Acting
Chris Cooper
EN, IT cinema · 83 credits
Born
9 July 1951 (age 75)
Birthplace
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.
Known for
Filmography
The History of Sound
as Older Lionel
Unscripted Lives
Executive Producer
Boston Strangler
as Jack Maclaine
With/In Volume 2
as (segment "Nuts"), Director
Irresistible
as Jack Hastings
Little Women
as Mr. Laurence
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
as Jerry Vogel
Henrietta Bulkowski
as Danny Wilcox
Intelligent Lives
as Self, Executive Producer
Cars 3
as Smokey (voice)
Demolition
as Phil Eastwood
Coming Through the Rye
as J.D. Salinger
Live by Night
as Chief Irving Figgis
Fastball
as Clifford Blankenship (voice)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
as Norman Osborn (uncredited)
August: Osage County
as Charlie Aiken
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Company You Keep
as Daniel Sloan
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
as Gary (voice)
Amigo
as Col. Hardacre
The Muppets
as Tex Richman
The Town
as Stephen MacRay
Remember Me
as Neil Craig
The Tempest
as Antonio
The Company Men
as Phil Woodward
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
as Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
Where the Wild Things Are
as Douglas (voice)
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
as Himself (Narrator)
Married Life
as Harry Allen
Extreme Movie
as FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
Walt Whitman
as Walt Whitman (voice)
Breach
as Robert Hanssen
The Kingdom
as Grant Sykes
Primo Levi's Journey
as Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
Jarhead
as Lt. Col. Kazinski
Syriana
as Jimmy Pope
Capote
as Alvin Dewey
Silver City
as Dickie Pilager
The Bourne Supremacy
as Alexander Conklin (uncredited)
Seabiscuit
as Tom Smith
My House in Umbria
as Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend
2003
'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend
as Self
The Bourne Identity
as Alexander Conklin
Adaptation.
as John Laroche
Interstate 60
as Bob Cody
Me, Myself & Irene
as Lieutenant Gerke
The Patriot
as Col. Harry Burwell
American Beauty
as Colonel Fitts
October Sky
as John Hickam
The 24 Hour Woman
as Ron Hacksby
The Horse Whisperer
as Frank Booker
Breast Men
as Dr. William Larson
Alone
as Gus Jr.
A Time to Kill
as Dwayne Looney
Lone Star
as Sam Deeds
Boys
as Mr. John Baker
The Deliverance of Elaine
as Charlie Skyler
Pharaoh's Army
as Captain John Hull Abston
Money Train
as Torch
One More Mountain
as Jack Reed
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
as Anthony Blessing
Bed of Lies
as Price Daniel, Jr.
City of Hope
as Riggs
Thousand Pieces of Gold
as Charlie
In Broad Daylight
as Jack Wilson
Guilty by Suspicion
as Larry Nolan
To The Moon, Alice
as Frank Wiliker
Darrow
as Eugene Debs
A Little Piece of Sunshine
as Ernie Favaro
Matewan
as Joe Kenehan
Bad Timing
as Eddie