Sandy Cohen
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| Sandy Cohen | |
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 Peter Gallagher as Sandy Cohen |
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| First appearance | Premiere (episode 1.01) |
| Last appearance | The End's Not Near, It's Here (episode 4.16) |
| Cause/Reason | Series Finale |
| Information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | 49 (flashforward) 44 (last appearance) |
| Occupation | Law Professor |
| Family | Sophie Cohen (mother) Kirsten Cohen (wife) Seth Cohen (son) Ryan Atwood (adopted son) Sophie Rose Cohen (daughter) Caleb Nichol (father-in-law, deceased), Summer Roberts (daughter-in-law) |
| Relationships | Kirsten Cohen (wife) Rebecca Bloom (ex-fiancé) |
| Episode count | 92 |
| Portrayed by | Peter Gallagher |
| Created by | Josh Schwartz |
Sanford "Sandy" Cohen is a fictional character on the FOX series The O.C.. He is played by Peter Gallagher.
Sandy, a lawyer, racontuer and son of Sophie Cohen, is married to Kirsten Cohen. Their eldest child, Seth, is something of a social misfit. Sandy was originally a public defender, which brought him into contact with troubled teen, Ryan Atwood, whom he eventually adopted and took on as his own after his mother abandoned him. He has since then gone into private practice in a law firm, before going to start his own law firm and finally taking over his late father-in-law's company, the Newport Group. He and his wife have three children.
Throughout the series, Sandy serves as a moral center, often guiding and supporting Seth and Ryan through their problems.
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[edit] Season One
Sandy has a mostly stable marriage with Kirsten, with the occasional problem surfacing. In season one, unresolved issues of trust and jealousy came to the surface with regards to Kirsten's former childhood sweetheart, Jimmy Cooper, who was also their next-door neighbor.
He left the Public Defender's Office to go into private practice at Patridge, Savage and Khan, along with his former colleague from the District Attorney's office, Rachel Hoffman. She causes tension between Sandy and Kirsten, when Kirsten finds Sandy enjoying a drink with Rachel one night. Later on, Sandy and Rachel get involved in a case against Caleb's company, the Newport Group. Both of them were ultimately accused by Caleb of having an affair. Not long afterwards, when Rachel and Sandy were working late in her apartment, she makes a play for him, but he rejects her advances. He and Kirsten then attempt to set her up with Jimmy, to no avail.
[edit] Season Two
In the second season, Rebecca Bloom, an old flame of Sandy's, came back into their lives, causing difficulties between them. This contributed towards Kirsten's growing alcohol problem, and the distance between her and Sandy caused her to almost have an affair with a magazine editor, Carter Buckley, although she left before anything happened. This came to a head when Kirsten's father, Caleb Nichol, died which caused Kirsten's drinking problem to run out of control, forcing the entire Cohen family to stage an intervention and put her in rehab.
[edit] Season Three
He has had many new problems with the underhanded nature of business in the real estate world in his new job as CEO of the Newport Group. This once again has caused a strain on his home life. Although the season three finale saw him making the decision to return to being a PD after revisiting his old office.
[edit] Season Four
In the fourth season, Sandy helps Ryan sort things out with Kevin Volchok who was responsible for the death of Marissa Cooper. He was also the one who talks Ryan into helping Taylor, who was in the middle of a divorce from her French husband, Henri-Michel.
In The Chrismukk-huh?, a special episode about what Newport would have been if Ryan never came into their lives, Sandy ends up being married to Julie Cooper-Nichol after his divorce from Kirsten, and is running for the position of Mayor. In an attempt to get out of the alternate universe, Ryan and Taylor try to set Sandy and Kirsten back together, something Ryan found he had to do on his own once Taylor slipped out of her coma. He ends up being sent to jail by Julie, but it was Sandy who bailed him out, just like in the real world. It was also Sandy who explains to Ryan about what went wrong and how everyone ended up that way in the alternate universe, saying that after Marissa's death in Tijuana, everyone got stuck.
In the twelfth episode of the fourth season, The Groundhog Day, Sandy helps in the preparation for Kirsten's 40th birthday. He finds a mailtruck, exactly the same model as the one that both of them lived in Berkeley, while his real present to her was two first-class tickets around the world. When he asks, "Not bad, huh?" to a stunned Kirsten, she announces that she can top that. They go and talk in private, and Kirsten announces to Sandy that she's pregnant, that they're having a baby.
The Case of the Franks reveals how Sandy and Kirsten met in Berkeley. In the same episode, as Kirsten is haunted by something she's done many years ago, she admits to Sandy that she has a secret, something that she has never told him before. Sandy learns that just before they met, Kirsten had an abortion, and the baby had been Jimmy Cooper's.
After an earthquake hits Newport Beach in The Shake Up, Sandy finds Kirsten on the ground, and tries to help her up, but had difficulties because of the falling objects around them. Instead, he tries to protect her by covering her.
In The Night Moves, both Sandy and Kirsten discover that they are going to have a daughter.
Six months later, he and Kirsten move to Berkeley; back to the house where they had Seth. It is in this house that Seth's sister, Sophie, starts her life. 5 Years later, Sandy becomes a law lecturer (possibly a professor) at UC Berkeley.
[edit] Family Tree
- Sophie Cohen (mother)
- Caleb Nichol (father-in-law)
- Hailey Nichol (sister-in-law)
- Kirsten Cohen (wife)
- Seth Cohen (son)
- Ryan Atwood (foster son)
- Sophie Rose Cohen (daughter)
| THE OC | ||
| EPISODES | CATEGORY | BROADCASTERS | SONGS | WEBSITE | ||
| Primary Characters |
Ryan Atwood | Kirsten Cohen | Sandy Cohen | Seth Cohen Jimmy Cooper | Julie Cooper | Kaitlin Cooper | Marissa Cooper Caleb Nichol | Summer Roberts | Taylor Townsend | Luke Ward |
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| Secondary Characters |
Dawn Atwood | Frank Atwood | Trey Atwood | Taryn Baker | Lance Baldwin Rebecca Bloom | Carter Buckley | Gordon Bullit | Sophie Cohen Theresa Diaz | D.J. | Holly Fischer | Lindsay Gardner | Johnny Harper Alex Kelly | Charlotte Morgan | Hailey Nichol | Neil Roberts | Anna Stern Zach Stevens | Veronica Townsend | Oliver Trask | Kevin Volchok |
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| Places | Newport Beach | Orange County | Chino | Berkeley | Providence | |
| Music | Mix 1 | Mix 2 | Mix 3 | Mix 4 | Mix 5 | Mix 6 | |
| Related | Atomic County | |
| Key Creators | Josh Schwartz | McG | Stephanie Savage | Allan Heinberg | |
