Chris Cooper
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1951-07-09 (73 years old)
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).
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Acting
Light on Broken Glass
as Jay
(2026)
The History of Sound
as Older Lionel
(2025)
Everything's Going to Be Great
as Walter
(2023)
Boston Strangler
as Jack Maclaine
(2022)
(2021)
With/In Volume 2
as (segment "Nuts")
(2020)
Irresistible
as Jack Hastings
(2019)
Little Women
as Mr. Laurence
(2019)
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
as Jerry Vogel
(2019)
It Takes a Lunatic
as Self
(2019)
Henrietta Bulkowski
as Danny Wilcox
(2019)
Them That Work
as Self
(2018)
Intelligent Lives
as Self
(2017)
Cars 3
as Smokey (voice)
(2016)
Demolition
as Phil Eastwood
(2016)
Live by Night
as Chief Irving Figgis
(2016)
Coming Through the Rye
as J.D. Salinger
(2016)
Fastball
as Clifford Blankenship (voice)
(2014)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
as Norman Osborn (uncredited)
(2013)
August: Osage County
as Charlie Aiken
(2013)
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
as Narrator (voice)
(2012)
The Company You Keep
as Daniel Sloan
(2012)
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
as Gary (voice)
(2011)
The Muppets
as Tex Richman
(2011)
Amigo
as Col. Hardacre
(2010)
The Town
as Stephen MacRay
(2010)
Remember Me
as Neil Craig
(2010)
The Company Men
as Phil Woodward
(2010)
The Tempest
as Antonio
(2010)
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
as Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
(2009)
Where the Wild Things Are
as Douglas (voice)
(2009)
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
as Himself (Narrator)
(2008)
New York, I Love You
as Alex
(2008)
Extreme Movie
as FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
(2008)
Married Life
as Harry Allen
(2008)
Walt Whitman
as Walt Whitman (voice)
(2007)
The Kingdom
as Grant Sykes
(2007)
Breach
as Robert Hanssen
(2006)
(2006)
Primo Levi's Journey
as Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
(2005)
Jarhead
as Lt. Col. Kazinski
(2005)
Capote
as Alvin Dewey
(2005)
Syriana
as Jimmy Pope
(2004)
The Bourne Supremacy
as Alexander Conklin
(2004)
Silver City
as Dickie Pilager
(2003)
Seabiscuit
as Tom Smith
(2003)
My House in Umbria
as Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
(2002)
The Bourne Identity
as Alexander Conklin
(2002)
Interstate 60
as Bob Cody
(2002)
Adaptation.
as John Laroche
(2000)
The Patriot
as Col. Harry Burwell
(2000)
Me, Myself & Irene
as Lieutenant Gerke
(2000)
(1999)
American Beauty
as Colonel Fitts
(1999)
October Sky
as John Hickam
(1998)
The Horse Whisperer
as Frank Booker
(1998)
Great Expectations
as Joe
(1997)
Breast Men
as Dr. William Larson
(1997)
Alone
as Gus Jr.
(1996)
A Time to Kill
as Dwayne Looney
(1996)
Lone Star
as Sam Deeds
(1996)
Boys
as Mr. John Baker
(1996)
The Deliverance of Elaine
as Charlie Skyler
(1995)
Money Train
as Torch
(1995)
Pharaoh's Army
as Captain John Hull Abston
(1994)
One More Mountain
as Jack Reed
(1993)
This Boy's Life
as Roy
(1992)
Bed of Lies
as Price Daniel, Jr.
(1992)
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
as Anthony Blessing
(1991)
Guilty by Suspicion
as Larry Nolan
(1991)
City of Hope
as Riggs
(1991)
Thousand Pieces of Gold
as Charlie
(1991)
Darrow
as Eugene Debs
(1991)
To the Moon, Alice
as Frank Wiliker
(1991)
In Broad Daylight
as Jack Wilson
(1990)
A Little Piece of Sunshine
as Ernie Favaro
(1987)
Matewan
as Joe Kenehan
(1982)
Crew
(2022)
With/In Volume 2
Director
(2021)
With/In Volume 2
Director
(2018)
Intelligent Lives
Executive Producer