Actor Bern Cohen Set for Nicki Minaj's New Series NICKI & JON GLASER LOVES GEAR

The multi-talented Bern Cohen recently shot roles on two TV pilots that are BECOMING series. The first was NICKI, Nicki Minaj 's new series on ABC Family Channel (now ABC FreeForm Channel) that picked up 8 shows of this new series about her childhood. Bern plays Floyd, a family-friend, a pawnbroker who cares about young Nicki and her family.

Bern is also Jon Glaser's Dad in Glaser's recent pilot, JON GLASER LOVES GEAR, a series that uses Glaser's love of gear to set up each OUTRAGEOUS episode. This series is bound for truTV which picked up the pilot and five episodes.

Since going to Sundance in 2010 with his Supporting role in the NYC-based crime drama, HOLY ROLLERS, Cohen has played major roles and scenes with some of Hollywood's biggest names, including: Lena Olin in DEVIL YOU KNOW, Sean Penn in THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, Richard Gere and Steve Buscemi in OPPENHEIMER STRATEGIES, Henry Ian Cusick in FRANK VS. GOD, and Isaiah Washington and Viveca A. FOX in DOCTOR BELLO, the latter of which made Cohen a star in AFRICA where DOCTOR BELLO was a huge hit.

During the same recent six years, Cohen also had roles in twenty other films that did not have the advantage of a star name. These included starring roles in DEATH OF A POP STAR and SHLOMO PUSSYCAT, both of which won festival awards. Most recently, Cohen shot roles in the Kevin Smith biopic, SHOOTING CLERKS, as well as SUPER DARK TIMES, a horror film shot in NY's Hudson Valley starring Owen Campbell.

On stage, Cohen starred in 2014's EVERY DAY A VISITOR at NY's Clurman Theater. The prior season, he starred in ABBIE, a one-man show about Sixties radical, Abbie Hoffman, at NY's West End Theater. His next project is a shoot on Martha's Vineyard in June, an indie film with a focus on Alzheimer's.

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