Chris Cooper
Biography
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).
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Acting (77 movies)
American Beauty
1999
Jarhead
2005
Syriana
2005
Capote
2005
The Horse Whisperer
1998
Me, Myself & Irene
2000
A Time to Kill
1996
City of Hope
1991
The Bourne Identity
2002
The Patriot
2000
Adaptation.
2002
Breach
2007
The Kingdom
2007
Seabiscuit
2003
Interstate 60
2002
The Town
2010
Remember Me
2010
Matewan
1987
Married Life
2008
This Boy's Life
1993
Great Expectations
1998
Lone Star
1996
October Sky
1999
Boston Strangler
2023
My House in Umbria
2003
The Tempest
2010
The Company Men
2010
Where the Wild Things Are
2009
Silver City
2004
Everything's Going to Be Great
2025
Breast Men
1997
Primo Levi's Journey
2006
With/In Volume 2
2022
Amigo
2011
Pharaoh's Army
1995
The Company You Keep
2012
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
Thousand Pieces of Gold
1991
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
August: Osage County
2013
In Broad Daylight
1991
Making Capote: Concept to Script
2006
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013
Money Train
1995
New York, I Love You
2008
Guilty by Suspicion
1991
Demolition
2016
The Muppets
2011
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
1992
Bad Timing
1982
Coming Through the Rye
2016
Intelligent Lives
2018
Live by Night
2016
Fastball
2016
One More Mountain
1994
The Bourne Supremacy
2004
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
2010
Cars 3
2017
Boys
1996
A Little Piece of Sunshine
1990
Little Women
2019
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2019
Irresistible
2020
Them That Work
2019
It Takes a Lunatic
2019
Bed of Lies
1992
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
2009
Henrietta Bulkowski
2019
American Beauty: Look Closer...
2000
The Deliverance of Elaine
1996
Darrow
1991
Extreme Movie
2008
Walt Whitman
2008
With/In Volume 2
2021
Alone
1997
The History of Sound
2025
The 24 Hour Woman
1999
Directing (2 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligent Lives | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| Unscripted Lives | 2025 | Executive Producer |