Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 09, 1951
Place of Birth
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Credits
94 titles
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
Filmography
Unscripted Lives
Executive Producer
The History of Sound
Older Lionel
Everything's Going to Be Great
Walter
Boston Strangler
Jack Maclaine
With/In Volume 2
(segment "Nuts")
Irresistible
Jack Hastings
Little Women
Mr. Laurence
Them That Work
Self
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Jerry Vogel
It Takes a Lunatic
Self
Henrietta Bulkowski
Danny Wilcox
Homecoming
Leonard Geist
Intelligent Lives
Self
Cars 3
Smokey (voice)
Live by Night
Chief Irving Figgis
Coming Through the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Demolition
Phil Eastwood
Fastball
Clifford Blankenship (voice)
11.22.63
Al Templeton
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Norman Osborn (uncredited)
August: Osage County
Charlie Aiken
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Company You Keep
Daniel Sloan
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Gary (voice)
The Muppets
Tex Richman
Amigo
Col. Hardacre
The Company Men
Phil Woodward
The Town
Stephen MacRay
The Tempest
Antonio
Remember Me
Neil Craig
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
Where the Wild Things Are
Douglas (voice)
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Himself (Narrator)
Extreme Movie
FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
New York, I Love You
Alex
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman (voice)
Married Life
Harry Allen
The Kingdom
Grant Sykes
Breach
Robert Hanssen
Primo Levi's Journey
Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
Making Capote: Concept to Script
Self
Syriana
Jimmy Pope
Jarhead
Lt. Col. Kazinski
Capote
Alvin Dewey
The Making of 'Seabiscuit'
Self
Silver City
Dickie Pilager
The Bourne Supremacy
Alexander Conklin (uncredited)
Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend
Self
Seabiscuit
Tom Smith
'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend
Self