Chris Cooper
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
as Norman Osborn (uncredited)
Cars 3 (2017)
as Smokey (voice)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
as Alexander Conklin
American Beauty (1999)
as Colonel Fitts
Little Women (2019)
as Mr. Laurence
The Town (2010)
as Stephen MacRay
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
as Alexander Conklin (uncredited)
The Patriot (2000)
as Col. Harry Burwell
Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
as Lieutenant Gerke
Jarhead (2005)
as Lt. Col. Kazinski
A Time to Kill (1996)
as Dwayne Looney
Demolition (2016)
as Phil Eastwood
New York, I Love You (2008)
as Alex
The Muppets (2011)
as Tex Richman
The Kingdom (2007)
as Grant Sykes
Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
as Douglas (voice)
Adaptation. (2002)
as John Laroche
Syriana (2005)
as Jimmy Pope
Great Expectations (1998)
as Joe
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
as Jerry Vogel
This Boy's Life (1993)
as Roy
Money Train (1995)
as Torch
Boston Strangler (2023)
as Jack Maclaine
August: Osage County (2013)
as Charlie Aiken
Live by Night (2016)
as Chief Irving Figgis
Guilty by Suspicion (1991)
as Larry Nolan
The History of Sound (2025)
as Older Lionel
Remember Me (2010)
as Neil Craig
October Sky (1999)
as John Hickam
The Company You Keep (2012)
as Daniel Sloan
Breach (2007)
as Robert Hanssen
The Horse Whisperer (1998)
as Frank Booker
Extreme Movie (2008)
as FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
Interstate 60 (2002)
as Bob Cody
Capote (2005)
as Alvin Dewey
Seabiscuit (2003)
as Tom Smith
Irresistible (2020)
as Jack Hastings
The Company Men (2010)
as Phil Woodward
Lone Star (1996)
as Sam Deeds
Married Life (2008)
as Harry Allen
The Tempest (2010)
as Antonio
Matewan (1987)
as Joe Kenehan
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy (2013)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Breast Men (1997)
as Dr. William Larson
Amigo (2011)
as Col. Hardacre
Everything's Going to Be Great (2025)
as Walter
Boys (1996)
as Mr. John Baker
My House in Umbria (2003)
as Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
Bed of Lies (1992)
as Price Daniel, Jr.
City of Hope (1991)
as Riggs
Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend (2003)
as Self
Silver City (2004)
as Dickie Pilager
Coming Through the Rye (2016)
as J.D. Salinger
Pharaoh's Army (1995)
as Captain John Hull Abston
With/In Volume 2 (2021)
as (segment "Nuts")
To The Moon, Alice (1991)
as Frank Wiliker
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)
as Gary (voice)
One More Mountain (1994)
as Jack Reed
A Little Piece of Sunshine (1990)
as Ernie Favaro
I Passed This Way (—)
Actor
Thousand Pieces of Gold (1991)
as Charlie
'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend (2003)
as Self
In Broad Daylight (1991)
as Jack Wilson
It Takes a Lunatic (2019)
as Self
Alone (1997)
as Gus Jr.
American Beauty: Look Closer... (2000)
as Self
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (2009)
as Himself (Narrator)
Walt Whitman (2008)
as Walt Whitman (voice)
Fastball (2016)
as Clifford Blankenship (voice)
Darrow (1991)
as Eugene Debs
The 24 Hour Woman (1999)
as Ron Hacksby
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life (1992)
as Anthony Blessing
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (2010)
as Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
The Deliverance of Elaine (1996)
as Charlie Skyler
Intelligent Lives (2018)
as Self
The Making of 'Seabiscuit' (2004)
as Self
Primo Levi's Journey (2006)
as Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
Them That Work (2019)
as Self
Bad Timing (1982)
as Eddie
Light on Broken Glass (—)
as Jay
Henrietta Bulkowski (2019)
as Danny Wilcox
Making Capote: Concept to Script (2006)
as Self