
Chris Cooper
Acting
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.
Born: July 9, 1951 · Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Filmography (73)

The History of Sound
2025

Everything's Going to Be Great
2025

Boston Strangler
2023

Irresistible
2020

Little Women
2019

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2019

It Takes a Lunatic
2019

Henrietta Bulkowski
2019

Homecoming
2018

Cars 3
2017

Live by Night
2016

Coming Through the Rye
2016

Demolition
2016

Fastball
2016

11.22.63
2016

The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014

August: Osage County
2013

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013

The Company You Keep
2012

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012

The Muppets
2011

Amigo
2011

The Company Men
2010

The Town
2010

The Tempest
2010

Remember Me
2010

Where the Wild Things Are
2009

Extreme Movie
2008

New York, I Love You
2008

Married Life
2008

The Kingdom
2007

Breach
2007

Primo Levi's Journey
2006

Syriana
2005

Jarhead
2005

Capote
2005

Silver City
2004

The Bourne Supremacy
2004

Seabiscuit
2003

My House in Umbria
2003

Adaptation.
2002

The Bourne Identity
2002

Interstate 60
2002

American Beauty: Look Closer...
2000

The Patriot
2000

Me, Myself & Irene
2000

American Beauty
1999

Teen Choice Awards
1999

October Sky
1999

The Horse Whisperer
1998

Great Expectations
1998

Alone
1997

Breast Men
1997

A Time to Kill
1996

Lone Star
1996

Boys
1996

Money Train
1995

Pharaoh's Army
1995

One More Mountain
1994

Return to Lonesome Dove
1993

This Boy's Life
1993

City of Hope
1991

Darrow
1991

Thousand Pieces of Gold
1991

Guilty by Suspicion
1991

In Broad Daylight
1991

Law & Order
1990

Lonesome Dove
1989

American Experience
1988

Matewan
1987

The Equalizer
1985

Miami Vice
1984

The Oscars
1953
