Chris Cooper
Birthday: 1951-07-09 | Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USAChristopher 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
Acting
Role
as Jack Hastings
as Jerry Vogel
as Leonard Geist
as Smokey Yunick (voice)
as Al Templeton
as Al Templeton
as Chief Irving Figgis
as Clifford Blankenship (voice)
as J.D. Salinger
as Phil Eastwood
as Charlie Aiken
as Daniel Sloan
as Narrator (voice)
as Gary (voice)
as Tex Richman
as Antonio
as Col. Hardacre
as Neil Craig
as Phil Woodward
as Stephen MacRay
as Alex
as Douglas (voice)
as Grant Sykes
as Harry Allen
as Robert Hanssen
as Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
as Alvin Dewey
as Lt. Col. Kazinski
