CooperTalk

Steve Cooper talk with actor/artist Eric Lutes. Eric is best known known for his roles as Del Cassidy on Caroline in the City, Jerry Stanton in Switching Goals and Jake Carlson on So Little Time, both starring Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen. His career started with several commercial spots. He then moved to New York and appeared in many off-Broadway productions before finally making the move to...

Steve Cooper talks with actress Kirsten Vangsness. Kirsten is best known as the bespectacled-brainiac-tech-kitten Penelope Garcia on the CBS hit drama Criminal Minds (and its spin-off Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior). She has had a long and varied career prior to joining the cast of the hit CBS series. Stage appearances include Perfuct, The Book of Liz and a number of plays at Hollywood's Theatre...

Steve Cooper talks with actor/writer/director Mark Polish. Mark broke onto the independent filmmaking scene at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999 with the premiere of his first film Twin Falls Idaho, an atmospheric and heartfelt tale of conjoined twins, which he co-wrote and starred in with his identical twin brother Michael Polish. His second film, Jackpot, received the John Cassavetes Best Indep...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Amanda Wyss. Amanda was discovered by an agent as a teen while starring in the play, The Bad Seed at a local LA theatre and then went on to work in many commercials and landed her first television role, recurring on Universal's When the Whistle Blows as Dolph Sweet's daughter. Some of her most memorable film performances were in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, A Nightma...

Steve Cooper talks with comic/actor/writer Lou DiMaggio. Lou began his career as a comic in NYC in the boom 80’s. After moving to Los Angeles he appeared in many national commercials, TV shows and films. He’s probably best know for his role as a restaurant investor alongside Ted Danson and Michael York in Curb Your Enthusiasm. He also won an Emmy for writing on Win Ben Stein’s Money. He stopped do...

Steve Cooper talks with comic/actor Gene Pompa. Gene’s television credits include numerous appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and several appearances on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS. Other credits include Comedy Central, The Arsenio Hall Show, HBO, The Latino Laugh Festival on Showtime, BET, Scrubs and In Living Color. He has appeared in two Happy Madison films Just Go W...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Charley Koontz. Charley is best known for his work as Fat/Real Neil in Community and currently starring as FBI agent Daniel Krumitz on CBS' hit television series, CSI:CYBER. His additional television credits include Perfect Couples, Awake and a recurring role in Royal Pains. His first film, Rubber, directed by Quentin Dupieux, premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festiva...

Steve Cooper talks with actor/comic Erica Rhodes. Erica Rhodes started her entertainment career by voicing the conscience of legendary humorist and writer, Garrison Keillor on NPR's A Prairie Home Companion and has worked on that show ever since. In 2012, she also became a writer for the show when it toured Houston, NYC and San Francisco. She starred in the cult horror film Plague Town and recentl...

Steve Cooper talks with drummer Kenny Aronoff. Kenny is one of the world's most influential and in-demand drummers. The list of artists he's worked with reads like a who's who of the music industry, and includes John Mellencamp, The Smashing Pumpkins, Bob Seger, Melissa Etheridge, Jon Bon Jovi, Elton John, Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart, Alanis Morissette, The Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Willie Nelson...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Chris Diamantopoulos. Chris is best known for his roles on the Showtime sitcom Episodes opposite Matt LeBlanc, the hit comedy Silicon Valley, Netflix's Arrested Development and as Moe in the feature film The Three Stooges. In addition he has lent his voice talents to popular shows including Family Guy, American Dad and six-time Emmy Award-winning show, Mickey Mouse. O...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Catherine Dent. Catherine is best known for the role of Danielle "Danny" Sofer in the FX series The Shield. She has starred in film and in television as of the early 1990's. Her first feature film was the 1994 movie Nobody's Fool. On television she played Janice Talbert in One Life to Live, and well has made many guest appearances on several TV shows, such as on The P...

Steve Cooper talks with TV/Film writers Robb Cullen and Scott Hodges. Robb has created the TV series Lucky, Gary the Rat, Heist, Back in the Game and Mr. Robinson, written for the show Las Vegas and wrote the movie Cop Out all with his brother and they recently co-directed their latest screenplay called Going Under. Scott parlayed a successful career as a producer for talk radio into a TV writing...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Jodi Lyn O'Keefe. Jodi Lyn portrayed Cassidy Bridges on Nash Bridges. She is also known for her role on Prison Break as Gretchen Morgan, a.k.a. Susan B. Anthony and as Josette "Jo" Laughlin in The Vampire Diaries. She made her big screen debut in 1998 in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later and later starred in such films as The Crow: Salvation, Whatever It Takes and Devil I...

