Matthew Joseph Cohen (born September 28, 1982) is an American

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and filmmaker best known for playing young John Winchester and the archangel

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in ''

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'', Aiden Dennison on the teen drama series ''

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'', and as Griffin Munro on the

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''. In 2019, he became a correspondent for ''

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'', but was laid off in 2023.

Early life

Cohen was born in

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. He is

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. Cohen played football and ran track in high school. He attended American Heritage School from 2nd to 12th grade and graduated in 2001. Cohen competed in auto racing and motocross. He graduated with honors. Cohen went to

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where he studied business. While in college, he enrolled in acting classes. After finishing college, Cohen moved to

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to pursue acting.

Career

Cohen has starred in several films such as ''Boogeyman 2'', ''Dark House'' and he played lead character Aiden Dennison on

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's ''

''. He played Syd on ''Rockville CA'', a WB web series created by ''

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''s

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. In 2009, he co-produced ''The Outside'', which starred

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and ''South of Nowheres

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. In late 2008, he had a guest-starring role in the third episode of

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's fourth season of ''

'' as a young John Winchester, which he later reprised in the fifth-season episode "The Song Remains the Same". He reappeared in the eleventh season's "Baby," but was revealed to be an unknown being posing as John Winchester to communicate with Sam in his dreams. This being was later identified as

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. He portrayed Johnny Jones in the slasher–thriller film ''

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''. He guest-starred in the fourth season of '' 90210'' as Jeremy, after replacing

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in the role. It was announced on August 11, 2015, that Cohen was to recur in the second season of ''

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'' as Levi, who is described as a sexy, edgy, working-class guy. He will first appear in the second episode and will appear in a total of three episodes. In 2016, he joined the cast of ''

'' as Griffin Munro. In March 2019, it was announced that Cohen would leave ''General Hospital'', making his last appearance on March 22, 2019. In December 2019, it was announced that Cohen would return to ''General Hospital'' for a short period of time; he returned from December 6–10, 2019. As of February 2020, Cohen is a director on ''

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''.

Personal life

Cohen married his ''South of Nowhere'' co-star

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on May 18, 2011. Mandy gave birth to their son, Macklin, in April 2015.

Filmography

Film

Television

Other work

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cohen, Matt 1982 births Living people Male actors from Miami American male film actors American male television actors Florida State University alumni