Scott Cohen | |
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Born | [1] | December 19, 1961
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1990–present |
Scott Cohen is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Luca Falcone in the HBO miniseries The Penguin (2024), his performance as detective Steve Thomas in Perfect Murder, Perfect Town (2000), his recurring role as Lorelai Gilmore's love interest Max Medina on the WB series Gilmore Girls (2000–2003), and his role as Josh in the indie romantic film Kissing Jessica Stein (2001).
In 1990, Cohen was offered a breakthrough role in Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder . In the video game Ripper , he portrays protagonist Jake Quinlan. He appeared in the movie Gia with Angelina Jolie, as a parole officer in the Showtime original series Street Time with Rob Morrow, had a recurring role as Det. Harry Denby in the seventh season of NYPD Blue , and was featured in the 2005 NBC series Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Det. Chris Ravell.
In 2000 Cohen had a co-starring role as Wolf in the hit miniseries The 10th Kingdom , where he played a mythical character from a land of fairy tales. [2] He starred opposite Kimberly Williams, John Larroquette, Dianne Wiest, Daniel Lapaine, Ed O'Neill, and Rutger Hauer. The miniseries won many awards, such as the 2000 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design and nine OFTA Television Awards for different categories including but not limited to best new theme song, best visual effects, best costume design, best production design, and best mini series with Anne Dudley the award-winning composer. [3] [4]
Also in 2000 Cohen played Max Medina, in the hit TV series Gilmore Girls , as a teacher at Chilton high school where the main character's daughter went to school. Medina became the boyfriend of Lauren Graham's character, Lorelai, in season one and fiancé in season two.
In 2002–2003, he made some appearances on the game show Pyramid , hosted by Donny Osmond. He guest-starred in the premiere episode of the eighth season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent , playing the role of a city politician with a dark family secret and whose daughter is a drug addict involved with a drug dealer boyfriend killed mysteriously in the opening scene.
Cohen played Jack Woolf in the movie The Other Woman with Natalie Portman and Charlie Tahan. He starred in the British thriller Iron Cross . In the film he plays Ronnie, whose father, Joseph, is played by Roy Scheider. Cohen was on USA Network's drama series Necessary Roughness as the fixer, Nico Careles.
Cohen had a role in The Carrie Diaries as Carrie's dad's old friend starting in Season 1 Episode 3. He gives Carrie her internship at his law firm in New York City, and Carrie dates his son. He also courts and eventually marries Larissa, Carrie's boss at Interview magazine.
Cohen starred opposite Hope Davis in the NBC drama Allegiance .
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Reference(s) |
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1990 | Jacob's Ladder | Resident Doctor | [5] [6] | |
1992 | The Mambo Kings | Bernadito | [5] [6] | |
1993 | Sweet Evil | Mike | Video | [5] [6] |
1995 | Roommates | Attending Intern | [5] [6] | |
1996 | Final Vendetta | Michael Miller | ||
Vibrations | Simeon | Video | [5] [6] | |
1997 | Private Parts | Friend | [5] [6] | |
Camp Stories | Schnair | [5] | ||
A Brother's Kiss | Rapist | [6] | ||
Fall | Derick | [6] | ||
1998 | Better Living | Larry | [6] | |
1999 | Cross-Eyed | Melville | ||
2000 | King of the Jungle | Officer Norman Turner | [6] | |
2001 | Kissing Jessica Stein | Josh Meyers | [5] [6] | |
2003 | Psychoanalysis Changed My Life | Nick Zurmer | Short film | [6] |
2004 | Knots | Dave Siegel | ||
2005 | The Circle | Stan | [5] [6] | |
Confess | Media Executive | [6] | ||
2006 | Brother's Shadow | Jake Groden | [5] [6] | |
2007 | Mitch Albom's For One More Day | Len Benetto | [5] [6] | |
2008 | The Understudy | Jonny | [6] | |
2009 | Fortune | Gabriel Leguard | ||
Freud's Magic Powder | Philipp Freud | Short film | ||
Winter of Frozen Dreams | Barbara's Lawyer | [5] | ||
The Other Woman | Jack Woolf | [5] [6] | ||
Everybody's Fine | Music Conductor | [5] [6] | ||
Moonlight Serenade | David Volgler | Video | [5] | |
Iron Cross | Ronnie | [5] [6] | ||
2010 | Meet My Boyfriend!!! | Unknown | Short film | |
Please Give | Dr. Lerner | [6] | ||
Capture the Flag | Luke Edwards | Short film | ||
Love & Other Drugs | Ted Goldstein | [5] [6] | ||
2011 | I'm Coming Over | Werner | Short film | |
Loveless | Ricky | [5] [6] | ||
3 Weeks to Daytona | Chuck Weber | [6] | ||
2012 | Get the Gringo | Jackson | [5] [6] | |
Magic: The Gathering - The Musical | Dark Stranger | Short film | ||
2013 | Louder Than Words | Nick Spano | [6] | |
2015 | To Whom It May Concern | Mike | ||
Anesthesia | Dr. Laffer | [5] [6] | ||
James White | Barry White | [6] | ||
2016 | As You Are | Tom | [5] [6] [7] | |
Jack of the Red Hearts | Mark Adams | [5] [6] | ||
2017 | Who We Are Now | Sam | [5] [6] | |
