
Chuck Cooper
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1954-11-08 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Chuck Cooper
Biography
Won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his portrayal of Memphis in The Life. His other Broadway credits include: Chicago, Passion, Someone to Watch Over Me, Rumors, Amen Corner, Getting Away With Murder, and Badfoot in St. Louis Woman, in City Centers acclaimed Encore series. National tours: The Tap Dance Kid, Eubie and Whistle Down the Wind. Off-Broadway: Thunder Knocking On The door, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Jawbone, Avenue X, Police Boys and Colored People's Time. Regional Theatre: Paul Robeson in Paul Robeson at the Passage Theatre, Thunder Knocking On The Door at Trinity Repertory, The Doctor is Out, Othello in Othello at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Brutus in Julius Caesar at the Philadelphia Drama Guild, Tullus Aufidius in Coriolanus at the Old Globe Theatre and Caliban in The Tempest at the Alliance Theatre Company. Television credits include Law & Order, Oz, Strangers with Candy, NYPD Blue, Cosby, The Cosby Mysteries, New York Undercover, I'll Fly Away, The Bold and the Beautiful and as Charlie the Bridge Man in the A&E series 100 Centre Street. His most recent film credits are _3 Days of Rain (2000)_, Our Song (2000), Gloria (1999), The Peacemaker (1997), The Juror (1996) and The Hurricane (1999).
Acting
Road Show
as Papa Mizner
(2021)
Vacation Friends
as Larry
(2021)
tick, tick... BOOM!
as "Sunday" Legend #1
(2019)
A Vigilante
as Lawyer
(2019)
The Public's Much Ado About Nothing
as Leonato
(2015)
Act One: Live from Lincoln Center
as Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston Hughes
(2014)
Romeo and Juliet
as Lord Capulet
(2013)
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
as Chauncey Eskridge
(2007)
American Gangster
as Private Doctor
(2007)
Evening
as Ray
(2007)
Chapter 27
as Cabbie
(2007)
Noise
as Judge Gibson
(2006)
Find Me Guilty
as James Washington
(2006)
A Crime
as Will
(2004)
Downtown: A Street Tale
as Sergeant Williams
(2000)
The Opportunists
as Arnon Morris
(2000)
Our Song
as Benjamin
(1999)
The Hurricane
as Earl Martin
(1999)
Gloria
as Male Guard
(1997)
The Peacemaker
as NYPD Cop
(1996)
The Juror
as Stockbroker
(1994)
North
as Umpire
(1992)
Malcolm X
as Customer
(1990)
Criminal Justice
as Judge Whitney
(1987)
Action Family
as Cop