Scott Cohen Biography

Fast Facts

• Born to a jazz musician father and a school teacher mother
• Before becoming an actor, Scott worked as a photographer's assistant, toy demonstrator, waiter and substitute teacher
• Originally aspired to go into music and learned to play the piano
• Quote: "Do you think Beethoven was completely satisfied at the end of the Fifth Symphony? I think no; that's why he wrote a Sixth Symphony․"
• Quote: "To me, good storytelling is about journeys․ It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries, circumstances that put people in different situations․"
• His theater credits include performing in Broadway's "Losing Louie" for the Manhattan Theater Club as well as "The Other Woman" and "A Nervous Smile․"
• Best known for his recurring role as Lorelei Gilmore's love interest on "Gilmore Girls․"
• Voiced Jake Quinlan in the 1996 video game "Ripper․"
• While in Connecticut filming "Kissing Jessica Stein," he was mistaken for a robbery suspect, handcuffed and put in a squad car, but was immediately released when the mistake was realized
• For over 10 years, he has served on the Columbia County Film Festival Advisory Board