Assaf Cohen
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Assaf Cohen | |
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| Born | October 31, 1972 |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2002–present |
Assaf Cohen (born October 31, 1972) is an American actor.
Early life
Cohen was born in Mountain View, California and raised in Palo Alto, California, where his family settled after living for a number of years in Israel. He is of Yemenite, Russian, and Israeli descent. Cohen graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a BA degree in Integrative Biology. Foregoing earlier plans of attending medical school, he instead pursued professional acting.
Career
Cohen worked for a few years at regional theaters such as The Magic, Marin Shakespeare Company, Marin Theatre Company TheatreWorks, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, and PCPA Theaterfest. He then next moved east and earned an MFA degree in acting from the Professional Actors Training Program at Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts, where he studied under New York Acting teachers William Esper, Maggie Flanigan and Deborah Hedwall. He later moved to Los Angeles, where he performed at theaters including South Coast Repertory and began his career in film and television.
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | American Gulag | Short film | |
| 2004 | A Moment of Grace | Arab radio announcer | Short film |
| 2005 | Flightplan | Ahmed | |
| West Bank Story | Menorah Mickey | Academy Award winner, Best Live Action Short Film | |
| 2007 | Equal Opportunity | Al'Ahhhhkkkkhh bin Laden | |
| 2009 | Fast & Furious | Border Agent #1 | |
| 2011 | Convincing Clooney | Jason | |
| 2013 | Peace After Marriage | Boris | |
| 2014 | Home | Dr. Aranda |
Television
External links
- American Jews
- American male television actors
- American male film actors
- 1972 births
- Living people
- American people of Russian-Jewish descent
- American people of Israeli descent
- American people of Yemeni-Jewish descent
- People from Mountain View, California
- Male actors from Palo Alto, California
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Rutgers University alumni