person

Oliver Cooper

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1989-12-02

Place of Birth

Toledo, Ohio, USA

Oliver Cooper

Biography

Oliver Cooper was born on December 2, 1989 in Toledo, Ohio. In 2009, at the age of 19, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an actor and quickly landed an internship at CONAN. While taking an acting class, a fellow classmate told him that Warner Brothers was looking for fresh young faces to star in the Todd Phillips produced Project X and that Cooper would be perfect. With no representation, Oliver enlisted his friend, a former child star, Shaun Weiss, to help him secure an audition. Judd Apatow, who had worked with Weiss on Heavyweights, put in a call to the casting office. With a head shot taken on a cell phone camera, and against-all-odds, Cooper landed one of the lead roles in his very first audition. His debut performance as Costa earned him two MTV Movie Award nominations for Best Comedic Performance and Best On-Screen Dirtbag. Following up on the success of Project X, Oliver booked a supporting role in Runner Runner opposite Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck as well as a season arc on the popular Showtime series Californication as Levon, the illegitimate son of David Duchovny and Heather Graham's characters. In 2013 Cooper co-wrote and produced Four Dogs with his frequent collaborator Joe Burke who also directed the film. It premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival to rave reviews and is available to stream on Amazon Prime. Shortly thereafter he developed a pilot for Comedy Central called The King of Chicago, which he co-wrote with Cody Oz and produced alongside Scott Stuber. Oliver has since gone on to star in many shows and movies highlighted by his role as Wheeler, the stoner with a heart of gold, in the three season Amazon series Red Oaks, produced by Steven Soderbergh and directed by David Gordon Green. In 2018 Cooper appeared in Jason Reitman's The Front Runner alongside Hugh Jackman as young campaign aid Joe Trippi; and as Todd Krizelman, co-founder of the globe.com in Matthew Carnahan's National Geographic mini series Valley Of The Boom. Oliver also made a memorable appearance in season 2 of David Fincher's critically acclaimed Netflix series, Mindhunter, as infamous serial killer David Berkowitz aka The Son of Sam.

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The Cleaner

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Project X

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Desert Quarantine

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The Hangover Part III

May 23, 2013

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Runner Runner

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The Lemurian Candidate

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Four Dogs

Jun 16, 2013

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Clawfoot

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As We Know It

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Helen's Dead

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Baby Blue

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I Love You Forever

Feb 07, 2025

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Burying the Ex

Sep 04, 2014

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Sleuthhound Screwball

Jun 29, 2024

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Office Christmas Party

Nov 25, 2016

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Stealing Pulp Fiction

Jun 27, 2025

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The Front Runner

Nov 06, 2018

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Another Cancer Movie

Apr 24, 2018

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Nov 18, 2021

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The Swing of Things

Jul 02, 2020

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Echo Boomers

Nov 13, 2020

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The Ultimate Playlist of Noise

Jan 15, 2021

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Take Me to Tarzana

Feb 19, 2021

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Beyond Paranormal

Sep 28, 2021

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SOULM8TE

Dec 31, 2025

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The Coop

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Red Oaks

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MacGyver

Sep 23, 2016

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Californication

Aug 13, 2007

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Valley of the Boom

Jan 13, 2019

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MINDHUNTER

Oct 13, 2017

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The Goldbergs

Sep 24, 2013

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White Famous

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