Dean Cochran
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Dean Cochran (born March 18, 1972, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a film actor most recognizable as the star of such films as Air Marshal and Target of Opportunity. He has also acted alongside Colin Farrell in Phone Booth, Lindsay Lohan in Just My Luck, and Chuck Norris in The Cutter.
Dean Cochran, a graduate of Tulane University, began his acting career in college, earning his Screen Actors Guild card in the film Blue Sky, for which Jessica Lange won an Oscar. While at Tulane, Cochran competed in and won an international acting competition where he was discovered by talent manager Al Onorato, the same manager who discovered Katie Holmes.
Cochran has performed the lead roles in a number of plays written by William Shakespeare, including Macbeth, Henry V, Hamlet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, as well as A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Burn This. After moving to Los Angeles, Cochran guest starred in various network television series roles. Cochran's breakthrough came when he was cast in the lead in the action film Air Marshal, and has more recently starred in "Shark Zone" in addition to being featured in the current season of Soap Network's I Wanna Be a Soap Star.
In 1999, he married former Miss USA Brandi Sherwood. Sherwood is currently a model on the long running game show The Price Is Right.
Dean is a devout fan of the New Orleans Saints.
