Chris Cooper

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1951-07-09 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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 Awa...

Acting

1999

American Beauty

as Colonel Fitts

2005

Jarhead

as Lt. Col. Kazinski

2005

Syriana

as Jimmy Pope

2005

Capote

as Alvin Dewey

1998

The Horse Whisperer

as Frank Booker

2000

Me, Myself & Irene

as Lieutenant Gerke

1996

A Time to Kill

as Dwayne Looney

1991

City of Hope

as Riggs

2002

The Bourne Identity

as Alexander Conklin

2000

The Patriot

as Col. Harry Burwell

2002

Adaptation.

as John Laroche

2007

Breach

as Robert Hanssen

2007

The Kingdom

as Grant Sykes

2003

Seabiscuit

as Tom Smith

2002

Interstate 60

as Bob Cody

2010

The Town

as Stephen MacRay

2010

Remember Me

as Neil Craig

1987

Matewan

as Joe Kenehan

2008

Married Life

as Harry Allen

1993

1996

Lone Star

as Sam

1999

October Sky

as John Hickam

2023

Boston Strangler

as Jack Maclaine

2003

My House in Umbria

as Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith

2010

The Tempest

as Antonio

2010

The Company Men

as Phil Woodward

2009

Where the Wild Things Are

as Douglas (voice)

2004

Silver City

as Dickie Pilager

1997

Breast Men

as Dr. William Larson

2006

Primo Levi's Journey

as Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)

2011

Amigo

as Col. Hardacre

1995

Pharaoh's Army

as Captain John Hull Abston

2012

The Company You Keep

as Daniel Sloan

2014

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

as Norman Osborn (uncredited)

2013

August: Osage County

as Charlie Aiken

1991

In Broad Daylight

as Jack Wilson

1995

Money Train

as Torch

1991

Guilty by Suspicion

as Larry Nolan

2016

Demolition

as Phil Eastwood

2011

The Muppets

as Tex Richman

2016

Coming Through the Rye

as J.D. Salinger

2016

Live by Night

as Chief Irving Figgis

2016

Fastball

as Clifford Blankenship (voice)

1994

One More Mountain

as Jack Reed

2004

The Bourne Supremacy

as Alexander Conklin

2010

2017

Cars 3

as Smokey (voice)

1996

Boys

as Mr. John Baker

1990

2019

Little Women

as Mr. Laurence

2020

Irresistible

as Jack Hastings

2019

1992

Bed of Lies

as Price Daniel, Jr.

2009

1991

To the Moon, Alice

as Frank Wiliker

2019

Henrietta Bulkowski

as Danny Wilcox

1996

The Deliverance of Elaine

as Charlie Skyler

1991

Darrow

as Eugene Debs

2008

Extreme Movie

as FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)

2008

Walt Whitman

as Walt Whitman (voice)

2021

With/In Volume 2

as (segment "Nuts")

1997

Alone

as Gus Jr.

2025

The History of Sound

as Older Lionel

Production

2021

With/In Volume 2

as Director

2022

With/In Volume 2

as Director

2018

Intelligent Lives

as Executive Producer

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