Lea Coco

The Louisiana native spent his formative years in Mississippi. There, he aspired to be an Olympic athlete, skilled in the discus, but an injury sidelined him. Fate then led Mr. Coco to his school's drama department and a production of Camelot that set him on his path. After two years at the University of Alabama, he transferred to Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University to earn his BFA degree.

He has since appeared in stage productions around the country, including with Chicago's About Face Theatre, in Douglas Carter Beane's The Little Dog Laughed; the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, in three productions including Edward II; Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater, in The Unmentionables; the Utah Shakespeare Festival, in Love's Labour's Lost; Madison [WI] Repertory Theatre, in Anna Christie; the Hartford Stage, in Twelfth Night; NYC's Astor Place Theater, with Blue Man Group; and the New York Shakespeare Festival at the city's famed Public Theater, in Othello.

Mr. Coco starred in the 2014 web series Millennial Parents, opposite Laura Eichhorn. For television, he has appeared on such shows as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Glades, Prison Break, The Closer, and Southland; and had a guest arc on The Client List.

His movie work includes two independent features directed by fellow Carnegie Mellon grad Tennyson Bardwell, Dorian Blues and The Skeptic; Salvador Litvak's Saving Lincoln; Devin Lawrence's upcoming thriller Sympathy, Said the Shark; and Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar.

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