Chris Cooper 1951 74
Chris Cooper 1951 74
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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2025 Everything's Going to Be Great as Walter
2025 The History of Sound as Older Lionel
2025 Them That Work
2025 Light on Broken Glass as Jay
2023 Boston Strangler as Jack Maclaine
2022 With/In Volume 2 Director
2021 With/In Volume 2 as (segment "Nuts") Director
2020 Irresistible as Jack Hastings
2019 Little Women as Mr. Laurence
2019 Them That Work as Self
2019 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood as Jerry Vogel
2019 It Takes a Lunatic as Self
2019 Henrietta Bulkowski as Danny Wilcox
2018 Intelligent Lives as Self Executive Producer
2017 Cars 3 as Smokey (voice)
2016 Live by Night as Chief Irving Figgis
2016 Coming Through the Rye as J.D. Salinger
2016 Demolition as Phil Eastwood
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 Company Men as Phil Woodward
2010 The Town as Stephen MacRay
2010 The Tempest as Antonio
2010 Remember Me as Neil Craig
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 Extreme Movie as FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
2008 New York, I Love You as Alex
2008 Walt Whitman as Walt Whitman (voice)
2008 Married Life as Harry Allen
2007 The Kingdom as Grant Sykes
2007 Breach as Robert Hanssen
2006 Primo Levi's Journey as Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
2006 Making Capote: Concept to Script as Self
2005 Syriana as Jimmy Pope
2005 Jarhead as Lt. Col. Kazinski
2005 Capote as Alvin Dewey
2004 Silver City as Dickie Pilager
2004 The Bourne Supremacy as Alexander Conklin
2003 Seabiscuit as Tom Smith
2003 My House in Umbria as Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
2002 Adaptation. as John Laroche
2002 The Bourne Identity as Alexander Conklin
2002 Interstate 60 as Bob Cody
2000 American Beauty: Look Closer... as Self
2000 The Patriot as Col. Harry Burwell
2000 Me, Myself & Irene as Lieutenant Gerke
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 Alone as Gus Jr.
1997 Breast Men as Dr. William Larson
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 Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life as Anthony Blessing
1992 Bed of Lies as Price Daniel, Jr.
1991 City of Hope as Riggs
1991 To the Moon, Alice as Frank Wiliker
1991 Darrow as Eugene Debs
1991 Thousand Pieces of Gold as Charlie
1991 Guilty by Suspicion as Larry Nolan
1991 In Broad Daylight as Jack Wilson
1990 A Little Piece of Sunshine as Ernie Favaro
1987 Matewan as Joe Kenehan
1982 Bad Timing