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