
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 |