# Rory Cochrane

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, Lee Schatz in Argo, Freck in A Scanner Darkly, and Tim Speedle 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, a film that Entertainment Weekly ranked #3 in their "50 Best High School Movies" of all-time. 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 in the comedy Empire Records 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.
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

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1991 | A Kiss Before Dying | Chico | |
| 1992 | Fathers & Sons | Ed | |
| 1993 | Dazed and Confused | Ron Slater | |
| 1994 | Love and a .45 | Billy Mack Black | |
| 1995 | Empire Records | Lucas | |
| 1995 | The Low Life | John | |
| 1997 | Dogtown | Curtis Lasky | |
| 1997 | Right at your Door | Brad | |
| 1998 | The Adventures of Sebastian Cole | "Chi-Town" | |
| 1999 | Flawless | "Pogo" | |
| 1999 | Black and White | Chris O'Brien | |
| 2000 | Sunset Strip | Felix | |
| 2000 | The Prime Gig | Joel | |
| 2001 | Southlander | Chance | |
| 2002 | Hart's War | Sergeant Carl S. Webb | |
| 2006 | Right at Your Door | Brad | |
| 2006 | A Scanner Darkly | Charles Freck | |
| 2009 | Public Enemies | FBI Agent Carter Baum | |
| 2010 | Passion Play | Rickey | |
| 2011 | Bringing Up Bobby | Walt | |
| 2012 | Argo | Lee Schatz | Hollywood Film Festival Award for Ensemble of the Year Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated—San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast |
| 2013 | Parkland | Earl Rose, The Coroner | |
| 2014 | Oculus | Alan Russell | |
| 2015 | Black Mass | Stevie "The Rifleman" Flemmi | |
| 2016 | Soy Nero | Sergeant McCloud | |
| 2017 | The Most Hated Woman in America | Gary Karr | |
| 2017 | Hostiles | Master Sergeant Thomas Metz | |
| 2018 | The Outsider | Anthony Panetti | |
| 2018 | White Boy Rick | FBI Agent Frank Byrd | |
| 2021 | Encounter | Shepard West | |
| 2021 | Antlers | Dan Lecroy | |
| 2022 | Tyson's Run | Bobby Hollerman | |
| 2023 | Boston Strangler | Detective DeLine | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1990 | H.E.L.P. | Second Kid | Episode: "Fire Down Below" |
| 1997 | The Last Don | Dante Clericuzio | 3 episodes |
| 2002 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | CSI Level 3 Tim Speedle | Episode: "Cross-Jurisdictions" |
| 2002–2007 | CSI: Miami | CSI Level 3 Tim Speedle | 50 episodes |
| 2007 | The Company | Yevgeny Tsipin | 6 episodes |
| 2009 | 24 | Greg Seaton | 7 episodes |
| 2019 | Reprisal | Burt | 6 episodes |
| 2024 | Yellowstone | Detective Dillard | 4 episodes |

### Video games

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2004 | CSI: Miami | CSI Level 3 Tim Speedle | Voice role |