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Chris Cooper

Chris Cooper

Birthday: 1951-07-09 | Place of Birth: 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2020
Irresistible

as    Jack Hastings

2019
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

as    Jerry Vogel

2018
Homecoming

as    Leonard Geist

2017
Cars 3

as    Smokey Yunick (voice)

2016
11.22.63

as    Al Templeton

2016
11.22.63

as    Al Templeton

2016
Live by Night

as    Chief Irving Figgis

2016
Fastball

as    Clifford Blankenship (voice)

2016
Coming Through the Rye

as    J.D. Salinger

2015
Demolition

as    Phil Eastwood

2013
August: Osage County

as    Charlie Aiken

2013
The Company You Keep

as    Daniel Sloan

2013
2012
2011
The Muppets

as    Tex Richman

2010
The Tempest

as    Antonio

2010
Amigo

as    Col. Hardacre

2010
Remember Me

as    Neil Craig

2010
The Company Men

as    Phil Woodward

2010
The Town

as    Stephen MacRay

2009
New York, I Love You

as    Alex

2009
Where the Wild Things Are

as    Douglas (voice)

2007
The Kingdom

as    Grant Sykes

2007
Married Life

as    Harry Allen

2007
Breach

as    Robert Hanssen

2006
Primo Levi's Journey

as    Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)

2005
Capote

as    Alvin Dewey

2005
Jarhead

as    Lt. Col. Kazinski