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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 9, 1951
Place of Birth
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Chris Cooper
2.3 Popularity
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
6.1
Older Lionel
The History of Sound
2025
6.3
Walter
Everything's Going to Be Great
2025
6.7
Jack Maclaine
Boston Strangler
2023
7.4
With/In Volume 2
2022
4.0
(segment "Nuts")
With/In Volume 2
2021
6.0
Jack Hastings
Irresistible
2020
7.9
Mr. Laurence
Little Women
2019
0.0
Self
Them That Work
2019
7.0
Jerry Vogel
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2019
5.3
Self
It Takes a Lunatic
2019
Credits
The History of Sound
as Older Lionel
2025
6.1
Everything's Going to Be Great
as Walter
2025
6.3
Boston Strangler
as Jack Maclaine
2023
6.7
With/In Volume 2
2022
7.4
With/In Volume 2
as (segment "Nuts")
2021
4.0
Irresistible
as Jack Hastings
2020
6.0
Little Women
as Mr. Laurence
2019
7.9
Them That Work
as Self
2019
0.0
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
as Jerry Vogel
2019
7.0
It Takes a Lunatic
as Self
2019
5.3
Henrietta Bulkowski
as Danny Wilcox
2019
6.2
Homecoming
as Leonard Geist
2018
7.0
Intelligent Lives
as Self
2018
0.0
Cars 3
as Smokey (voice)
2017
6.9
Live by Night
as Chief Irving Figgis
2016
6.3
Coming Through the Rye
as J.D. Salinger
2016
6.2
Demolition
as Phil Eastwood
2016
6.8
Fastball
as Clifford Blankenship (voice)
2016
7.1
11.22.63
as Al Templeton
2016
7.8
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
as Norman Osborn (uncredited)
2014
6.5
August: Osage County
as Charlie Aiken
2013
6.9
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2013
6.6
The Company You Keep
as Daniel Sloan
2012
6.2
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
as Gary (voice)
2012
7.3
The Muppets
as Tex Richman
2011
6.7
Amigo
as Col. Hardacre
2011
4.8
The Company Men
as Phil Woodward
2010
6.5
The Town
as Stephen MacRay
2010
7.2
The Tempest
as Antonio
2010
5.3
Remember Me
as Neil Craig
2010
7.1
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
as Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
2010
3.8
Where the Wild Things Are
as Douglas (voice)
2009
6.5
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
as Himself (Narrator)
2009
4.5
Extreme Movie
as FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
2008
4.4
New York, I Love You
as Alex
2008
5.9
Walt Whitman
as Walt Whitman (voice)
2008
5.0
Married Life
as Harry Allen
2008
5.8
The Kingdom
as Grant Sykes
2007
6.7
Breach
as Robert Hanssen
2007
6.6
Primo Levi's Journey
as Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
2006
5.9
Making Capote: Concept to Script
as Self
2006
6.5
Syriana
as Jimmy Pope
2005
6.4
Jarhead
as Lt. Col. Kazinski
2005
6.7
Capote
as Alvin Dewey
2005
7.0
🎬
The Making of 'Seabiscuit'
as Self
2004
0.0
Silver City
as Dickie Pilager
2004
6.1
The Bourne Supremacy
as Alexander Conklin (uncredited)
2004
7.3
🎬
Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend
as Self
2003
0.0
Seabiscuit
as Tom Smith
2003
7.1
🎬
'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend
as Self
2003
0.0
My House in Umbria
as Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
2003
6.0
Adaptation.
as John Laroche
2002
7.3
The Bourne Identity
as Alexander Conklin
2002
7.5
Interstate 60
as Bob Cody
2002
7.4
American Beauty: Look Closer...
as Self
2000
7.4
The Patriot
as Col. Harry Burwell
2000
7.2
Me, Myself & Irene
as Lieutenant Gerke
2000
6.6
American Beauty
as Colonel Fitts
1999
8.0
Teen Choice Awards
as Self
1999
9.1
October Sky
as John Hickam
1999
7.7
The 24 Hour Woman
as Ron Hacksby
1999
3.0
The Horse Whisperer
as Frank Booker
1998
6.9
Great Expectations
as Joe
1998
6.6
Alone
as Gus Jr.
1997
6.5
Breast Men
as Dr. William Larson
1997
5.2
A Time to Kill
as Dwayne Looney
1996
7.4
Lone Star
as Sam Deeds
1996
7.0
Boys
as Mr. John Baker
1996
5.3
The Deliverance of Elaine
as Charlie Skyler
1996
4.0
Money Train
as Torch
1995
5.8
Pharaoh's Army
as Captain John Hull Abston
1995
6.8
One More Mountain
as Jack Reed
1994
5.4
Return to Lonesome Dove
as July Johnson
1993
6.9
This Boy's Life
as Roy
1993
7.1
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
as Anthony Blessing
1992
3.0
Bed of Lies
as Price Daniel, Jr.
1992
5.0
City of Hope
as Riggs
1991
6.6
🎬
To the Moon, Alice
as Frank Wiliker
1991
0.0
Darrow
as Eugene Debs
1991
5.3
Thousand Pieces of Gold
as Charlie
1991
6.8
Guilty by Suspicion
as Larry Nolan
1991
6.5
In Broad Daylight
as Jack Wilson
1991
5.7
A Little Piece of Sunshine
as Ernie Favaro
1990
6.0
Law & Order
as Defense Attorney Roy Payne
1990
7.4
Lonesome Dove
as July Johnson
1989
7.9
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
1988
6.9
Matewan
as Joe Kenehan
1987
7.4
The Equalizer
as Michael
1985
7.1
Miami Vice
as Jimmy Yagovitch
1984
7.5
Bad Timing
as Eddie
1982
0.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
🎬
Light on Broken Glass
as Jay
N/A
0.0