If you’ve been watching film or TV over the last 15 years, chances are you’ve see Emory Cohen in something. He’s starred alongside the likes of Bradley Cooper, Saoirse Ronan, Kirsten Dunst and Brad Pitt. And now, he has a role in “Marty Supreme” with Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow and Odessa A’zion.
Here are 18 things to know about him.
1. Emory Isaac Cohen was born on March 13, 1990 in Manhattan.
2. He’s a Pisces!
3. He’s also a fourth-generation New Yorker.
4. He has Russian Jewish ancestry. “The old joke in my family is that the last person who isn’t from New York was coming from Russia,” Emory said in an interview.
5. Emory started acting because of a high school crush!
“She was in the drama class and so he started hanging around that class,” His mom wrote in a newsletter. “The teacher told him he had to participate, so he started helping out, moving props and doing whatever was asked of him. A male part was available and he was asked to read for it.”
6. His first onstage role was as Mr. Peachum in “The Three Penny Opera.”
7. He studied acting at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, to which he received a full scholarship.
8. Emory’s first major role was as Leo in “Smash.” Hot take, but according to him, it wasn’t canceled prematurely.
“Look, this is a business, and they were spending a lot of money on this show, and I don’t know if it was doing what they wanted and so that’s a part of the business,” he told Vulture in 2016.
9. He played Bradley Cooper‘s son in the movie “The Place Beyond the Pines.”
10. Emory starred alongside Saoirse Ronan in the 2015 drama “Brooklyn.” He plays Tony, the love interest to Saoirse’s Eilis.
11. Though “Brooklyn” was shot in Montreal, Emory said in 2016 that he had never had a Montreal bagel. “I’m a New York Jew!” He exclaimed during a roundtable at TIFF. “That’s offensive!”
12. Emory was inspired by his dog when playing Tony.
“I thought of Tony as a loyal dog and Eilis was his owner, if you will,” he explained in an interview. “My dog is this crazy, crazy dog, and she does this weird thing with her feet when she gets excited, she keeps stamping them into the ground but doesn’t actually move. I thought of that as the sensation Tony has in his stomach when he sees Eilis. He’s daydreaming about the nights where he left Eilis and can’t sleep because he’s thinking about her, or the nights where he didn’t get to see her at all and was in agony.”
13. For Emory’s performance in “Brooklyn,” Variety critic Kristopher Tapley called him “one of the most exciting actors of his generation.”
14. As Homer in “The OA,” the thing about the show that resonated with Emory the most was the “idea of building your own family.”
15. Wonder how Emory does it? You can listen to him discuss his process as an actor in an episode of the podcast “Back to One.”
16. To play real-life murderer Kristian “Varg” Virkenes in “Lords of Chaos,” Emory approached the role by actually not getting too caught up in it.
“Look, on some days, for more emotional [scenes], you may be a little bit quieter,” Cohen told Entertainment Weekly. “But all in all, I like to kind of goof off a bit, and I don’t really stay in it. You’re in it once you’re just there, that’s my belief. I do a lot of preparation before, I do a lot of work to forget about it.”
17. Emory had a brief appearance in season five of “Only Murders in the Building.” He played a younger version of Lester, the doorman of the Arconia who dies under mysterious circumstances.
18. In “Marty Supreme,” Emory played Ira Mizler, the husband of Odessa A’zion’s Rachel Mizler.
