later reprised in the 2002 Silence of the Lambs’ prequel Red Dragon. From 2000-2004, Heald played Vice Principal Scott Gruber on the Fox drama Boston Public, created by David E. Kelley. He also starred as Judge Harvey Cooper in Kelley’s legal drama The Practice and the spinoff series Boston Legal. Heald has appeared in films like The Pelican Brief, Deep Rising, and X-Men: The Last Stand.

Notable Movies & TV Shows: Outrageous Fortune (1987), Postcards from the Edge (1990), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Cheers (1993), The Pelican Brief (1993), The Client (1994), A Time to Kill (1996), Deep Rising (1998), 8MM (1999), Proof of Life (2000), The X-Files (2000), Frasier (2000), Boston Public (2000-2004), The Practice (2000-2001), Red Dragon (2002), Boston Legal (2005-2008), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Accepted (2006), Monday Mornings (2013).

Character: Heald plays Robert, the hunter who encounters Jessica in the woods, in Alone. After noticing her dishevelled state, Robert offers to help Jessica by giving her a ride and providing her with food, water, and new boots. While he’s driving with Jessica through the forest, they get blocked by a fallen tree and encounter Sam.

Alone Supporting Cast & Characters

Jonathan Rosenthal as Eric: Serving as an executive producer on Alone, Rosenthal appears as Jessica’s late husband Eric in old photos and an old video of the couple in the film. Rosenthal is best known for starring in Seventy-Nine (2013), End of a Gun (2016), Desolate (2018), and The Abandon (2022), the latter two he also produced. Rosenthal has also produced other films, such as American Woman (2018).