Chris Cooper
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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Known for
Law & Order
Defense Attorney Roy Payne
Miami Vice
Jimmy Yagovitch
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Norman Osborn (uncredited)
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
The Equalizer
Michael
Cars 3
Smokey (voice)
The Bourne Identity
Alexander Conklin
Everything's Going to Be Great
Walter
The Muppets
Tex Richman
Little Women
Mr. Laurence
The Town
Stephen MacRay
The Bourne Supremacy
Alexander Conklin (uncredited)
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
11.22.63
Al Templeton
A Time to Kill
Dwayne Looney
The Oscars
Self
American Beauty
Colonel Fitts
With/In Volume 2
(segment "Nuts")
The Patriot
Col. Harry Burwell
Me, Myself & Irene
Lieutenant Gerke
Remember Me
Neil Craig
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Self - Narrator (voice)
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Jerry Vogel
With/In Volume 2
Homecoming
Leonard Geist
Breach
Robert Hanssen
Jarhead
Lt. Col. Kazinski
Lonesome Dove
July Johnson
Interstate 60
Bob Cody
Making Capote: Concept to Script
Self
Coming Through the Rye
J.D. Salinger
The Horse Whisperer
Frank Booker
The Tempest
Antonio
Primo Levi's Journey
Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Himself (Narrator)
The History of Sound
Older Lionel
The Kingdom
Grant Sykes
This Boy's Life
Roy
Demolition
Phil Eastwood
Guilty by Suspicion
Larry Nolan
Where the Wild Things Are
Douglas (voice)
Boston Strangler
Jack Maclaine
Money Train
Torch
October Sky
John Hickam
Syriana
Jimmy Pope
New York, I Love You
Alex
Great Expectations
Joe
Adaptation.
John Laroche
It Takes a Lunatic
Self
Seabiscuit
Tom Smith
The 24 Hour Woman
Ron Hacksby
Lone Star
Sam Deeds
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Gary (voice)
The Company You Keep
Daniel Sloan
Capote
Alvin Dewey
Irresistible
Jack Hastings
Live by Night
Chief Irving Figgis
Return to Lonesome Dove
July Johnson
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
Anthony Blessing
City of Hope
Riggs
The Deliverance of Elaine
Charlie Skyler
The Company Men
Phil Woodward
August: Osage County
Charlie Aiken
Henrietta Bulkowski
Danny Wilcox
Extreme Movie
FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
My House in Umbria
Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
Married Life
Harry Allen
Matewan
Joe Kenehan
'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend
Self
Light on Broken Glass
Jay
Breast Men
Dr. William Larson
Fastball
Clifford Blankenship (voice)
Silver City
Dickie Pilager
The Making of 'Seabiscuit'
Self
Alone
Gus Jr.
Them That Work
Self
Amigo
Col. Hardacre
Boys
Mr. John Baker
Darrow
Eugene Debs
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman (voice)
A Little Piece of Sunshine
Ernie Favaro
Pharaoh's Army
Captain John Hull Abston
American Beauty: Look Closer...
Self
Bad Timing
Eddie
Intelligent Lives
Self
Thousand Pieces of Gold
Charlie
To the Moon, Alice
Frank Wiliker
Bed of Lies
Price Daniel, Jr.
In Broad Daylight
Jack Wilson
Teen Choice Awards
Self
One More Mountain
Jack Reed
Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend
Self