Chris Cooper
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1951-07-09
Place of Birth
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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.
Also Known For
American Beauty
Sep 15, 1999
Jarhead
Nov 04, 2005
Syriana
Nov 23, 2005
Capote
Sep 30, 2005
The Horse Whisperer
Feb 01, 1998
Me, Myself & Irene
Jun 22, 2000
A Time to Kill
Jul 24, 1996
City of Hope
Oct 11, 1991
The Bourne Identity
Jun 14, 2002
The Patriot
Jun 28, 2000
Adaptation.
Dec 06, 2002
Breach
Feb 12, 2007
The Kingdom
Aug 22, 2007
Seabiscuit
Jul 22, 2003
Interstate 60
Apr 13, 2002
The Town
Sep 15, 2010
Remember Me
Mar 11, 2010
Matewan
Aug 28, 1987
Married Life
Mar 28, 2008
This Boy's Life
Apr 09, 1993
Great Expectations
Jan 30, 1998
Lone Star
Jun 21, 1996
October Sky
Feb 19, 1999
Boston Strangler
Mar 16, 2023
My House in Umbria
May 25, 2003
The Tempest
Sep 11, 2010
The Company Men
Oct 21, 2010
Where the Wild Things Are
Oct 16, 2009
Silver City
Sep 17, 2004
Everything's Going to Be Great
Jun 20, 2025
Breast Men
Dec 13, 1997
Primo Levi's Journey
Sep 12, 2006
With/In Volume 2
Mar 15, 2022
Amigo
Aug 19, 2011
Pharaoh's Army
Apr 09, 1995
The Company You Keep
Dec 20, 2012
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Apr 16, 2014
Thousand Pieces of Gold
Apr 26, 1991
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Nov 16, 2012
August: Osage County
Dec 26, 2013
In Broad Daylight
Feb 03, 1991
Making Capote: Concept to Script
Mar 21, 2006
Light on Broken Glass
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Jun 19, 2013
Money Train
Nov 21, 1995
New York, I Love You
Sep 06, 2008
Guilty by Suspicion
Mar 15, 1991
Demolition
Apr 06, 2016
The Muppets
Nov 22, 2011
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
Apr 14, 1992
Bad Timing
Dec 31, 1982
Coming Through the Rye
Oct 13, 2016
Intelligent Lives
Apr 01, 2018
Live by Night
Dec 25, 2016
Fastball
Mar 25, 2016
One More Mountain
Mar 06, 1994
The Bourne Supremacy
Jul 23, 2004
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Jan 01, 2010
Cars 3
Jun 15, 2017
Boys
May 10, 1996
A Little Piece of Sunshine
Nov 17, 1990
Little Women
Dec 25, 2019
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Sep 07, 2019
Irresistible
Jul 01, 2020
Them That Work
Oct 29, 2019
It Takes a Lunatic
May 03, 2019
Bed of Lies
Jan 20, 1992
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Feb 09, 2009
To the Moon, Alice
Oct 02, 1991
Henrietta Bulkowski
Mar 08, 2019
American Beauty: Look Closer...
Oct 24, 2000
The Deliverance of Elaine
Apr 10, 1996
Darrow
Jun 08, 1991
Extreme Movie
Dec 05, 2008
Walt Whitman
Apr 14, 2008
With/In Volume 2
Jun 14, 2021
Alone
Dec 21, 1997
The History of Sound
Sep 12, 2025
Return to Lonesome Dove
Nov 14, 1993
Lonesome Dove
Feb 05, 1989
11.22.63
Feb 15, 2016
American Experience
Oct 04, 1988
Law & Order
Sep 13, 1990
Teen Choice Awards
Aug 01, 1999
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
Miami Vice
Sep 16, 1984
The Equalizer
Sep 18, 1985
