Chris Cooper
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.
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Movies (48)
Unscripted Lives
Executive Producer (Production)
2025
The History of Sound
as Older Lionel
2025
Everything's Going to Be Great
as Walter
2025
Boston Strangler
as Jack Maclaine
2023
With/In Volume 2
2022
With/In Volume 2
as (segment "Nuts")
2021
Irresistible
as Jack Hastings
2020
Little Women
as Mr. Laurence
2019
Them That Work
as Self
2019
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
as Jerry Vogel
2019
It Takes a Lunatic
as Self
2019
Henrietta Bulkowski
as Danny Wilcox
2019
Intelligent Lives
as Self
2018
Cars 3
as Smokey (voice)
2017
Live by Night
as Chief Irving Figgis
2016
Coming Through the Rye
as J.D. Salinger
2016
Demolition
as Phil Eastwood
2016
Fastball
as Clifford Blankenship (voice)
2016
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
as Norman Osborn (uncredited)
2014
August: Osage County
as Charlie Aiken
2013
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2013
The Company You Keep
as Daniel Sloan
2012
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
as Gary (voice)
2012
The Muppets
as Tex Richman
2011
Amigo
as Col. Hardacre
2011
The Company Men
as Phil Woodward
2010
The Town
as Stephen MacRay
2010
The Tempest
as Antonio
2010
Remember Me
as Neil Craig
2010
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
as Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
2010
Where the Wild Things Are
as Douglas (voice)
2009
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
as Himself (Narrator)
2009
Extreme Movie
as FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
2008
New York, I Love You
as Alex
2008
Walt Whitman
as Walt Whitman (voice)
2008
Married Life
as Harry Allen
2008
The Kingdom
as Grant Sykes
2007
Breach
as Robert Hanssen
2007
Primo Levi's Journey
as Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
2006
Making Capote: Concept to Script
as Self
2006
Syriana
as Jimmy Pope
2005
Jarhead
as Lt. Col. Kazinski
2005
Capote
as Alvin Dewey
2005
The Making of 'Seabiscuit'
as Self
2004
Silver City
as Dickie Pilager
2004
The Bourne Supremacy
as Alexander Conklin (uncredited)
2004
Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend
as Self
2003
Seabiscuit
as Tom Smith
2003
