Rick Cooley

Rick Cooley is an LA-based actor and entrepreneur. In his late teens and early twenties he traveled the state fair circuit east of the Mississippi in the summer and fall as a professional weight, age and birth month guesser. He started doing print work and commercials in Cleveland and Chicago then moved to NYC in the height of the Studio 54 era. He worked with the legendary Wilhelmina, when she was running the agency doing domestic and international print work and commercials. Rick began acting in NYC with some of the best acting coaches in the business. Friday nights he tended bar at the infamous West Bank Café in the heart of Hell's Kitchen, when Hell's Kitchen was still Hell's Kitchen, where he met wonderful actors and artists from Tennessee Williams to the original cast of Saturday Night Live. Rick got his first break when he produced and was featured in a one act play written & directed by Michael Schulman. His great reviews led to a role on Love Boat which gave sent him to Los