Active Adults | Mick | [6] | ||
2018 | Write When You Get Work | Guy Brinckerhoff | [6] | |
Braid | Detective Siegel | [6] | ||
The Week Of | Ron Elliman | [5] [6] | ||
2019 | South Mountain | Edgar | [6] | |
All the Little Things We Kill | Gary Anderson | |||
2023 | The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed | Allen | [8] |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Reference(s) |
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1994 | NYPD Blue | Eddie Reyna | Episode: "Double Abandando" | [6] |
One Life to Live | Ray Martino | Unknown episodes | ||
1995 | New York News | Greg Wilson | Episode: "The Using Game" | |
The Wharf Rat | Matt Martin | Television film | [5] [6] | |
1996 | Gotti | Gene Gotti | Television film | [6] |
1997 | Feds | Rod Nesbitt | Episode: "Missing Pieces" | |
Law & Order | Eddie Newman | 3 episodes | [6] | |
Oz | FBI Agent Jeremy Goldstein | Episode: "God's Chillin'" | ||
Dellaventura | Unknown | Episode: "Music of the Night" | ||
F/X: The Series | Michael Lopez | 2 episodes | [6] | |
1998 | Gia | Mike Mansfield | Television film | [5] [6] |
New York Undercover | Petrello | Episode: "Mob Street" | [6] | |
2000 | Silent Witness | Soriano | Television film | |
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder | Steve Thomas | Television film | [5] [6] | |
The 10th Kingdom | Wolf | Television miniseries; 10 episodes | [5] [6] [7] | |
NYPD Blue | Detective Harry Denby | Recurring role; 9 episodes | [6] | |
2000–2003 | Gilmore Girls | Max Medina | Recurring role; 13 episodes | [6] [7] |
2001 | Kiss My Act | Michael True | Television film | [5] [6] |
2002 | The Practice | Assistant District Attorney Mitchell 'Mitch' Wheeler | 2 episodes | [6] |
2002–2003 | Street Time | James Liberti | Main role; 20 episodes | |
2004 | The Men's Room | Charlie | 4 episodes | |
Without a Trace | Bernie Scoggins | Episode: "Malone v. Malone" | ||
2005 | Numb3rs | James Grace | Episode: "Soft Target" | [6] |
2005–2006 | Law & Order: Trial by Jury | Detective Chris Ravell | Main role; 10 episodes | [6] |
2006 | Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America | Governor Mike Newsome | Television film | [5] [6] |
2007 | Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day | Len Benetto | Television film | [5] [6] |
2008 | Cashmere Mafia | Nicholas Branch | Episode: "Stay with Me" | [6] |
The Return of Jezebel James | Marcus Sonti | 4 episodes | [6] | |
2009 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Neil Hayes-Fitzgerald | Episode: "Playing Dead" | |
CSI: NY | Aaron Lesnick | Episode: "Yahrzeit" | [6] | |
The Amazing Mrs. Novak | Simon Wright | Television film | ||
2010 | The Untitled Michael Jacobs Pilot | Josh | Television pilot | |
Castle | Lieutenant Stan Holliwell | Episode: "Den of Thieves" | [6] | |
Grey's Anatomy | Dr. Tom Evans | Episode: "Hook, Line and Sinner" | ||
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Aaron Custer | Episode: "Doctor Who" | [6] | |
The Glades | Senator Donald Chapman | Episode: "Exposed" | ||
Hawaii Five-0 | Roland Lowry | Episode: "Ohana" | [6] | |
Blue Bloods | Dr. Warren Wakefield | Episode: "Chinatown" | [6] | |
2011 | Justice for Natalee Holloway | John Q. Kelly | Television film | [5] [6] |
Curb Your Enthusiasm | Ira | Episode: "Car Periscope" | [6] | |
Unforgettable | Dr. Sam Barlow | Episode: "Spirited Away" | [6] | |
2011–2012 | Pan Am | Everett Henson | 3 episodes | [6] |
2011–2013 | Necessary Roughness | Dominic Eugene "Nico" Careles | Main role; 38 episodes | [6] |
2012 | Person of Interest | Inspector Doug Rasmussen | Episode: "Risk" | |
2013–2014 | The Carrie Diaries | Harlan Silver | 10 episodes | [6] |
2014 | Elementary | Nolan Sharp | Episode: "Corpse De Ballet" | [6] |
2015 | Allegiance | Mark O'Connor | Main role; 13 episodes | [6] |
2016 | The Mysteries of Laura | Vince Santiani | Episode: "The Mystery of the End of Watch" | [6] |
The Good Wife | Jeffrey Nachmann | Episode: "Unmanned" | [6] | |
2016–2020 | Billions | Pete Decker | 4 episodes | [7] |
2017 | I'm Dying Up Here | Roy Brenner | 2 episodes | [9] |
2018 | Taken | Kasparov | Episode: "Strelochnik" | |
The Americans | Glenn Haskard | 6 episodes | ||
2019 | The Fix | Ezra Wolf | Main role; 10 episodes | [10] |
Bluff City Law | James Marshall | Episode: "25 Years to Life" | ||
2020 | The Bold Type | Miles Shaw | 2 episodes | |
2021 | The Equalizer | Robert Harrington, Sr. | Episode: "It Takes a Village" | |
2021–2022 | Power Book II: Ghost | Congressman Rick Sweeney | 2 episodes | [11] |
2022 | The Resident | Dr. Robert Porter | 3 episodes | |
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel | Solomon Melamid | Episode: "How to Chew Quietly and Influence People" | [12] | |
2022–2023 | East New York | Adam Lustig | 4 episodes | [13] |
2023 | Ancient Empires | Narrator | Voice; 3 episodes | [14] |
2024 | The Girls on the Bus | Charlie Greene | [15] | |
The Penguin | Luca Falcone | [16] [17] |
Year | Title | Role | Role | Reference(s) |
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1996 | Ripper | Jake Quinlan |
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