Chris Cooper
Born
July 9, 1951 (73 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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
Everything's Going to Be Great
Walter
2025
Boston Strangler
Jack Maclaine
2023
With/In Volume 2
2022
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Norman Osborn (uncredited)
2014
August: Osage County
Charlie Aiken
2013
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Narrator (voice)
2013
The Company You Keep
Daniel Sloan
2012
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Gary (voice)
2012
Amigo
Col. Hardacre
2011
The Company Men
Phil Woodward
2010
The Town
Stephen MacRay
2010
The Tempest
Antonio
2010
Remember Me
Neil Craig
2010
Where the Wild Things Are
Douglas (voice)
2009
Married Life
Harry Allen
2008
The Kingdom
Grant Sykes
2007
Breach
Robert Hanssen
2007
Primo Levi's Journey
Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
2006
Making Capote: Concept to Script
Self
2006
Syriana
Jimmy Pope
2005
Jarhead
Lt. Col. Kazinski
2005
Capote
Alvin Dewey
2005
Silver City
Dickie Pilager
2004
Seabiscuit
Tom Smith
2003
My House in Umbria
Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
2003
Adaptation.
John Laroche
2002
The Bourne Identity
Alexander Conklin
2002
Interstate 60
Bob Cody
2002
The Patriot
Col. Harry Burwell
2000
Me, Myself & Irene
Lieutenant Gerke
2000
American Beauty
Colonel Fitts
1999
October Sky
John Hickam
1999
The Horse Whisperer
Frank Booker
1998
Great Expectations
Joe
1998
Breast Men
Dr. William Larson
1997
A Time to Kill
Dwayne Looney
1996
Lone Star
Sam Deeds
1996
Pharaoh's Army
Captain John Hull Abston
1995
This Boy's Life
Roy
1993
City of Hope
Riggs
1991
Thousand Pieces of Gold
Charlie
1991
In Broad Daylight
Jack Wilson
1991
Matewan
Joe Kenehan
1987
Light on Broken Glass
Jay
The History of Sound
Older Lionel
2025
With/In Volume 2
(segment "Nuts")
2021
Irresistible
Jack Hastings
2020
Little Women
Mr. Laurence
2019
Them That Work
Self
2019
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Jerry Vogel
2019
It Takes a Lunatic
Self
2019
Henrietta Bulkowski
Danny Wilcox
2019
Homecoming
Leonard Geist · (7 episodes)
2018
Intelligent Lives
Self
2018
Cars 3
Smokey (voice)
2017
Live by Night
Chief Irving Figgis
2016
Coming Through the Rye
J.D. Salinger
2016
Demolition
Phil Eastwood
2016
Fastball
Clifford Blankenship (voice)
2016
11.22.63
Al Templeton · (8 episodes)
2016
The Muppets
Tex Richman
2011
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
2010
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Himself (Narrator)
2009
Extreme Movie
FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
2008
New York, I Love You
Alex
2008
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman (voice)
2008
The Bourne Supremacy
Alexander Conklin
2004
American Beauty: Look Closer...
Self
2000
Teen Choice Awards
Self - Nominee · (1 episode)
1999
Alone
Gus Jr.
1997
Boys
Mr. John Baker
1996
The Deliverance of Elaine
Charlie Skyler
1996
Money Train
Torch
1995
One More Mountain
Jack Reed
1994
Return to Lonesome Dove
July Johnson · (4 episodes)
1993
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
Anthony Blessing
1992
Bed of Lies
Price Daniel, Jr.
1992
To the Moon, Alice
Frank Wiliker
1991
Darrow
Eugene Debs
1991
Guilty by Suspicion
Larry Nolan
1991
A Little Piece of Sunshine
Ernie Favaro
1990
Law & Order
Defense Attorney Roy Payne · (1 episode)
1990
Lonesome Dove
July Johnson · (4 episodes)
1989
American Experience
Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)
1988
The Equalizer
Michael · (1 episode)
1985
Miami Vice
Jimmy Yagovitch · (1 episode)
1984
Bad Timing
1982
The Oscars
Self · (1 episode)
1953