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