Chris Cooper
Acting • Born 1951-07-09
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
92 credits
American Beauty
Movie • 1999
Colonel Fitts
Jarhead
Movie • 2005
Lt. Col. Kazinski
Syriana
Movie • 2005
Jimmy Pope
Capote
Movie • 2005
Alvin Dewey
The Horse Whisperer
Movie • 1998
Frank Booker
Me, Myself & Irene
Movie • 2000
Lieutenant Gerke
A Time to Kill
Movie • 1996
Dwayne Looney
City of Hope
Movie • 1991
Riggs
The Bourne Identity
Movie • 2002
Alexander Conklin
The Patriot
Movie • 2000
Col. Harry Burwell
Adaptation.
Movie • 2002
John Laroche
Breach
Movie • 2007
Robert Hanssen
The Kingdom
Movie • 2007
Grant Sykes
Seabiscuit
Movie • 2003
Tom Smith
Interstate 60
Movie • 2002
Bob Cody
The Town
Movie • 2010
Stephen MacRay
Remember Me
Movie • 2010
Neil Craig
Matewan
Movie • 1987
Joe Kenehan
Married Life
Movie • 2008
Harry Allen
This Boy's Life
Movie • 1993
Roy
Great Expectations
Movie • 1998
Joe
Lone Star
Movie • 1996
Sam Deeds
October Sky
Movie • 1999
John Hickam
Boston Strangler
Movie • 2023
Jack Maclaine
My House in Umbria
Movie • 2003
Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
The Tempest
Movie • 2010
Antonio
The Company Men
Movie • 2010
Phil Woodward
Where the Wild Things Are
Movie • 2009
Douglas (voice)
Silver City
Movie • 2004
Dickie Pilager
Everything's Going to Be Great
Movie • 2025
Walter
Breast Men
Movie • 1997
Dr. William Larson
Primo Levi's Journey
Movie • 2006
Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
With/In Volume 2
Movie • 2022
Amigo
Movie • 2011
Col. Hardacre
Pharaoh's Army
Movie • 1995
Captain John Hull Abston
The Company You Keep
Movie • 2012
Daniel Sloan
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Movie • 2014
Norman Osborn (uncredited)
Thousand Pieces of Gold
Movie • 1991
Charlie
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Movie • 2012
Gary (voice)
August: Osage County
Movie • 2013
Charlie Aiken
In Broad Daylight
Movie • 1991
Jack Wilson
Making Capote: Concept to Script
Movie • 2006
Self
Light on Broken Glass
Movie
Jay
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Movie • 2013
Self - Narrator (voice)
Money Train
Movie • 1995
Torch
New York, I Love You
Movie • 2008
Alex
Guilty by Suspicion
Movie • 1991
Larry Nolan
Demolition
Movie • 2016
Phil Eastwood
The Muppets
Movie • 2011
Tex Richman
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
Movie • 1992
Anthony Blessing
Bad Timing
Movie • 1982
Eddie
Coming Through the Rye
Movie • 2016
J.D. Salinger
Intelligent Lives
Movie • 2018
Self
Live by Night
Movie • 2016
Chief Irving Figgis
Fastball
Movie • 2016
Clifford Blankenship (voice)
One More Mountain
Movie • 1994
Jack Reed
The Bourne Supremacy
Movie • 2004
Alexander Conklin (uncredited)
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Movie • 2010
Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
Cars 3
Movie • 2017
Smokey (voice)
Boys
Movie • 1996
Mr. John Baker
A Little Piece of Sunshine
Movie • 1990
Ernie Favaro
Little Women
Movie • 2019
Mr. Laurence
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Movie • 2019
Jerry Vogel
Irresistible
Movie • 2020
Jack Hastings
Them That Work
Movie • 2019
Self
It Takes a Lunatic
Movie • 2019
Self
Bed of Lies
Movie • 1992
Price Daniel, Jr.
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Movie • 2009
Himself (Narrator)
To the Moon, Alice
Movie • 1991
Frank Wiliker
Henrietta Bulkowski
Movie • 2019
Danny Wilcox
American Beauty: Look Closer...
Movie • 2000
Self
The Deliverance of Elaine
Movie • 1996
Charlie Skyler
Darrow
Movie • 1991
Eugene Debs
Extreme Movie
Movie • 2008
FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
Walt Whitman
Movie • 2008
Walt Whitman (voice)
With/In Volume 2
Movie • 2021
(segment "Nuts")
Alone
Movie • 1997
Gus Jr.
The History of Sound
Movie • 2025
Older Lionel
The Making of 'Seabiscuit'
Movie • 2004
Self
'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend
Movie • 2003
Self
Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend
Movie • 2003
Self
The 24 Hour Woman
Movie • 1999
Ron Hacksby
Return to Lonesome Dove
TV • 1993
July Johnson
Lonesome Dove
TV • 1989
July Johnson
11.22.63
TV • 2016
Al Templeton
American Experience
TV • 1988
Narrator (voice)
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Defense Attorney Roy Payne
Teen Choice Awards
TV • 1999
Self
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Miami Vice
TV • 1984
Jimmy Yagovitch
The Equalizer
TV • 1985
Michael
Homecoming
TV • 2018
Leonard Geist