Rory Cochrane

Rory Cochrane (born February 28, 1972) is an American actor. He is known as playing Ron Slater in Dazed and Confused, Lucas in Empire Records, and Tim Speedle in CSI: Miami.

Cochrane was born in Syracuse, New York to an Irish-American father and an Indian-American mother.^{[citation needed]} He has two siblings, Brendan and Siobhan. He spent his childhood in Grantchester, England.^{[citation needed]}

Cochrane returned to the United States and was educated in New York City and trained in the drama department of NYC's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. His 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 and Sons.

Cochrane played major roles in the films Empire Records and Dazed and Confused, and appeared in Hart's War starring Bruce Willis & Colin Farrell. He also appeared in the Richard Linklater film A Scanner Darkly (2006). Cochrane reprised his role as Tim Speedle on CSI: Miami in the episode "Bang, Bang, Your Debt", as a hallucination to Det. Eric Delko.

He played the character of Greg Seaton in 24 alongside Jon Voight.^[1]

Selected filmography

• 24 (Season 7, 2009)
• Public Enemies (2009)
• The Company (2007)
• Right at Your Door (2006)
• A Scanner Darkly (2006)
• CSI: Miami (50 episodes, 2002-2004, 1 Episode, 2007)
• Hart's War (2002)
• Southlander (2001)
• The Prime Gig (2000)
• Sunset Strip (2000)
• Black and White (1998)
• Flawless (1999)
• The Adventures of Sebastian Cole (1998)
• The Last Don (1997) (mini) TV Series
• Dogtown (1997)
• The Low Life (1995)
• Empire Records (1995)
• Love and a .45 (1994)
• Dazed and Confused (1993)
• Fathers & Sons (1992)
• A Kiss Before Dying (1991)

References

External links

• Rory Cochrane at the Internet Movie Database
• Rory Cochrane at TV.com