Chris Cooper
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 9, 1951 (age 75)
- Place of birth
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Credits
- 93
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).
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Known for
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014Movie
Norman Osborn (uncredited)
American Beauty
1999Movie
Colonel Fitts
The Bourne Identity
2002Movie
Alexander Conklin
The Bourne Supremacy
2004Movie
Alexander Conklin (uncredited)
Little Women
2019Movie
Mr. Laurence
Cars 3
2017Movie
Smokey (voice)
Filmography
The History of Sound
2025Movie
Older Lionel
Everything's Going to Be Great
2025Movie
Walter
Boston Strangler
2023Movie
Jack Maclaine
With/In Volume 2
2021Movie
(segment "Nuts")
Irresistible
2020Movie
Jack Hastings
Little Women
2019Movie
Mr. Laurence
Them That Work
2019Movie
Self
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2019Movie
Jerry Vogel
It Takes a Lunatic
2019Movie
Self
Henrietta Bulkowski
2019Movie
Danny Wilcox
Homecoming
2018TV
Leonard Geist
Intelligent Lives
2018Movie
Self
Cars 3
2017Movie
Smokey (voice)
Live by Night
2016Movie
Chief Irving Figgis
Coming Through the Rye
2016Movie
J.D. Salinger
Demolition
2016Movie
Phil Eastwood
Fastball
2016Movie
Clifford Blankenship (voice)
11.22.63
2016TV
Al Templeton
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014Movie
Norman Osborn (uncredited)
August: Osage County
2013Movie
Charlie Aiken
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Company You Keep
2012Movie
Daniel Sloan
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012Movie
Gary (voice)
The Muppets
2011Movie
Tex Richman
Amigo
2011Movie
Col. Hardacre
The Company Men
2010Movie
Phil Woodward
The Town
2010Movie
Stephen MacRay
The Tempest
2010Movie
Antonio
Remember Me
2010Movie
Neil Craig
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
2010Movie
Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
Where the Wild Things Are
2009Movie
Douglas (voice)
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
2009Movie
Himself (Narrator)
Extreme Movie
2008Movie
FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
New York, I Love You
2008Movie
Alex
Walt Whitman
2008Movie
Walt Whitman (voice)
Married Life
2008Movie
Harry Allen
The Kingdom
2007Movie
Grant Sykes
Breach
2007Movie
Robert Hanssen
Primo Levi's Journey
2006Movie
Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
Making Capote: Concept to Script
2006Movie
Self
Syriana
2005Movie
Jimmy Pope
Jarhead
2005Movie
Lt. Col. Kazinski
Capote
2005Movie
Alvin Dewey
The Making of 'Seabiscuit'
2004Movie
Self
Silver City
2004Movie
Dickie Pilager
The Bourne Supremacy
2004Movie
Alexander Conklin (uncredited)
Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend
2003Movie
Self
Seabiscuit
2003Movie
Tom Smith
'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend
2003Movie
Self
My House in Umbria
2003Movie
Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
Adaptation.
2002Movie
John Laroche
The Bourne Identity
2002Movie
Alexander Conklin
Interstate 60
2002Movie
Bob Cody
American Beauty: Look Closer...
2000Movie
Self
The Patriot
2000Movie
Col. Harry Burwell
Me, Myself & Irene
2000Movie
Lieutenant Gerke
American Beauty
1999Movie
Colonel Fitts
Teen Choice Awards
1999TV
Self
October Sky
1999Movie
John Hickam
The 24 Hour Woman
1999Movie
Ron Hacksby
The Horse Whisperer
1998Movie
Frank Booker
Great Expectations
1998Movie
Joe
Alone
1997Movie
Gus Jr.
Breast Men
1997Movie
Dr. William Larson
A Time to Kill
1996Movie
Dwayne Looney
Lone Star
1996Movie
Sam Deeds
Boys
1996Movie
Mr. John Baker
The Deliverance of Elaine
1996Movie
Charlie Skyler
Money Train
1995Movie
Torch
Pharaoh's Army
1995Movie
Captain John Hull Abston
One More Mountain
1994Movie
Jack Reed
Return to Lonesome Dove
1993TV
July Johnson
This Boy's Life
1993Movie
Roy
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
1992Movie
Anthony Blessing
Bed of Lies
1992Movie
Price Daniel, Jr.
City of Hope
1991Movie
Riggs
To The Moon, Alice
1991Movie
Frank Wiliker
Darrow
1991Movie
Eugene Debs
Thousand Pieces of Gold
1991Movie
Charlie
Guilty by Suspicion
1991Movie
Larry Nolan
In Broad Daylight
1991Movie
Jack Wilson
A Little Piece of Sunshine
1990Movie
Ernie Favaro
Law & Order
1990TV
Defense Attorney Roy Payne
Lonesome Dove
1989TV
July Johnson
American Experience
1988TV
Narrator (voice)
Matewan
1987Movie
Joe Kenehan
The Equalizer
1985TV
Michael
Miami Vice
1984TV
Jimmy Yagovitch
Bad Timing
1982Movie
Eddie
American Playhouse
1982TV
Louis Halladay, Charlie Bemis, Eugene Debs
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
I Passed This Way
Movie
Light on Broken Glass
Movie
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