---
name: "Joe Cobden"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joe-cobden"
fi1m_id: "joe-cobden"
imdb_id: "nm0167859"
tmdb_id: 51389
wikidata_id: "Q62390486"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "6 October 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-24T19:58:02.068402+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Joe Cobden

## Identity

Joe Cobden

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joe-cobden
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joe-cobden
- **IMDb ID:** nm0167859
- **TMDB ID:** 51389
- **Wikidata ID:** Q62390486
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Cobden, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62390486, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167859/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/51389

Actor. Born 6 October 1978 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 6 October 1978, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- **Active:** 2004–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 74 (1), 2010s 86 (1), 2020s 63 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 74 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Fantasy 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $429m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Cobden, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62390486, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167859/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/51389

## Coming up

- *Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend* (2026-11-11), as Ray Wardell

## Biography

Joe Cobden is a Canadian actor and filmmaker. Born on 7 October 1978 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he began performing as a child street vaudevillian before enrolling in 1996 at Concordia University’s Theatre Performance Programme in Montreal.

He is known for supporting roles in films including *The Day After Tomorrow* (2004), *Source Code* (2011), *The Vow* (2012), *Arrival* (2016) and *X-Men: Apocalypse* (2016). Cobden appears as Bob Fortier in the 2026 film *The Stunt Driver*. He has received Gemini Award and Canadian Screen Award nominations, and has directed shorts that have premiered at festivals such as TIFF and SXSW.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *The Stunt Driver* (2026), Fi1m 66, Actor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-stunt-driver.md)
- *Beau Is Afraid* (2023), Fi1m 60, as News Correspondent (Brian Galloway) — [page](https://film.one/film/beau-is-afraid.md)
- *Arrival* (2016), Fi1m 86, as Cryptographer — [page](https://film.one/film/arrival.md)
- *The Aviator* (2004), Fi1m 74, as Another Guest #1 — [page](https://film.one/film/the-aviator.md)

## Complete filmography (55)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend* (2026), as Ray Wardell
- *The Stunt Driver* (2026), Actor — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/the-stunt-driver.md)
- *Beau Is Afraid* (2023), as News Correspondent (Brian Galloway) — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/beau-is-afraid.md)
- *Wong & Winchester* (2023), series, as Gary Johnson
- *Three Pines* (2022), series, as Hayden Smith
- *The United States vs. Billie Holiday* (2021), as George Jessel
- *Transplant* (2020), series, as Alex
- *On the Basis of Sex* (2018), as Jim
- *Sleeper* (2018), as Arthur Stern
- *Allure* (2018), as Benjamin
- *All Shook Up* (2017), Actor
- *The Sinner* (2017), series, as Chief Lou Raskin
- *Radius* (2017), as Sheriff Laredo / TV Reporter
- *Normalize* (2017), as Tim
- *Arrival* (2016), as Cryptographer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/arrival.md)
- *Mean Dreams* (2016), as Elbert
- *It's Not What You Know* (2016), as Party Goer
- *Cycles* (2016), Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
- *X-Men: Apocalypse* (2016), as Air Force Official
- *Blindspot* (2015), series, as Jeffrey Kantor
- *Pawn Sacrifice* (2015), as Motel Clerk
- *Born to Be Blue* (2015), as Actor Dick
- *The Informant* (2013), as Agent Carlyle
- *Beneath the Harvest Sky* (2013), as Mr. Soucy
- *Vive La Canadienne* (2013), Director
- *The Vow* (2012), as Jim
- *I Heart Doomsday* (2011), as Amnesia expert
- *Suits* (2011), series, as Jeremy Stiller
- *Source Code* (2011), as Lab Technician
- *Devil* (2010), as Dwight
- *Living in Your Car* (2010), series, Actor
- *Peepers* (2010), as Steve Sherman
- *Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures* (2010), series, as Zoltan
- *Republic of Doyle* (2010), series, as Bruce Michaels
- *How to Rid Your Lover of a Negative Emotion Caused by You!* (2010), as Dennis
- *Modern Family* (2009), series, as Tourist — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/modern-family.md)
- *The American Trap* (2008), as Jeffrey Cohen
- *Blindness* (2008), as Policeman
- *I'm Not There* (2007), as Sonny
- *Angela's Eyes* (2006), series, as Dozer
- *Human Trafficking* (2005), series, as Richard Sapperstein
- *The Aviator* (2004), as Another Guest #1 — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-aviator.md)
- *The Day After Tomorrow* (2004), as Zack — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/the-day-after-tomorrow.md)
- *Hollywood North* (2004), as Howard Atkins
- *This Is Wonderland* (2004), series, as Mr. Joseph
- *Jericho Mansions* (2003), as Vikes
- *Confessions of a Dangerous Mind* (2002), as Unknown Comic
- *Abandon* (2002), as Student on Cell Phone
- *Gleason* (2002), as Coleman Jacoby
- *Swindle* (2002), as Junior
- *Summer* (2002), as Miller
- *Suddenly Naked* (2001), as Patrick McKeating
- *The Hound of the Baskervilles* (2000), as Perkins
- *Live Through This* (2000), series, Actor
- *Nuremberg* (2000), series, as Soldier

## Gallery

- ![Joe Cobden](https://film.one/media/person/295457/gallery-4d336c6556de.jpg) Joe Cobden — Marlene Landu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Joe_Cobden_02_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Joe Cobden](https://film.one/media/person/295457/gallery-514442c31b24.jpg) Joe Cobden — Image via TMDB

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