# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-cooper
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:58:56.421Z

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description: "He's the character actor who disappears so completely into roles that audiences trust him before they recognize him — which is why casting directors hand him everyone from martyred trainers to comic-book billionaires to the FBI's most damaging traitor."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Christopher Walton Cooper was born July 9, 1951, and started as a stage actor before breaking through on television as Sheriff July Johnson in the Western miniseries Lonesome Dove in 1989. He became a fixture in major studio films through the late '90s and 2000s — A Time to Kill, October Sky, American Beauty, The Bourne Identity, Seabiscuit — and won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for Adaptation. He's worked steadily across genres since: the historical thriller Breach as FBI traitor Robert Hanssen, Norman Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, a puppeteer-hating oil baron in The Muppets, and Al Templeton in Hulu's 11.22.63. A frequent collaborator with director John Sayles across five films starting with Matewan in 1987, Cooper earned a 2017 Tony nomination for A Doll's House, Part 2, closing the loop back to the stage work that started it all.