Chris Cooper
Known For
Acting
Born
1951-07-09 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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.
Most Known For
Law & Order
as Defense Attorney Roy Payne
Miami Vice
as Jimmy Yagovitch
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
The Equalizer
as Michael
Lonesome Dove
as July Johnson
The Oscars
as Self
11.22.63
as Al Templeton
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
as Norman Osborn (uncredited)
Cars 3
as Smokey (voice)
The Bourne Identity
as Alexander Conklin
American Beauty
as Colonel Fitts
Little Women
as Mr. Laurence
Homecoming
as Leonard Geist
The Bourne Supremacy
as Alexander Conklin (uncredited)
The Town
as Stephen MacRay
The Patriot
as Col. Harry Burwell
Syriana
as Jimmy Pope
Jarhead
as Lt. Col. Kazinski
Me, Myself & Irene
as Lieutenant Gerke
A Time to Kill
as Dwayne Looney