Diana Cochran

Diana Reneé Cochran was born November 15th, 1992 in Portland, Oregon as the third of six children of Kevin Cochran, a pilot from the United States Airforce, and Catherine (Royer) Cochran, who was a music teacher and later became a cardiac nurse. Diana's Father is mostly of Irish and German decent while her mother Catherine is of French and Native American Cherokee decent. When she was two Diana's family moved to a small country town Elmira, Oregon and there she began school at four years old. Growing up she played soccer, basketball, swim team, track and field, and was cheer-leading and dance team captain. Her mother was Valid Victorian and achieved her masters in music, and raised Diana and her siblings playing the piano, violin and singing. Her father was a contender for the Judo Olympics and taught Diana and her siblings self-defense while also putting them through Tae Kwon Doe. Diana also competed in Tae Kwon Doe at a very young age and continued her martial arts training through the Inosanto Academy for Martial Arts at the age of twenty three. Diana got her first experience in acting at four years old in a school play where she played a carnation flower. Since then she starred in church Christmas plays, school shows, college theater, and in 2011 she began working in professional theater at The Shedd Institute of Arts. During a summer of college she landed her first role in an Independent full-length feature film as Smitty in the Bigfoot Chronicles. Diana graduated from the University of Oregon in 2014 with a Bachelor's Degree in Digital Arts. She moved to Los Angeles in the summer of 2016 and continues to work in pilots, short films, and full-length feature films.