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