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Chris Cooper
Chris Cooper

Chris Cooper

ActingBorn July 9, 1951 (age 74)Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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.

Filmography

2025
The History of Sound

as Older Lionel

Movie
2023
Boston Strangler

as Jack Maclaine

Movie
2021
With/In Volume 2

as (segment "Nuts")

Movie
2020
Irresistible

as Jack Hastings

Movie
2019
Little Women

as Mr. Laurence

Movie
2019Movie
2019Movie
2019
Henrietta Bulkowski

as Danny Wilcox

Movie
2018
Homecoming

as Leonard Geist

TV
2018Movie
2017
Cars 3

as Smokey (voice)

Movie
2016
Live by Night

as Chief Irving Figgis

Movie
2016
Coming Through the Rye

as J.D. Salinger

Movie
2016
Demolition

as Phil Eastwood

Movie
2016
Fastball

as Clifford Blankenship (voice)

Movie
2016
11.22.63

as Al Templeton

TV
2014
The Amazing Spider-Man 2

as Norman Osborn (uncredited)

Movie
2013
August: Osage County

as Charlie Aiken

Movie
2013Movie
2012
The Company You Keep

as Daniel Sloan

Movie
2011
The Muppets

as Tex Richman

Movie
2011
Amigo

as Col. Hardacre

Movie
2010
The Company Men

as Phil Woodward

Movie
2010
The Town

as Stephen MacRay

Movie
2010
The Tempest

as Antonio

Movie
2010
Remember Me

as Neil Craig

Movie
2010Movie
2009
Where the Wild Things Are

as Douglas (voice)

Movie
2009Movie
2008
Extreme Movie

as FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)

Movie
2008Movie
2008
Walt Whitman

as Walt Whitman (voice)

Movie
2008
Married Life

as Harry Allen

Movie
2007
The Kingdom

as Grant Sykes

Movie
2007
Breach

as Robert Hanssen

Movie
2006
Primo Levi's Journey

as Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)

Movie
2005
Syriana

as Jimmy Pope

Movie
2005
Jarhead

as Lt. Col. Kazinski

Movie
2005
Capote

as Alvin Dewey

Movie
2004
Silver City

as Dickie Pilager

Movie
2004
The Bourne Supremacy

as Alexander Conklin (uncredited)

Movie
2003
Seabiscuit

as Tom Smith

Movie
2003
My House in Umbria

as Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith

Movie
2002
Adaptation.

as John Laroche

Movie
2002
The Bourne Identity

as Alexander Conklin

Movie
2002
Interstate 60

as Bob Cody

Movie
2000
The Patriot

as Col. Harry Burwell

Movie
2000
Me, Myself & Irene

as Lieutenant Gerke

Movie
1999
American Beauty

as Colonel Fitts

Movie
1999TV
1999
October Sky

as John Hickam

Movie
1999
The 24 Hour Woman

as Ron Hacksby

Movie
1998
The Horse Whisperer

as Frank Booker

Movie
1998Movie
1997
Alone

as Gus Jr.

Movie
1997
Breast Men

as Dr. William Larson

Movie
1996
A Time to Kill

as Dwayne Looney

Movie
1996
Lone Star

as Sam Deeds

Movie
1996
Boys

as Mr. John Baker

Movie
1996
The Deliverance of Elaine

as Charlie Skyler

Movie
1995
Money Train

as Torch

Movie
1995
Pharaoh's Army

as Captain John Hull Abston

Movie
1994
One More Mountain

as Jack Reed

Movie
1993TV
1993Movie
1992Movie
1992
Bed of Lies

as Price Daniel, Jr.

Movie
1991
City of Hope

as Riggs

Movie
1991
To the Moon, Alice

as Frank Wiliker

Movie
1991
Darrow

as Eugene Debs

Movie
1991Movie
1991
Guilty by Suspicion

as Larry Nolan

Movie
1991
In Broad Daylight

as Jack Wilson

Movie
1990Movie
1990
Law & Order

as Defense Attorney Roy Payne

TV
1989
Lonesome Dove

as July Johnson

TV
1988
American Experience

as Narrator (voice)

TV
1987
Matewan

as Joe Kenehan

Movie
1985
The Equalizer

as Michael

TV
1984
Miami Vice

as Jimmy Yagovitch

TV
1982
Bad Timing

as Eddie

Movie
1953
The Oscars

as Self

TV
Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayJuly 9, 1951
Place of BirthKansas City, Missouri, USA
Popularity1.8