Chris Cooper
American actor (1951-) · United States · Actors
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Something wrong?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.
A life in dates
The History of SoundFilm, Older Lionel2020
IrresistibleFilm, Jack Hastings2018
HomecomingSeries, Leonard Geist2017
Cars 3Film, Smokey (voice)2016
11.22.63Series, Al Templeton2014
The Amazing Spider-Man 2Film, Norman Osborn (uncredited)2013
August: Osage CountyFilm, Charlie Aiken2011
The MuppetsFilm, Tex Richman2009
Where the Wild Things AreFilm, Douglas (voice)2007
BreachFilm, Robert Hanssen2004
The Bourne SupremacyFilm, Alexander Conklin (uncredited)2003Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorAwardGolden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion PictureAward2002
Adaptation.Film, John Laroche2000
Me, Myself & IreneFilm, Lieutenant Gerke1999
Teen Choice AwardsSeries1998
Great ExpectationsFilm, Joe1995
Money TrainFilm, Torch1993
Return to Lonesome DoveSeries, July Johnson1991
Guilty by SuspicionFilm, Larry Nolan1990
Law & OrderSeries, Defense Attorney Roy Payne1988
American ExperienceSeries, Narrator (voice)1985
The EqualizerSeries, Michael1984
Miami ViceSeries, Jimmy Yagovitch1982
American PlayhouseSeries, Louis Halladay1953
The OscarsSeries1951Born9 July 1951Also in Deutsch
Photos 2
Filmography 40
TSThe History of Sound
BSBoston StranglerIRIrresistible
LWLittle Women
ANA Beautiful Day in the NeighborhoodCACars 3
LNLive by Night
DEDemolitionTMThe Amazing Spider-Man 2ACAugust: Osage County
TKThe Company You KeepTMThe Muppets
TTThe Town
RMRemember Me
TMThe Company MenWAWhere the Wild Things Are
NYNew York, I Love You
EMExtreme Movie
MLMarried Life
TKThe KingdomBRBreach
JAJarhead
SYSyriana
CACapoteTSThe Bourne Supremacy
SESeabiscuit
TIThe Bourne IdentityADAdaptation.
INInterstate 60MIMe, Myself & Irene
TPThe Patriot
ABAmerican Beauty
OSOctober Sky
TWThe Horse WhispererGEGreat Expectations
AKA Time to Kill
LSLone StarMTMoney Train
TLThis Boy's LifeGSGuilty by Suspicion98 credits on file
Television 11
HOHomecoming11.22.63TATeen Choice AwardsRDReturn to Lonesome DoveLOLaw & Order
LDLonesome DoveAEAmerican ExperienceTEThe EqualizerMVMiami ViceAPAmerican PlayhouseTOThe OscarsAwards
In their orbit
Spouse: Marianne Leone CooperAbout this person
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.
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