Chris Cooper
Known for Acting · 93 credits
- Born
- 1951-07-09 (age 75)
- Place of birth
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Biography
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
TV Shows (11)
Law & Order
1990
as Defense Attorney Roy Payne
American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)
Miami Vice
1984
as Jimmy Yagovitch
American Playhouse
1982
as Louis Halladay / Charlie Bemis / Eugene Debs
The Equalizer
1985
as Michael
The Oscars
1953
as Self
11.22.63
2016
as Al Templeton
Homecoming
2018
as Leonard Geist
Lonesome Dove
1989
as July Johnson
Return to Lonesome Dove
1993
as July Johnson
Teen Choice Awards
1999
as Self
Movies (82)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
as Norman Osborn (uncredited)
Cars 3
2017
as Smokey (voice)
The Town
2010
as Stephen MacRay
Little Women
2019
as Mr. Laurence
The Bourne Identity
2002
as Alexander Conklin
American Beauty
1999
as Colonel Fitts
The Kingdom
2007
as Grant Sykes
The Bourne Supremacy
2004
as Alexander Conklin (uncredited)
The Patriot
2000
as Col. Harry Burwell
Me, Myself & Irene
2000
as Lieutenant Gerke
Demolition
2016
as Phil Eastwood
A Time to Kill
1996
as Dwayne Looney
The Muppets
2011
as Tex Richman
Jarhead
2005
as Lt. Col. Kazinski
Remember Me
2010
as Neil Craig
August: Osage County
2013
as Charlie Aiken
October Sky
1999
as John Hickam
Live by Night
2016
as Chief Irving Figgis
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2019
as Jerry Vogel
The History of Sound
2025
as Older Lionel
Where the Wild Things Are
2009
as Douglas (voice)
New York, I Love You
2008
as Alex
Breach
2007
as Robert Hanssen
The Horse Whisperer
1998
as Frank Booker
Adaptation.
2002
as John Laroche
Great Expectations
1998
as Joe
Syriana
2005
as Jimmy Pope
Boston Strangler
2023
as Jack Maclaine
This Boy's Life
1993
as Roy
The Company You Keep
2012
as Daniel Sloan
Seabiscuit
2003
as Tom Smith
Extreme Movie
2008
as FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
Interstate 60
2002
as Bob Cody
Money Train
1995
as Torch
The Company Men
2010
as Phil Woodward
Irresistible
2020
as Jack Hastings
Capote
2005
as Alvin Dewey
Amigo
2011
as Col. Hardacre
Guilty by Suspicion
1991
as Larry Nolan
Pharaoh's Army
1995
as Captain John Hull Abston
Matewan
1987
as Joe Kenehan
Boys
1996
as Mr. John Baker
Married Life
2008
as Harry Allen
American Beauty: Look Closer...
2000
as Self
The Tempest
2010
as Antonio
Lone Star
1996
as Sam Deeds
Henrietta Bulkowski
2019
as Danny Wilcox
City of Hope
1991
as Riggs
Thousand Pieces of Gold
1991
as Charlie
Intelligent Lives
2018
as Self
To the Moon, Alice
1991
as Frank Wiliker
A Little Piece of Sunshine
1990
as Ernie Favaro
Coming Through the Rye
2016
as J.D. Salinger
It Takes a Lunatic
2019
as Self
Everything's Going to Be Great
2025
as Walter
My House in Umbria
2003
as Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
Breast Men
1997
as Dr. William Larson
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
1992
as Anthony Blessing
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
as Gary (voice)
With/In Volume 2
2021
as (segment "Nuts")
Silver City
2004
as Dickie Pilager
The Making of 'Seabiscuit'
2004
as Self
The 24 Hour Woman
1999
as Ron Hacksby
One More Mountain
1994
as Jack Reed
Darrow
1991
as Eugene Debs
In Broad Daylight
1991
as Jack Wilson
I Passed This Way
The Deliverance of Elaine
1996
as Charlie Skyler
Primo Levi's Journey
2006
as Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend
2003
as Self
Light on Broken Glass
as Jay
Bed of Lies
1992
as Price Daniel, Jr.
Alone
1997
as Gus Jr.
Fastball
2016
as Clifford Blankenship (voice)
Them That Work
2019
as Self
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
2010
as Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend
2003
as Self
Bad Timing
1982
as Eddie
Making Capote: Concept to Script
2006
as Self
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
2009
as Himself (Narrator)
Walt Whitman
2008
as Walt Whitman (voice)
About 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 on… With 93 credits spanning from 1953 to 2025, Chris Cooper has appeared in 82 films and 11 TV shows.
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- The Bourne Identity (2002) — as Alexander Conklin
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