Chris Cooper
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.
Known For
Colonel Fitts
American Beauty
Lt. Col. Kazinski
Jarhead
Jimmy Pope
Syriana
Alvin Dewey
Capote
Frank Booker
The Horse Whisperer
Lieutenant Gerke
Me, Myself & Irene
Dwayne Looney
A Time to Kill
Riggs
City of Hope
Alexander Conklin
The Bourne Identity
Col. Harry Burwell
The Patriot
John Laroche
Adaptation.
Robert Hanssen
Breach
Grant Sykes
The Kingdom
Tom Smith
Seabiscuit
Bob Cody
Interstate 60
Stephen MacRay
The Town
Neil Craig
Remember Me
Joe Kenehan
Matewan
Harry Allen
Married Life
Roy
This Boy's Life
Joe
Great Expectations
Sam
Lone Star
John Hickam
October Sky
Jack Maclaine
Boston Strangler
Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
My House in Umbria
Antonio
The Tempest
Phil Woodward
The Company Men
Douglas (voice)
Where the Wild Things Are
Dickie Pilager
Silver City
Walter
Everything's Going to Be Great
Dr. William Larson
Breast Men
Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
La strada di Levi
With/In Volume 2
Col. Hardacre
Amigo
Captain John Hull Abston
Pharaoh's Army
Daniel Sloan
The Company You Keep
Norman Osborn (uncredited)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Charlie
Thousand Pieces of Gold
Gary (voice)
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Charlie Aiken
August: Osage County
Jack Wilson
In Broad Daylight
Self
Making Capote: Concept to Script
Jay
Light on Broken Glass
Narrator (voice)
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Torch
Money Train
Alex
New York, I Love You
Larry Nolan
Guilty by Suspicion
Phil Eastwood
Demolition
Tex Richman
The Muppets
Anthony Blessing
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
Bad Timing
J.D. Salinger
Coming Through the Rye
Self
Intelligent Lives
Chief Irving Figgis
Live by Night
Clifford Blankenship (voice)
Fastball
Jack Reed
One More Mountain
Alexander Conklin
The Bourne Supremacy
Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Smokey (voice)
Cars 3
Mr. John Baker
Boys
Ernie Favaro
A Little Piece of Sunshine
Mr. Laurence
Little Women
Jerry Vogel
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Jack Hastings
Irresistible
Self
Them That Work
Self
It Takes a Lunatic
Price Daniel, Jr.
Bed of Lies
Himself (Narrator)
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Frank Wiliker
To the Moon, Alice
Danny Wilcox
Henrietta Bulkowski
Self
American Beauty: Look Closer...
Charlie Skyler
The Deliverance of Elaine
Eugene Debs
Darrow
FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
Extreme Movie
Walt Whitman (voice)
Walt Whitman
(segment "Nuts")
With/In Volume 2
Gus Jr.
Alone
Older Lionel
The History of Sound
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
78
Gender
Male
Birthday
1951-07-09
Place of Birth
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Also Known As
Крис Купер