Plucked from a job delivering pizzas by director David Lynch to play motorcycling loner James Hurley, Laura Palmer's secret lover on the cult TV soap opera, "Twin Peaks", Marshall had previously starred as a date rapist in the CBS Schoolbreak Special, "No Means No", produced by his father, William R. Greenblatt. He made his feature debut playing a sympathetic stockade guard in family friend Martin Sheen's military prison drama "Cadence" (1990), and later as an amateur boxer in the film "Gladiator" (1992). That same year he appeared as a slow-witted Marine who is put on trial in Rob Reiner's blockbuster, "A Few Good Men".