Chris Cooper
Actor
Born July 9, 1951 in 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.
Filmography
Unscripted Lives
The History of Sound
Older Lionel
Everything's Going to Be Great
Walter
Boston Strangler
Jack Maclaine
With/In Volume 2
(segment "Nuts")
Irresistible
Jack Hastings
Little Women
Mr. Laurence
Them That Work
Self
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Jerry Vogel
It Takes a Lunatic
Self
Henrietta Bulkowski
Danny Wilcox
Homecoming
Leonard Geist
Intelligent Lives
Self
Cars 3
Smokey (voice)
Live by Night
Chief Irving Figgis
Coming Through the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Demolition
Phil Eastwood
Fastball
Clifford Blankenship (voice)
11.22.63
Al Templeton
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Norman Osborn (uncredited)
August: Osage County
Charlie Aiken
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Company You Keep
Daniel Sloan
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Gary (voice)
The Muppets
Tex Richman
Amigo
Col. Hardacre
The Company Men
Phil Woodward
The Town
Stephen MacRay
The Tempest
Antonio
Remember Me
Neil Craig
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
Where the Wild Things Are
Douglas (voice)
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Himself (Narrator)
Extreme Movie
FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
New York, I Love You
Alex
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman (voice)
Married Life
Harry Allen
The Kingdom
Grant Sykes
Breach
Robert Hanssen
Primo Levi's Journey
Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
Making Capote: Concept to Script
Self
Syriana
Jimmy Pope
Jarhead
Lt. Col. Kazinski
Capote
Alvin Dewey
Silver City
Dickie Pilager
The Bourne Supremacy
Alexander Conklin (uncredited)
Seabiscuit
Tom Smith
My House in Umbria
Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
Adaptation.
John Laroche
The Bourne Identity
Alexander Conklin
Interstate 60
Bob Cody
American Beauty: Look Closer...
Self
The Patriot
Col. Harry Burwell
Me, Myself & Irene
Lieutenant Gerke
American Beauty
Colonel Fitts
Teen Choice Awards
Self
October Sky
John Hickam
The 24 Hour Woman
Ron Hacksby
The Horse Whisperer
Frank Booker
Great Expectations
Joe
Alone
Gus Jr.
Breast Men
Dr. William Larson
A Time to Kill
Dwayne Looney
Lone Star
Sam Deeds
Boys
Mr. John Baker
The Deliverance of Elaine
Charlie Skyler
Money Train
Torch
Pharaoh's Army
Captain John Hull Abston
One More Mountain
Jack Reed
Return to Lonesome Dove
July Johnson
This Boy's Life
Roy
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
Anthony Blessing
Bed of Lies
Price Daniel, Jr.
City of Hope
Riggs
Darrow
Eugene Debs
Thousand Pieces of Gold
Charlie
Guilty by Suspicion
Larry Nolan
In Broad Daylight
Jack Wilson
A Little Piece of Sunshine
Ernie Favaro
Law & Order
Defense Attorney Roy Payne
Lonesome Dove
July Johnson
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
Matewan
Joe Kenehan
The Equalizer
Michael
Miami Vice
Jimmy Yagovitch
Bad Timing
Eddie
American Playhouse
Louis Halladay
The Oscars
Self