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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 9, 1951
Place of Birth:
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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Chris Cooper
Biography
Christopher Walton Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an American actor. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including American Beauty (1999), October Sky (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), Seabiscuit (2003), Capote (2005), Syriana (2005), The Kingdom (2007), Where the Wild Things Are (2009), The Town (2010), The Muppets (2011), Cars 3 (2017), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), and Little Women (2019). He also portrayed Sheriff July Johnson in the acclaimed miniseries Lonesome Dove, which became one of the most successful Westerns in history.
Cooper won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as John Laroche in the 2002 film Adaptation. He played a lead role in the historical and political thriller Breach (2007), playing FBI agent and traitor Robert Hanssen. He played Daniel Sloan in the 2012 political thriller The Company You Keep, and supervillain Norman Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014). He also portrayed Al Templeton on the 2016 Hulu miniseries 11.22.63.
He is a frequent collaborator with director John Sayles, including Matewan (1987), City of Hope (1991), Lone Star (1996), Silver City (2004) and Amigo (2010).
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | The History of Sound | Older Lionel |
| 2025 | Everything's Going to Be Great | Walter |
| 2023 | Boston Strangler | Jack Maclaine |
| 2022 | With/In Volume 2 | |
| 2021 | With/In Volume 2 | (segment "Nuts") |
| 2020 | Irresistible | Jack Hastings |
| 2019 | Little Women | Mr. Laurence |
| 2019 | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Jerry Vogel |
| 2019 | Them That Work | Self |
| 2019 | It Takes a Lunatic | Self |
| 2019 | Henrietta Bulkowski | Danny Wilcox |
| 2018 | Intelligent Lives | Self |
| 2017 | Cars 3 | Smokey (voice) |
| 2016 | Demolition | Phil Eastwood |
| 2016 | Coming Through the Rye | J.D. Salinger |
| 2016 | Live by Night | Chief Irving Figgis |
| 2016 | Fastball | Clifford Blankenship (voice) |
| 2014 | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Norman Osborn (uncredited) |
| 2013 | August: Osage County | Charlie Aiken |
| 2013 | Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy | Narrator (voice) |
| 2012 | The Company You Keep | Daniel Sloan |
| 2012 | Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God | Gary (voice) |
| 2011 | Amigo | Col. Hardacre |
| 2011 | The Muppets | Tex Richman |
| 2010 | The Town | Stephen MacRay |
| 2010 | Remember Me | Neil Craig |
| 2010 | The Tempest | Antonio |
| 2010 | The Company Men | Phil Woodward |
| 2010 | Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize | Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Where the Wild Things Are | Douglas (voice) |
| 2009 | The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | Himself (Narrator) |
| 2008 | Married Life | Harry Allen |
| 2008 | New York, I Love You | Alex |
| 2008 | Extreme Movie | FBI Agent Mike (uncredited) |
| 2008 | Walt Whitman | Walt Whitman (voice) |
| 2007 | Breach | Robert Hanssen |
| 2007 | The Kingdom | Grant Sykes |
| 2006 | Primo Levi's Journey | Narrator (voice) (U.S. version) |
| 2006 | Making Capote: Concept to Script | Self |
| 2005 | Jarhead | Lt. Col. Kazinski |
| 2005 | Syriana | Jimmy Pope |
| 2005 | Capote | Alvin Dewey |
| 2004 | Silver City | Dickie Pilager |
| 2004 | The Bourne Supremacy | Alexander Conklin |
| 2003 | Seabiscuit | Tom Smith |
| 2003 | My House in Umbria | Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith |
| 2002 | The Bourne Identity | Alexander Conklin |
| 2002 | Adaptation. | John Laroche |
| 2002 | Interstate 60 | Bob Cody |
| 2000 | Me, Myself & Irene | Lieutenant Gerke |
| 2000 | The Patriot | Col. Harry Burwell |
| 2000 | American Beauty: Look Closer... | Self |
| 1999 | American Beauty | Colonel Fitts |
| 1999 | October Sky | John Hickam |
| 1998 | The Horse Whisperer | Frank Booker |
| 1998 | Great Expectations | Joe |
| 1997 | Breast Men | Dr. William Larson |
| 1997 | Alone | Gus Jr. |
| 1996 | A Time to Kill | Dwayne Looney |
| 1996 | Lone Star | Sam Deeds |
| 1996 | Boys | Mr. John Baker |
| 1996 | The Deliverance of Elaine | Charlie Skyler |
| 1995 | Pharaoh's Army | Captain John Hull Abston |
| 1995 | Money Train | Torch |
| 1994 | One More Mountain | Jack Reed |
| 1993 | This Boy's Life | Roy |
| 1992 | Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life | Anthony Blessing |
| 1992 | Bed of Lies | Price Daniel, Jr. |
| 1991 | City of Hope | Riggs |
| 1991 | Thousand Pieces of Gold | Charlie |
| 1991 | In Broad Daylight | Jack Wilson |
| 1991 | Guilty by Suspicion | Larry Nolan |
| 1991 | To the Moon, Alice | Frank Wiliker |
| 1991 | Darrow | Eugene Debs |
| 1990 | A Little Piece of Sunshine | Ernie Favaro |
| 1987 | Matewan | Joe Kenehan |
| 1982 | Bad Timing | |
| Light on Broken Glass | Jay |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Homecoming | Leonard Geist |
| 2016 | 11.22.63 | Al Templeton |
| 1999 | Teen Choice Awards | Self - Nominee |
| 1993 | Return to Lonesome Dove | July Johnson |
| 1990 | Law & Order | Defense Attorney Roy Payne |
| 1989 | Lonesome Dove | July Johnson |
| 1988 | American Experience | Narrator (voice) |
| 1985 | The Equalizer | Michael |
| 1984 | Miami Vice | Jimmy Yagovitch |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |