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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Chris Cooper Biography / Wiki
| Name | Chris Cooper |
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| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Kansas City, Missouri, USA |
| Date of Birth | July 09, 1951 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 71 |
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Chris Cooper Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Breach | Robert Hanssen | 2007-02-12 | Eric O’Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, an… |
| Matewan | Joe Kenehan | 1987-08-28 | Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, “Matewan” celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Keneh… |
| Lone Star | Sam Deeds | 1996-06-21 | When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town…. |
| Amigo | Col. Hardacre | 2010-07-14 | Rafael, a village mayor caught in the murderous crossfire of the Philippine-American War. When U.S. troops occupy his village, Rafael comes under pres… |
| Pharaoh’s Army | Captain John Hull Abston | 1995-04-09 | Union soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until one in their ranks’ wounds have healed. While th… |
| Walt Whitman (American Experience) | Walt Whitman (voice) | 2008-04-14 | This American Experience tells Whitman’s life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn… |
| Married Life | Harry Allen | 2007-09-12 | A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too mu… |
| Breast Men | Dr. William Larson | 1997-12-13 | We follow the two Texas doctors who invented the modern breast implant and its surgical procedure. However, when success and money come their way, the… |
| Thousand Pieces of Gold | Charlie | 1991-04-26 | In 1880s China, young Lalu is sold into marriage by her impoverished father. Rather than becoming a bride, Lalu ends up in an Idaho gold-mining town, … |
| Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God | Gary (voice) | 2012-11-16 | Academy Award®–winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, f… |
| One More Mountain | Jack Reed | 1994-03-06 | Margaret Reed, a wealthy and proud woman of Chicago unwillingly finds herself a member of the Donner party – a group of pioneers making their way to C… |
| A Little Piece of Sunshine | Ernie Favaro | 1990-11-17 | Sunshine, an idyllic and almost forgotten island under British rule, is shortly to become independent. But a few days before this event is to take pla… |
| Bed of Lies | Price Daniel, Jr. | 1992-01-20 | Dramatization of the true-life story of a woman who fights for custody of her children while awaiting trial for the murder of her husband, who happens… |
| Henrietta Bulkowski | Danny Wilcox | 2019-03-08 | A determined young woman, crippled with a severe hunchback, will stop at nothing to fulfill her dream of seeing the world. This is the story of how sh… |
| The Deliverance of Elaine | Charlie Skyler | 1996-04-10 | A small town schoolteacher is hunted by a paroled con who holds the secret of her dark past…. |
| The Bourne Identity | Alexander Conklin | 2002-06-14 | Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank accoun… |
| Adaptation. | John Laroche | 2002-12-06 | Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the scr… |
| The Kingdom | Grant Sykes | 2007-08-22 | A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East…. |
| My House in Umbria | Thomas ‘Tom’ Riversmith | 2003-05-25 | Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed… |
| The Company Men | Phil Woodward | 2010-10-21 | Bobby Walker lives the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and t… |
| Primo Levi’s Journey | Narrator (voice) (U.S. version) | 2006-09-12 | In February, 1945, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and other Auschwitz survivors set off for home. The journey took more then eight months. Sixty years later, … |
| August: Osage County | Charlie Aiken | 2013-12-26 | A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest h… |
| Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life | Anthony Blessing | 1992-04-14 | A haggard cowboy reflects upon his life while awaiting his death…. |
| Demolition | Phil Eastwood | 2015-04-08 | An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets…. |
| Coming Through the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 2016-10-13 | Coming Through the Rye, set in 1969, is a touching coming of age story of sensitive, 16 year old Jamie Schwartz, who is not the most popular kid at hi… |
| Cars 3 | Smokey Yunick (voice) | 2017-06-15 | Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in th… |
| A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Jerry Vogel | 2019-09-07 | An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon … |
| Irresistible | Jack Hastings | 2020-07-01 | A Democratic political consultant helps a retired Marine colonel run for mayor in a small, conservative Wisconsin town…. |
| Them That Work | Self | 2019-10-29 | Documentary about the impact left by John Sayles’ 1987 film Matewan, about a shooting between company gun thugs and union organizers in Southern Wes… |
| Boston Strangler | Jack Maclaine | 2023-03-17 | Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the lin… |
| The Muppets | Tex Richman | 2011-11-22 | When Kermit the Frog and the Muppets learn that their beloved theater is slated for demolition, a sympathetic human, Gary, and his puppet brother, Wal… |
| Syriana | Jimmy Pope | 2005-11-23 | The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer… |
| Seabiscuit | Tom Smith | 2003-07-22 | True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation… |
| This Boy’s Life | Roy | 1993-04-09 | When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to b… |
| Great Expectations | Joe | 1998-01-30 | Loosely based on the Charles Dickens’ classic novel, “Great Expectations” is a sensual tale of a young man’s unforgettable passage into manhood, and t… |
| October Sky | John Hickam | 1999-02-19 | Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner’s son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father’s wish… |
| Silver City | Dickie Pilager | 2004-09-17 | The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician’s campaign for governor of Colorado…. |
| In Broad Daylight | Jack Wilson | 1991-02-03 | The fanatically uncompromising Len Rowan and his family insult and terrorize the citizens of a small town for years. One day the comment of a saleswom… |
| To the Moon, Alice | Frank Wiliker | 1991-10-02 | A homeless family of three sleeps on a TV production stage, by day looking for a job. One day somebody finds them…. |
| Darrow | Eugene Debs | 1991-06-08 | The life and career of Clarence Darrow, the noted American lawyer and civil libertarian…. |
| Jarhead | Lt. Col. Kazinski | 2005-11-04 | Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit… |
| The Patriot | Col. Harry Burwell | 2000-06-28 | After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the s… |
| Interstate 60 | Bob Cody | 2002-04-13 | An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America…. |
| Remember Me | Neil Craig | 2010-03-11 | Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents’ subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally … |
| Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy | Narrator (voice) | 2013-06-19 | Revisits President John F. Kennedy’s presidential legacy through 21 of the more than 800,000 condolence letters written to Jackie Kennedy after JFK’s … |
| Money Train | Torch | 1995-11-21 | When a vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares, his foster brother—a fellow cop—tries to protect him…. |
| The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | Himself (Narrator) | 2009-02-09 | Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in … |
| Alone | Gus Jr. | 1997-12-21 | John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rarely sees his daughters, Jacqueline and Grace Ann, a… |
| American Beauty | Colonel Frank Fitts | 1999-09-15 | Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daug… |
| The Horse Whisperer | Frank Booker | 1998-02-01 | The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl’s equally injured horse…. |
| The Company You Keep | Daniel Sloan | 2012-09-06 | A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity…. |
| Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize | Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage) | 2010-01-01 | A remixed narrative that combines two Jake Gyllenhaal films (Donnie Darko and Jarhead) with news footage of former President Barack Obama…. |
| The Tempest | Antonio | 2010-09-11 | An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare’s Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been ban… |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Douglas (voice) | 2009-10-16 | Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexanderâ… |
| Guilty by Suspicion | Larry Nolan | 1991-03-15 | This compelling story vividly recreates Hollywood’s infamous ‘Blacklist Era’. The witch-hunt has begun and director David Merrill can revive his stall… |
| Live by Night | Chief Irving Figgis | 2016-12-25 | A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan…. |
| American Beauty: Look Closer… | Self | 2000-10-24 | A promotional short documentary on the making of the film American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball…. |
| Making Capote: Concept to Script | Self | 2006-03-21 | Featurette on the making of Capote (2005)…. |
| Me, Myself & Irene | Lieutenant Gerke | 2000-06-22 | Rhode Island State Trooper Charlie Baileygates has a multiple personality disorder. One personality is crazy and aggressive, while the other is more f… |
| Fastball | Clifford Blankenship (voice) | 2016-03-25 | Since 1912, baseball has been a game obsessed with statistics and speed. Thrown at upwards of 100 miles per hour, a fastball moves too quickly for hum… |
| Boys | Mr. John Baker | 1996-05-10 | Fed up with boarding school and frustrated with the way others have planned his life, John Baker Jr. wants a change — anything to shake up his staid … |
| Capote | Alvin Dewey | 2005-09-30 | A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book “In Cold Blood”…. |
| The Town | Stephen MacRay | 2010-09-15 | Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the grou… |
| New York, I Love You | Alex (segment “Yvan Attal”) | 2008-09-06 | New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond Dist… |
| It Takes a Lunatic | Himself | 2019-05-03 | The extraordinary life of beloved acting teacher and theatre producer Wynn Handman is recalled in this portrait of a provocative, innovative artist…. |
| With/In Volume 2 | (segment “Nuts”) | 2021-06-14 | Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directo… |
| Little Women | Mr. Laurence | 2019-12-25 | Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War…. |
| A Time to Kill | Dwayne Looney | 1996-07-24 | A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK…. |
| City of Hope | Riggs | 1991-10-11 | This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who … |
| Extreme Movie | FBI Agent Mike | 2008-12-05 | A sketch comedy movie about the joys and embarrassments of teen sex. But mostly the embarrassments…. |
| The Bourne Supremacy | Alexander Conklin | 2004-07-23 | When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne … |
| The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Norman Osborn (uncredited) | 2014-04-16 | For Peter Parker, life is busy. Between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen Stacy, high school grad… |
Chris Cooper Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| With/In Volume 2 | Director | 2021-06-14 | Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directo… |
| With/In | Director | 2022-03-15 | An anthology film that centres around relationships, love and family. A man misses his flight and instead finds love in quarantine, a lonely therapist… |
Chris Cooper Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Intelligent Lives | Executive Producer | 2018-04-01 | Three pioneering young adults with intellectual disabilities – Micah, Naieer, and Naomie – challenge perceptions of intelligence as they navigate high… |
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