Chris Cooper

Chris Cooper

09 Jul 1951 (73 years old) in Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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

Credits

  • 2023 · Boston Strangler as Jack Maclaine
  • 2022 · With/In Volume 2 as
  • 2021 · With/In Volume 2 as (segment "Nuts")
  • 2020 · Irresistible as Jack Hastings
  • 2019 · Little Women as Mr. Laurence
  • 2019 · Them That Work as Self
  • 2019 · A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood as Jerry Vogel
  • 2019 · It Takes a Lunatic as Self
  • 2019 · Henrietta Bulkowski as Danny Wilcox
  • 2018 · Homecoming as Leonard Geist
  • 2018 · Intelligent Lives as Self
  • 2017 · Cars 3 as Smokey Yunick (voice)
  • 2016 · Live by Night as Chief Irving Figgis
  • 2016 · Coming Through the Rye as J.D. Salinger
  • 2016 · Demolition as Phil Eastwood
  • 2016 · Fastball as Clifford Blankenship (voice)
  • 2016 · 11.22.63 as Al Templeton
  • 2014 · The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as Norman Osborn (uncredited)
  • 2013 · August: Osage County as Charlie Aiken
  • 2013 · Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy as Narrator (voice)
  • 2012 · The Company You Keep as Daniel Sloan
  • 2012 · Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God as Gary (voice)
  • 2011 · The Muppets as Tex Richman
  • 2011 · Amigo as Col. Hardacre
  • 2010 · The Company Men as Phil Woodward
  • 2010 · The Town as Stephen MacRay
  • 2010 · The Tempest as Antonio
  • 2010 · Remember Me as Neil Craig
  • 2010 · Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize as Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
  • 2009 · Where the Wild Things Are as Douglas (voice)
  • 2009 · The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln as Himself (Narrator)
  • 2008 · Extreme Movie as FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
  • 2008 · New York, I Love You as Alex
  • 2008 · Walt Whitman as Walt Whitman (voice)
  • 2008 · Married Life as Harry Allen
  • 2007 · The Kingdom as Grant Sykes
  • 2007 · Breach as Robert Hanssen
  • 2006 · Primo Levi's Journey as Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
  • 2006 · Making Capote: Concept to Script as Self
  • 2005 · Syriana as Jimmy Pope
  • 2005 · Jarhead as Lt. Col. Kazinski
  • 2005 · Capote as Alvin Dewey
  • 2004 · Silver City as Dickie Pilager
  • 2004 · The Bourne Supremacy as Alexander Conklin
  • 2003 · Seabiscuit as Tom Smith
  • 2003 · My House in Umbria as Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
  • 2002 · Adaptation. as John Laroche
  • 2002 · The Bourne Identity as Alexander Conklin
  • 2002 · Interstate 60 as Bob Cody
  • 2000 · American Beauty: Look Closer... as Self
  • 2000 · The Patriot as Col. Harry Burwell
  • 2000 · Me, Myself & Irene as Lieutenant Gerke
  • 1999 · American Beauty as Colonel Fitts
  • 1999 · Teen Choice Awards as Self - Nominee
  • 1999 · October Sky as John Hickam
  • 1998 · The Horse Whisperer as Frank Booker
  • 1998 · Great Expectations as Joe
  • 1997 · Alone as Gus Jr.
  • 1997 · Breast Men as Dr. William Larson
  • 1996 · A Time to Kill as Dwayne Looney
  • 1996 · Lone Star as Sam Deeds
  • 1996 · Boys as Mr. John Baker
  • 1996 · The Deliverance of Elaine as Charlie Skyler
  • 1995 · Money Train as Torch
  • 1995 · Pharaoh's Army as Captain John Hull Abston
  • 1994 · One More Mountain as Jack Reed
  • 1993 · Return to Lonesome Dove as July Johnson
  • 1993 · This Boy's Life as Roy
  • 1992 · Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life as Anthony Blessing
  • 1992 · Bed of Lies as Price Daniel, Jr.
  • 1991 · City of Hope as Riggs
  • 1991 · To the Moon, Alice as Frank Wiliker
  • 1991 · Darrow as Eugene Debs
  • 1991 · Thousand Pieces of Gold as Charlie
  • 1991 · Guilty by Suspicion as Larry Nolan
  • 1991 · In Broad Daylight as Jack Wilson
  • 1990 · A Little Piece of Sunshine as Ernie Favaro
  • 1990 · Law & Order as Defense Attorney Roy Payne
  • 1989 · Lonesome Dove as July Johnson
  • 1988 · American Experience as Narrator (voice)
  • 1987 · Matewan as Joe Kenehan
  • 1985 · The Equalizer as Michael
  • 1984 · Miami Vice as Jimmy Yagovitch
  • 1982 · Bad Timing as
  • 1953 · The Oscars as Self
  • 2024 · Everything's Going to Be Great as Walter
  • 2024 · Light on Broken Glass as Jay
  • 2024 · Them That Work as