Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 08, 1954
Place of Birth
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Credits
49 titles
Chuck Cooper
Biography
Won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his portrayal of Memphis in The Life. His other Broadway credits include: Chicago, Passion, Someone to Watch Over Me, Rumors, Amen Corner, Getting Away With Murder, and Badfoot in St. Louis Woman, in City Centers acclaimed Encore series. National tours: The Tap Dance Kid, Eubie and Whistle Down the Wind. Off-Broadway: Thunder Knocking On The door, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Jawbone, Avenue X, Police Boys and Colored People's Time. Regional Theatre: Paul Robeson in Paul Robeson at the Passage Theatre, Thunder Knocking On The Door at Trinity Repertory, The Doctor is Out, Othello in Othello at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Brutus in Julius Caesar at the Philadelphia Drama Guild, Tullus Aufidius in Coriolanus at the Old Globe Theatre and Caliban in The Tempest at the Alliance Theatre Company. Television credits include Law & Order, Oz, Strangers with Candy, NYPD Blue, Cosby, The Cosby Mysteries, New York Undercover, I'll Fly Away, The Bold and the Beautiful and as Charlie the Bridge Man in the A&E series 100 Centre Street. His most recent film credits are _3 Days of Rain (2000)_, Our Song (2000), Gloria (1999), The Peacemaker (1997), The Juror (1996) and The Hurricane (1999).
Known For
Filmography
Poker Face
Deuteronomy
The First Lady
Martin Luther King Sr.
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"Sunday" Legend #1
Vacation Friends
Larry
Power Book II: Ghost
Reverend Macedon
Little Voice
Percy
The Public's Much Ado About Nothing
Leonato
A Vigilante
Lawyer
God Friended Me
Larry
New Amsterdam
Leon Hargrow
The Blacklist: Redemption
General Phillips
Bull
Judge Elmendorf
Act One: Live from Lincoln Center
Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston Hughes
Madam Secretary
Mitch Sarno
Romeo and Juliet
Lord Capulet
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Chauncey Eskridge
House of Cards
Barney Hull
White Collar
Parole Officer
The Good Wife
Gerard Gallo
Nurse Jackie
Intestine Man
Chapter 27
Cabbie
Noise
Judge Gibson
American Gangster
Private Doctor
Gossip Girl
Horace Rogers
Evening
Ray
A Crime
Will
Find Me Guilty
James Washington
Downtown: A Street Tale
Sergeant Williams
Hack
Hayden
Without a Trace
Barry's Ex-Boss
100 Centre Street
Charlie the Bridgeman
The Opportunists
Arnon Morris
Our Song
Benjamin
Third Watch
Lieutenant Kyle
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Mr. Tassler
The Hurricane
Earl Martin
Strangers with Candy
Sack Race Referee
Gloria
Male Guard
The Peacemaker
NYPD Cop
The Juror
Stockbroker
Sweet Nothing
Mark the Cop
New York Undercover
Sawyer
North
Umpire
NYPD Blue
Bus Driver
Malcolm X
Customer
Law & Order
Walters' Attorney
Criminal Justice
Judge Whitney
Action Family
Cop
After All