Rory Cochrane (born February 28, 1972) is an American actor. He is known for playing Ron Slater in ''
Dazed and Confused'', Lucas in ''
Empire Records
''Empire Records'' is a 1995 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Allan Moyle, written by Carol Heikkinen, and starring an ensemble cast including Anthony LaPaglia, Maxwell Caulfield, Debi Mazar, Rory Cochrane, Johnny ...
'', Lee Schatz in ''
Argo'', Freck in ''
A Scanner Darkly'', and
Tim Speedle
The following is a list of characters from the CBS crime drama television series, '' CSI: Miami''. It follows Miami criminalists (identified as "the Crime Scene Investigators") working for the Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) as they use phys ...
in ''
CSI: Miami''.
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''.
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
role
A role (also rôle or social role) is a set of connected behaviors, rights, obligations, beliefs, and norms as conceptualized by people in a social situation. It is an
expected or free or continuously changing behavior and may have a given indi ...
in the comedy ''
Empire Records
''Empire Records'' is a 1995 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Allan Moyle, written by Carol Heikkinen, and starring an ensemble cast including Anthony LaPaglia, Maxwell Caulfield, Debi Mazar, Rory Cochrane, Johnny ...
'' 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
The following is a list of characters from the CBS crime drama television series, '' CSI: Miami''. It follows Miami criminalists (identified as "the Crime Scene Investigators") working for the Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) as they use phys ...
.
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
Television
Video games
References
External links
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1972 births
Living people
American male film actors
Male actors from Syracuse, New York
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award winners
American male television actors