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Lea Coco

Lea Coco

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Lea Coco (born April 8, 1977) is an television and move actor from Mississippi. [10]

Personal Life

Lea Coco was born in Louisiana, his grandfather and father owned a cotton gin until hard times forced the family to move to Mississippi. His father is a machinist and his mother is a secretary. Lea is a natural thespian and spent a lot of time acting on the stage before he got behind the lens. [6]

In 2016, he started a relationship with Jaimi Paige.

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Education

Lea Coco wanted to pursue athletics and maybe even compete in the olympics, until a shoulder injury led him to enroll in drama classes:

"I threw the discus all throughout high school. I had a discus scholarship to go to Louisiana State and my aspiration was to become an Olympic athlete"

He was even cast in his first show and had a blast acting in Camelot. Lea Coco spent two years at University of Alabama before switching to Carnegie Mellon University, School of Drama and graduating with a BFA. [2]

Career

Lea Coco made his television debut on Fox’s hit drama Prison Break in 2004. Since then he's made appearances in several hit shows including The Closer, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Criminal Minds, "Southland,” Bones, and Stitchers, "Making Moves” and Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey’s critically acclaimed series Queen Sugar. [3]

In film, Coco has played Agent Sisk in Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar, and Clint Collins in Ciaran Foy’s Sinister 2. He also starred in the Hallmark television movie "The Sweetest Christmas" and the short film Out of Courage 2: Out for Vengeance. Before hitting the silver screen, Lea Coco acted acted in some of the most prestigious playhouses like The Public Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Utah Shakespeare Theatre and the Steppenwolf Theatre. He once had a lead role in “The Little Dog Laughed" at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater and has even performed as part of the Blue Man Group. Lea definitely has a sense of humor about his preference for the stage: [3][4][7][8]

"I subscribe to the ideal—you’re an artist and the more you think about how you’re going to be a better artist and the less you think about how you’re going to make money doing this, everything will take care of itself.

Maybe this is why I’ll be begging on the street when I’m 65 and there’s no more social security.

Doing Chekhov, perhaps?

Yeah, doing Chekhov…maybe alone…on the street corner…for pennies"

In 2013, Lea Coco contributed several songs to the soundtrack of Saving Lincoln and even acted in the film as Ward Hill Lamon. His highest rated film on Rotten Tomatoes is National Lampoon Presents The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell with a score of 67%. Lea Coco has also acted in Sympathy, Said the Shark, Wolf Mother, The Relic and Dorian Blues. [5]

Filmography

Lea Coco has a long and diverse career in film and television: [9]

TitleTypeYear(s)
Queen SugarTV Series2016-2019
Two SandsShort2019
NCIS: New OrleansTV Series2019
The Sweetest ChristmasTV Movie2017
Making MovesTV Series2016
Wolf MotherMovie2016
StitchersTV Series2016
BonesTV Series2016
How to Survive a BreakupShort2015
Criminal MindsTV Series2015
Sympathy, Said the SharkMovie2015
Sinister 2Movie2015
BurgundianShort2014
HomewardShort2014
Millennial ParentsTV Series2014
What's Up with Your Friend?Short2013
CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationTV Series2013
Saving LincolnMovie2013
Go OnTV Series2013
The King of URLsShort2012
LegitimateShort2012
The GladesTV Series2012
The Client ListTV Series2012
SouthlandTV Series2012
A Scene from a Street in LAShort2012
J. EdgarMovie2011
ServitudeTV Series2011
The CloserTV Series2010
The SkepticMovie2009
The Beach Party at the Threshold of HellMovie2006
Prison BreakTV Series2005-2006
Dorian BluesMovie2004
Out of Courage 2: Out for VengeanceShort1999

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