Chris Cooper
Acting
1951-07-09 · Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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.
Filmography
Unscripted Lives
2025 · Movie
The History of Sound
2025 · Movie
Everything's Going to Be Great
2025 · Movie
Boston Strangler
2023 · Movie
With/In Volume 2
2021 · Movie
Irresistible
2020 · Movie
Little Women
2019 · Movie
Them That Work
2019 · Movie
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2019 · Movie
It Takes a Lunatic
2019 · Movie
Henrietta Bulkowski
2019 · Movie
Homecoming
2018 · Series
Intelligent Lives
2018 · Movie
Cars 3
2017 · Movie
Live by Night
2016 · Movie
Coming Through the Rye
2016 · Movie
Demolition
2016 · Movie
Fastball
2016 · Movie
11.22.63
2016 · Series
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014 · Movie
August: Osage County
2013 · Movie
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013 · Movie
The Company You Keep
2012 · Movie
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012 · Movie
The Muppets
2011 · Movie
Amigo
2011 · Movie
The Company Men
2010 · Movie
The Town
2010 · Movie
The Tempest
2010 · Movie
Remember Me
2010 · Movie
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
2010 · Movie
Where the Wild Things Are
2009 · Movie
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
2009 · Movie
Extreme Movie
2008 · Movie
New York, I Love You
2008 · Movie
Walt Whitman
2008 · Movie
Married Life
2008 · Movie
The Kingdom
2007 · Movie
Breach
2007 · Movie
Primo Levi's Journey
2006 · Movie
Making Capote: Concept to Script
2006 · Movie
Syriana
2005 · Movie
Jarhead
2005 · Movie
Capote
2005 · Movie
The Making of 'Seabiscuit'
2004 · Movie
Silver City
2004 · Movie
The Bourne Supremacy
2004 · Movie
Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend
2003 · Movie
Seabiscuit
2003 · Movie
'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend
2003 · Movie
My House in Umbria
2003 · Movie
Adaptation.
2002 · Movie
The Bourne Identity
2002 · Movie
Interstate 60
2002 · Movie
American Beauty: Look Closer...
2000 · Movie
The Patriot
2000 · Movie
Me, Myself & Irene
2000 · Movie
American Beauty
1999 · Movie
Teen Choice Awards
1999 · Series
October Sky
1999 · Movie
The 24 Hour Woman
1999 · Movie
The Horse Whisperer
1998 · Movie
Great Expectations
1998 · Movie
Alone
1997 · Movie
Breast Men
1997 · Movie
A Time to Kill
1996 · Movie
Lone Star
1996 · Movie
Boys
1996 · Movie
The Deliverance of Elaine
1996 · Movie
Money Train
1995 · Movie
Pharaoh's Army
1995 · Movie
One More Mountain
1994 · Movie
Return to Lonesome Dove
1993 · Series
This Boy's Life
1993 · Movie
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
1992 · Movie
Bed of Lies
1992 · Movie
City of Hope
1991 · Movie
To The Moon, Alice
1991 · Movie
Darrow
1991 · Movie
Thousand Pieces of Gold
1991 · Movie
Guilty by Suspicion
1991 · Movie
In Broad Daylight
1991 · Movie
A Little Piece of Sunshine
1990 · Movie
Law & Order
1990 · Series
Lonesome Dove
1989 · Series
American Experience
1988 · Series
Matewan
1987 · Movie
The Equalizer
1985 · Series
Miami Vice
1984 · Series
Bad Timing
1982 · Movie
American Playhouse
1982 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
I Passed This Way
Movie
Light on Broken Glass
Movie