Chris Cooper

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

92

Gender

Male

Birthday

1951-07-09 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

  • Law & Order

    Law & Order

  • Miami Vice

    Miami Vice

  • American Experience

    American Experience

  • The Equalizer

    The Equalizer

  • 11.22.63

    11.22.63

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • The Amazing Spider-Man 2

    The Amazing Spider-Man 2

  • Cars 3

    Cars 3

  • Money Train

    Money Train

  • New York, I Love You

    New York, I Love You

  • The Bourne Identity

    The Bourne Identity

  • Seabiscuit

    Seabiscuit

  • Adaptation.

    Adaptation.

  • Capote

    Capote

  • American Beauty

    American Beauty

  • Lone Star

    Lone Star

  • Fastball

    Fastball

  • The Bourne Supremacy

    The Bourne Supremacy

  • Walt Whitman

    Walt Whitman

  • Little Women

    Little Women

  • The Town

    The Town

  • Darrow

    Darrow

  • Me, Myself & Irene

    Me, Myself & Irene

  • Homecoming

    Homecoming

  • Matewan

    Matewan

  • The Patriot

    The Patriot

  • Alone

    Alone

  • Syriana

    Syriana

  • The History of Sound

    The History of Sound

  • Lonesome Dove

    Lonesome Dove

  • The Company Men

    The Company Men

  • Amigo

    Amigo

  • A Time to Kill

    A Time to Kill

  • One More Mountain

    One More Mountain

  • Intelligent Lives

    Intelligent Lives

  • Extreme Movie

    Extreme Movie

  • Married Life

    Married Life

  • Return to Lonesome Dove

    Return to Lonesome Dove

  • To the Moon, Alice

    To the Moon, Alice

  • Live by Night

    Live by Night

  • A Little Piece of Sunshine

    A Little Piece of Sunshine

  • Jarhead

    Jarhead

  • Silver City

    Silver City

  • American Beauty: Look Closer...

    American Beauty: Look Closer...

  • Demolition

    Demolition

  • The Company You Keep

    The Company You Keep

  • Remember Me

    Remember Me

  • Boys

    Boys

  • The Muppets

    The Muppets

  • Pharaoh's Army

    Pharaoh's Army

  • The Kingdom

    The Kingdom

  • Henrietta Bulkowski

    Henrietta Bulkowski

  • Where the Wild Things Are

    Where the Wild Things Are

  • October Sky

    October Sky

  • Everything's Going to Be Great

    Everything's Going to Be Great

  • This Boy's Life

    This Boy's Life

  • Breast Men

    Breast Men

  • Breach

    Breach

  • Thousand Pieces of Gold

    Thousand Pieces of Gold

  • Boston Strangler

    Boston Strangler

  • Interstate 60

    Interstate 60

  • A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

    A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

  • The Horse Whisperer

    The Horse Whisperer

  • August: Osage County

    August: Osage County

  • Great Expectations

    Great Expectations

  • Irresistible

    Irresistible

  • Guilty by Suspicion

    Guilty by Suspicion

  • The Tempest

    The Tempest

  • City of Hope

    City of Hope

  • Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

    Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

  • It Takes a Lunatic

    It Takes a Lunatic

  • My House in Umbria

    My House in Umbria

  • The 24 Hour Woman

    The 24 Hour Woman

  • With/In Volume 2

    With/In Volume 2

  • Coming Through the Rye

    Coming Through the Rye

  • With/In Volume 2

    With/In Volume 2

  • Teen Choice Awards

    Teen Choice Awards

  • Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

    Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

  • In Broad Daylight

    In Broad Daylight

  • Bed of Lies

    Bed of Lies

  • Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

    Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

  • The Deliverance of Elaine

    The Deliverance of Elaine

  • 'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend

    'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend

  • Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life

    Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life

  • Them That Work

    Them That Work

  • Making Capote: Concept to Script

    Making Capote: Concept to Script

  • Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend

    Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend

  • The Making of 'Seabiscuit'

    The Making of 'Seabiscuit'

  • The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  • Bad Timing

    Bad Timing

  • Light on Broken Glass

    Light on Broken Glass

  • Primo Levi's Journey

    Primo Levi's Journey