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Chris Cooper

Born 1951-07-09
📍 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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Filmography 87

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
Homecoming
as Leonard Geist
2018
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
11.22.63
as Al Templeton
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
Silver City
as Dickie Pilager
2004
The Bourne Supremacy
as Alexander Conklin (uncredited)
2004
Seabiscuit
as Tom Smith
2003
My House in Umbria
as Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
2003
Adaptation.
as John Laroche
2002
The Bourne Identity
as Alexander Conklin
2002
Interstate 60
as Bob Cody
2002
American Beauty: Look Closer...
as Self
2000
The Patriot
as Col. Harry Burwell
2000
Me, Myself & Irene
as Lieutenant Gerke
2000
American Beauty
as Colonel Fitts
1999
Teen Choice Awards
as Self
1999
October Sky
as John Hickam
1999
The 24 Hour Woman
as Ron Hacksby
1999
The Horse Whisperer
as Frank Booker
1998
Great Expectations
as Joe
1998
Alone
as Gus Jr.
1997
Breast Men
as Dr. William Larson
1997
A Time to Kill
as Dwayne Looney
1996
Lone Star
as Sam Deeds
1996
Boys
as Mr. John Baker
1996
The Deliverance of Elaine
as Charlie Skyler
1996
Money Train
as Torch
1995
Pharaoh's Army
as Captain John Hull Abston
1995
One More Mountain
as Jack Reed
1994
Return to Lonesome Dove
as July Johnson
1993
This Boy's Life
as Roy
1993
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
as Anthony Blessing
1992
Bed of Lies
as Price Daniel, Jr.
1992
City of Hope
as Riggs
1991
Darrow
as Eugene Debs
1991
Thousand Pieces of Gold
as Charlie
1991
Guilty by Suspicion
as Larry Nolan
1991
In Broad Daylight
as Jack Wilson
1991
A Little Piece of Sunshine
as Ernie Favaro
1990
Law & Order
as Defense Attorney Roy Payne
1990
Lonesome Dove
as July Johnson
1989
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
1988
Matewan
as Joe Kenehan
1987
The Equalizer
as Michael
1985
Miami Vice
as Jimmy Yagovitch
1984
Bad Timing
as Eddie
1982
The Oscars
as Self
1953