Rory Cochrane

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Rory Cochrane
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Born (1972-02-28) February 28, 1972 (age 51)
OccupationActor
Years active1991–present

Rory Cochrane (born February 28, 1972) [1] is an American actor. He is known for playing Ron Slater in Dazed and Confused , Lucas in Empire Records , Lee Schatz in Argo , Freck in A Scanner Darkly , and Tim Speedle in CSI: Miami . [2]

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Career

Cochrane's first roles included a part in a docudrama about drugs on Saturday Night with Connie Chung (1989) and an appearance in an episode of H.E.L.P. (1990). He then made his film debut (with about fifteen seconds' screen time) in A Kiss Before Dying , followed by his first substantial role as Jeff Goldblum's son in Fathers & Sons .

Cochrane's breakout role came when he was cast as stoner Ron Slater in 1993's Dazed and Confused, a film that Entertainment Weekly ranked #3 in their "50 Best High School Movies" of all-time. [3] Cochrane followed up with a well-received performance as the psychotic Billy Mack in the Renée Zellweger action/comedy Love and a .45 in 1994. Cochrane again found success with a major role in the comedy Empire Records and appeared in Hart's War starring Bruce Willis and Colin Farrell. He also appeared in the Richard Linklater film A Scanner Darkly (2006).

Cochrane played the role of CSI Tim Speedle in CSI: Miami seasons 1–3. Cochrane also reprised his role in the season 6 episode "Bang, Bang, Your Debt", as a hallucination to Eric Delko.

In 2015, Cochrane had a supporting role as Boston mobster Stephen Flemmi in the true-crime film Black Mass , which starred Johnny Depp.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1991 A Kiss Before Dying Chico
1992 Fathers & Sons Ed
1993 Dazed and Confused Ron Slater
1994 Love and a .45 Billy Mack Black
1995 Empire Records Lucas
The Low Life John
1997 Dogtown Curtis Lasky
Right at your Door Brad
1998 The Adventures of Sebastian Cole "Chi-Town"
1999 Flawless "Pogo"
Black and White Chris O'Brien
2000 Sunset Strip Felix
The Prime Gig Joel
2001 Southlander Chance
2002 Hart's War Sergeant Carl S. Webb
2006 Right at Your Door Brad
A Scanner Darkly Charles Freck
2009 Public Enemies FBI Agent Carter Baum
2010 Passion Play Rickey
2011 Bringing Up Bobby Walt
2012 Argo Lee Schatz Hollywood Film Festival Award for Ensemble of the Year
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
Nominated—San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
2013 Parkland Earl Rose, The Coroner
2014 Oculus Alan Russell
2015 Black Mass Stevie "The Rifleman" Flemmi
2016 Soy Nero Sergeant McCloud
2017 The Most Hated Woman in America Gary Karr
Hostiles Master Sergeant Thomas Metz
2018 The Outsider [4] Anthony Panetti
White Boy Rick FBI Agent Frank Byrd
2021 Encounter Shepard West
Antlers Dan Lecroy
2022 Tyson's Run Bobby Hollerman
2023 Boston Strangler Detective DeLine

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1990 H.E.L.P. Second KidEpisode: "Fire Down Below"
1997 The Last Don Dante Clericuzio3 episodes
2002 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CSI Level 3 Tim SpeedleEpisode: "Cross-Jurisdictions"
2002–2007 CSI: Miami CSI Level 3 Tim Speedle50 episodes
2007 The Company Yevgeny Tsipin6 episodes
2009 24 Greg Seaton7 episodes
2019 Reprisal Burt6 episodes

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
2004 CSI: Miami CSI Level 3 Tim SpeedleVoice role

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