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Debra Lord Cooke

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  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Debra Lord Cooke
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Debra Lord Cooke began her career professionally during her college years with a series of nine commercials for a regional dairy company. After receiving a full honors scholarship from the University of Maine at Orono to study her junior year in Canterbury, England, Debra interned at The Marlowe Theatre, studied theater through the British Studies Centre (AUI), and Television & Film Production at Christ Church College.

Debra branched into casting working with inde films, commercials, and print. Major films also used her services for location casting including The Man Without a Face (1993), In the Bedroom (2001), and Empire Falls (2005). She has also worked as a First Assistant Director on projects such as the feature film shot in Maine and in Florida, Baby It's Cold Outside (2004). Debra was a founding member of The Maine Film & Television Association, serving as Treasurer for 3 years, and held a Governor appointed position on the Maine Film Commission Board from 2002, serving as chair for some years.

Debra has since returned to her passion of acting (SAG/AFTRA). Her credits include the HBO Pilot Spring/Fall (2011) staring Téa Leoni and Hope Davis, as well as Guiding Light (1952), The Onion (2007), and feature films, Blood, Sweat, & Brando (2008), A Stranger Within (2003), and Academy Award winner, Ernest Thompson's feature, Time and Charges (2013). Theater credits include "Light Up The Sky", "Three Viewings", "Punch And Judy", "BecauseHeCan", as well as sketch and improv shows.

Debra has over a decade of experience as an on-camera acting coach through her casting company as well as The Junior Theatre Group, a community outreach program, at The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, England, The Maine Film Commission, and at schools and colleges as a guest at SMTVI, the University of Maine at Orono, and several high schools. Debra has also worked as an acting instructor at The John Pallotta Studios in New York City.
BornMay 2, 1960
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Known for

Café Society (2016)
Café Society
6.6
  • Suzy Bancroft(as Debra Cooke)
  • 2016
Debra Lord Cooke, Elissa Piszel, and Jules Hartley in In the Moon's Shadow (2019)
In the Moon's Shadow
7.1
  • Lisa
  • 2019
Sissy Spacek, Marisa Tomei, Nick Stahl, and Tom Wilkinson in In the Bedroom (2001)
In the Bedroom
7.4
  • Casting Department(as Dee Cooke)
  • 2001
Mel Gibson and Nick Stahl in The Man Without a Face (1993)
The Man Without a Face
6.7
  • Casting Department(as Dee Cooke)
  • 1993

Credits

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Actress

  • Never Away
    • (as Debra Cooke)
    • Completed
  • Analogue
    • (as Dee Cooke)
    • Completed
  • Lexi Johnson and Audrey Grace Marshall in The Girl Who Got Away (2021)
    The Girl Who Got Away
  • Sometime Other Than Now (2021)
    Sometime Other Than Now
    • (as Debra Lorde Cooke)
  • Debra Lord Cooke, Elissa Piszel, and Jules Hartley in In the Moon's Shadow (2019)
    In the Moon's Shadow
  • 79 Parts: Director's Cut (2019)
    79 Parts: Director's Cut
  • Framing John DeLorean (2019)
    Framing John DeLorean
  • Alicia Witt and Colin Ferguson in Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane (2018)
    Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane
  • Debra Lord Cooke and Richard Vernon in Cake: A Love Story (2017)
    Cake: A Love Story
  • Ellie's Perk (2017)
    Ellie's Perk
  • 79 Parts (2016)
    79 Parts
  • Café Society (2016)
    Café Society
    • (as Debra Cooke)
  • Treat Williams in The Congressman (2016)
    The Congressman
  • The Union (2014)
    The Union
    • (as Debra Lord-Cooke)
  • Time and Charges (2013)
    Time and Charges
    • (as Dee Cooke)
  • Forgive and Forget
    • (as Debra Cooke)
  • Alec Baldwin and Meryl Streep in It's Complicated (2009)
    It's Complicated
    • (uncredited)

Casting Department

  • Paul Newman, Helen Hunt, Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Dennis Farina, Aidan Quinn, and Joanne Woodward in Empire Falls (2005)
    Empire Falls
    • (as Dee Cooke)
  • Wake (2003)
    Wake
    • (as Dee Cook)
  • Liberty, Maine (2001)
    Liberty, Maine
    • (as Dee Cooke)
  • Haunted History (1998)
    Haunted History
    • (as Dee Cooke)
  • Sissy Spacek, Marisa Tomei, Nick Stahl, and Tom Wilkinson in In the Bedroom (2001)
    In the Bedroom
    • (as Dee Cooke)
  • Follow Me Outside (2000)
    Follow Me Outside
    • (as Dee Cooke)
  • Jamie Harrold and Moira Kelly in Henry Hill (1999)
    Henry Hill
    • (as Dee Cooke)
  • Storm of the Century (1999)
    Storm of the Century
    • (as Dee Cooke)
  • Dark Harbor (1998)
    Dark Harbor
    • (as Dee Cooke)
  • The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
    The Myth of Fingerprints
    • (as Dee Cooke)
  • Mel Gibson and Nick Stahl in The Man Without a Face (1993)
    The Man Without a Face
    • (as Dee Cooke)

Second Unit or Assistant Director

  • Baby It's Cold Outside
    • (as Dee Cooke)
  • Real Men
    • (as Dee Cooke)
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In The Moon's Shadow - Role of Lisa
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In The Moon's Shadow - Role of Lisa
The Girl Who Got Away Clip
Demo Reel 1:00
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Demo Reel 1:00
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In The Moon's Shadow Clips 2
Demo Reel 1:01
In The Moon's Shadow Clips 2
Analogue - Feature Film - Clips 2015
Demo Reel 3:23
Analogue - Feature Film - Clips 2015
3 Minute Reel
Demo Reel 2:58
3 Minute Reel

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    • May 2, 1960
    • Belgrade, Maine, USA
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