- Richard was a member of the 4-time Ivy League Champion Pennsylvania Quakers Football teams from 1983-1986.
- Rick was All-State in two sports at G.W. Hewlett High School on Long Island: Football and Baseball.
- Rick has appeared in over 20 national TV commercials since 1987 including Miller Beer, Budweiser, Milky Way, Hess Oil, First Federal Bank, Aleeve and was the only actor to ever appear in a Remington Shavers commercial with the owner of the company, Victor Kiam.
- Rick's brother David Scott Cohen was the actor who appeared in the Lectric Shave commercial with Carmen Electra.
- Son Jacob in 1995 and daughter Alexandra in 1997 with actress Kimberly Carraway. Both were delivered at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, California.
- As a child and teenager, Rick attended Camp Powhatan in Oxford, Maine from 1973-1983. Other Hollywood notables who attended that camp were producers Jon Landau (Titanic), Kenny Solms (The Carol Burnett Show) and director Jonathan Levine (50/50).
- Rick grew up in the prestigious "Five Towns" area of Long Island, which produced other Hollywood notables such as actor/director Ed Burns (The Brothers McMullen) and "Entourage" creators Doug Ellin and Rob Weiss.
- Rick was one of four directors to play on the 1982-1986 University of Pennsylvania Ivy League championship football teams. The others were Gavin O'Connor (Miracle, Warrior), Tim Chambers (The Mighty Macs) and Bo Zenga (Scary Movie, Soul Plane.).
- Rick's father Arnold was the personal accountant to fashion designer Ralph Lauren.
- His ex-sister-in-law was actress Jodi Marks, the lead spokesperson on HGTV's "Fix-It-Up.".
- One of Rick's greatest personal accomplishments was Sky Jumping off the 108 story Stratosphere Hotel in Las Vegas.
- Rick was a unanimous first-ballot selection for the National Amateur Baseball Association Hall of Fame. He was inducted in 2016. To date, Rick has won 6 national championships as both a player and a manager of the National Network amateur baseball team. His team has won in the age brackets of 35+, 45+ and 50+. He is in the top ten for his career in the categories of hits, batting average, on-base percentage, runs scored and stolen bases.
- Rick's son, Jacob Cohen, works for the Florida Panthers of NHL.
Rick is a certified yoga instructor in Vinyasa Krama. - Rick's daughter Lexie walked the runway for Ralph Lauren and was the face of the brand Living Proof in 2018.
- Rick's daughter Lexie started the political podcast on Spotify, "We The Tweeters." She received a scholarship to Emory Law school in 2021.
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