Chris Cooper

American actor (1951-)

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51 languages
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Age
75
Born 1951
Known for
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014

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Updated 2026-06-09

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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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…

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