Chris Cooper
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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
Credits
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
as Norman Osborn (uncredited)
Cars 3 (2017)
as Smokey (voice)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
as Alexander Conklin
The Town (2010)
as Stephen MacRay
American Beauty (1999)
as Colonel Fitts
Little Women (2019)
as Mr. Laurence
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
as Alexander Conklin (uncredited)
The Patriot (2000)
as Col. Harry Burwell
The Kingdom (2007)
as Grant Sykes
A Time to Kill (1996)
as Dwayne Looney
Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
as Lieutenant Gerke
The Muppets (2011)
as Tex Richman
Demolition (2016)
as Phil Eastwood
Jarhead (2005)
as Lt. Col. Kazinski
Great Expectations (1998)
as Joe
Adaptation. (2002)
as John Laroche
Remember Me (2010)
as Neil Craig
Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
as Douglas (voice)
New York, I Love You (2008)
as Alex
Live by Night (2016)
as Chief Irving Figgis
The Horse Whisperer (1998)
as Frank Booker
October Sky (1999)
as John Hickam
August: Osage County (2013)
as Charlie Aiken
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
as Jerry Vogel
This Boy's Life (1993)
as Roy
Syriana (2005)
as Jimmy Pope
The History of Sound (2025)
as Older Lionel
Seabiscuit (2003)
as Tom Smith
The Company Men (2010)
as Phil Woodward
Breach (2007)
as Robert Hanssen
Guilty by Suspicion (1991)
as Larry Nolan
Interstate 60 (2002)
as Bob Cody
Boston Strangler (2023)
as Jack Maclaine
Extreme Movie (2008)
as FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
The Company You Keep (2012)
as Daniel Sloan
Capote (2005)
as Alvin Dewey
Irresistible (2020)
as Jack Hastings
Money Train (1995)
as Torch
Married Life (2008)
as Harry Allen
Matewan (1987)
as Joe Kenehan
Intelligent Lives (2018)
as Self
The Tempest (2010)
as Antonio
Boys (1996)
as Mr. John Baker
Pharaoh's Army (1995)
as Captain John Hull Abston
Lone Star (1996)
as Sam Deeds
Thousand Pieces of Gold (1991)
as Charlie
American Beauty: Look Closer... (2000)
as Self
City of Hope (1991)
as Riggs
Amigo (2011)
as Col. Hardacre
Everything's Going to Be Great (2025)
as Walter
My House in Umbria (2003)
as Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
It Takes a Lunatic (2019)
as Self
In Broad Daylight (1991)
as Jack Wilson
To the Moon, Alice (1991)
as Frank Wiliker
Henrietta Bulkowski (2019)
as Danny Wilcox
Coming Through the Rye (2016)
as J.D. Salinger
With/In Volume 2 (2021)
as (segment "Nuts")
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy (2013)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)
as Gary (voice)
The 24 Hour Woman (1999)
as Ron Hacksby
A Little Piece of Sunshine (1990)
as Ernie Favaro
Silver City (2004)
as Dickie Pilager
Breast Men (1997)
as Dr. William Larson
Primo Levi's Journey (2006)
as Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
Light on Broken Glass (—)
as Jay
Fastball (2016)
as Clifford Blankenship (voice)
One More Mountain (1994)
as Jack Reed
Darrow (1991)
as Eugene Debs
Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend (2003)
as Self
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life (1992)
as Anthony Blessing
'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend (2003)
as Self
The Making of 'Seabiscuit' (2004)
as Self
Bed of Lies (1992)
as Price Daniel, Jr.
Alone (1997)
as Gus Jr.
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (2010)
as Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
I Passed This Way (—)
Actor
The Deliverance of Elaine (1996)
as Charlie Skyler
Making Capote: Concept to Script (2006)
as Self
Bad Timing (1982)
as Eddie
Walt Whitman (2008)
as Walt Whitman (voice)
Them That Work (2019)
as Self
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (2009)
as Himself (Narrator)