Steve Cooper talks with comic/host Jimmy Pardo. Jimmy is a seasoned veteran of comedy clubs and late night television and has appeared on such shows as The Tonight Show, Conan, The Late Late Show and his own half hour special on Comedy Central. Utilizing his trademark crowd work skills, he spent 6 years as Conan O'Brien's opening act at Conan tapings and has also appeared on Conan as a panel guest...

Steve Cooper talks with actor/radio personality/voice actor Ralph Garman. Ralph best known as the host of The Joe Schmo Show for three seasons, for his voice work in Family Guy and as the entertainment reporter and impressionist for the Kevin and Bean morning show on Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM. He was hired to work on the Kevin and Bean show through Jimmy Kimmel (who at the time was working...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Patrick Fischler. Patrick began building up his résumé in the late 90s, making appearances on TV shows like Sister, Sister and Nash Bridges. His intense looks and malleable demeanor soon made him a familiar face, and in 2001 he was cast in the David Lynch film Mulholland Drive. By the late 2000s, Fischler was landing recurring roles on major primetime series, playing...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Stephanie Erb. Stephanie's first break in television was a guest star on the cult favorite, Star Trek: The Next Generation. She owes her film debut to Peter Weir, who cast her in Fearless with Jeff Bridges and Isabella Rossellini. She has had recurring roles on Ray Donovan, The Young and the Restless, True Blood, Weeds, 24, Freaks and Geeks and The Fosters to name a f...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Robert Beltran. Robert is best known for his role of Commander Chakotay which he played for 7 seasons on Star Trek: Voyager. He got his acting start in the movie Zoot Suit and since then has been seen in Eating Raoul, Lone Wolf McQuade, Night of the Comet, Bugsy and Nixon to name a few. His TV credits include co-starring in Models Inc., recurring in Big Love and guest...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Kathe Mazur. Kathe is best known for her role as Deputy DA Hobbs, formerly on The Closer and now appearing in The Closer's spin-off series: Major Crimes. She has also been a series regular on Fox’s Misery Loves Company and has appeared on countless other shows including Grey’s Anatomy, Brothers and Sisters, Alias, Monk , Private Practice, ER, Frasier, Close to Home, J...

Steve Cooper talks with comic Carl LaBove. Carl is an original founding member of "The Outlaws of Comedy", His powerful approach to stand up comedy has been filling theaters and clubs for over 30 years. At age nineteen he discovered stand up comedy with the man who would become his best friend, Sam Kinison. Together the two founded a Rock & Roll Comedy concept that would earn Billboard Magazines "...

Steve Cooper talks with writer/director/comic Mike Young. Mike has written and directed the movies A Stand Up Guy and My Man is a Loser. He is the creator and host of the “Young American Comedy Tour,” an international tour showcasing stand-up comedians. After performing at the Montreal Comedy Festival, Mike developed sitcoms with Warner Bros. and ABC. As a writer, Young has written a one-hour for...

Steve Cooper talks with writer Ivor Davis. Ivor first came to America in the early sixties and was appointed West Coast correspondent for the 4-million-a-day circulation London Daily Express in l963. His first big assignment came the following year: to hang out, travel with and get to know the four members of a new pop group from Liverpool who were tearing up the world with their music: the Beatle...

Steve Cooper talks with writer/host Phil Rosenthal. Phil is best known for being creator, writer and executive producer for Everybody Loves Raymond which he won 2 Emmys for. He also has written for the shows such as Coach, Baby Talk and The Man in the Family. He recently directed the documentary Exporting Raymond and is the host of the PBS series about food and travel titled I'll Have What Phil's...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Vanessa Cloke. Vanessa recently appeared in the Oscar nominated movie The Big Short. She has also guest starred on various TV series such as Treme, NCIS: New Orleans, Satisfaction, Wild Card, The Walking Dead, Powers and American Horror Story and was a series regular on USA's Common Law and can be seen in the soon to be released horror movie Mind Puppets. Sponsored by...

Steve Cooper talks with comic/actor Brian Scolaro. Brian is most known for his appearances on Conan, his half hour Comedy Central special Comedy Central Presents: Brian Scolaro, as Doug on Sullivan and Son, and as Stuart on FOX’s Stacked. He has had recurring roles on Kroll Show, Life and Times of Tim, Wizards of Waverly Place and has had guest roles on such shows as Bones, Dexter, Mad Men, Grey's...