8.0
8.0
American Beauty
1999
as Colonel Fitts
Chris Cooper
Also known as: Christopher W. "Chris" Cooper, Christopher W. Cooper, Coop...
Acting
Born:July 9, 1951(age 75)
Birthplace:Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Nationality:United States
Education:University of Missouri, Southwest Early College Campus, Southwest High School
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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.
Filmography (79 movies)
7.9
7.9
Little Women
2019
as Mr. Laurence
7.7
7.7
October Sky
1999
as John Hickam
7.5
7.5
The Bourne Identity
2002
as Alexander Conklin
7.4
7.4
American Beauty: Look Closer...
2000
as Self
7.4
7.4
Matewan
1987
as Joe Kenehan
7.4
7.4
With/In Volume 2
2022
Director
7.4
7.4
Interstate 60
2002
as Bob Cody
7.4
7.4
A Time to Kill
1996
as Dwayne Looney
7.3
7.3
Adaptation.
2002
as John Laroche
7.3
7.3
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
as Gary (voice)
7.2
7.2
The Town
2010
as Stephen MacRay
7.2
7.2
Fastball
2016
as Clifford Blankenship (voice)
7.2
7.2
The Patriot
2000
as Col. Harry Burwell
7.1
7.1
This Boy's Life
1993
as Roy
7.1
7.1
Remember Me
2010
as Neil Craig
7.1
7.1
Seabiscuit
2003
as Tom Smith
7.0
7.0
Lone Star
1996
as Sam Deeds
7.0
7.0
Capote
2005
as Alvin Dewey
7.0
7.0
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2019
as Jerry Vogel
6.9
6.9
The Horse Whisperer
1998
as Frank Booker
6.9
6.9
Cars 3
2017
as Smokey (voice)
6.9
6.9
August: Osage County
2013
as Charlie Aiken
6.8
6.8
Demolition
2016
as Phil Eastwood
6.8
6.8
Thousand Pieces of Gold
1991
as Charlie
6.8
6.8
Pharaoh's Army
1995
as Captain John Hull Abston
6.7
6.7
The Kingdom
2007
as Grant Sykes
6.7
6.7
The Muppets
2011
as Tex Richman
6.7
6.7
Jarhead
2005
as Lt. Col. Kazinski
6.6
6.6
Boston Strangler
2023
as Jack Maclaine
6.6
6.6
Breach
2007
as Robert Hanssen
6.6
6.6
Great Expectations
1998
as Joe
6.6
6.6
Me, Myself & Irene
2000
as Lieutenant Gerke
6.6
6.6
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013
as Self - Narrator (voice)
6.5
6.5
The Company Men
2010
as Phil Woodward
6.5
6.5
Where the Wild Things Are
2009
as Douglas (voice)
6.5
6.5
Making Capote: Concept to Script
2006
as Self
6.5
6.5
Alone
1997
as Gus Jr.
6.5
6.5
Guilty by Suspicion
1991
as Larry Nolan
6.4
6.4
Syriana
2005
as Jimmy Pope
6.4
6.4
The History of Sound
2025
as Older Lionel
6.3
6.3
Live by Night
2016
as Chief Irving Figgis
6.3
6.3
Everything's Going to Be Great
2025
as Walter
6.2
6.2
Henrietta Bulkowski
2019
as Danny Wilcox
6.2
6.2
Coming Through the Rye
2016
as J.D. Salinger
6.2
6.2
The Company You Keep
2012
as Daniel Sloan
6.1
6.1
Silver City
2004
as Dickie Pilager
6.0
6.0
Irresistible
2020
as Jack Hastings
6.0
6.0
A Little Piece of Sunshine
1990
as Ernie Favaro
6.0
6.0
My House in Umbria
2003
as Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
5.9
5.9
New York, I Love You
2008
as Alex
5.9
5.9
Primo Levi's Journey
2006
as Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
5.9
5.9
Money Train
1995
as Torch
5.8
5.8
Married Life
2008
as Harry Allen
5.7
5.7
In Broad Daylight
1991
as Jack Wilson
5.3
5.3
The Tempest
2010
as Antonio
5.3
5.3
Boys
1996
as Mr. John Baker
5.3
5.3
One More Mountain
1994
as Jack Reed
5.3
5.3
Darrow
1991
as Eugene Debs
5.3
5.3
It Takes a Lunatic
2019
as Self
5.2
5.2
Breast Men
1997
as Dr. William Larson
5.0
5.0
Walt Whitman
2008
as Walt Whitman (voice)
5.0
5.0
Bed of Lies
1992
as Price Daniel, Jr.
4.8
4.8
Amigo
2011
as Col. Hardacre
4.5
4.5
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
2009
as Himself (Narrator)
4.0
4.0
With/In Volume 2
2021
Director
4.0
4.0
The Deliverance of Elaine
1996
as Charlie Skyler
3.8
3.8
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
2010
as Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
3.0
3.0
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
1992
as Anthony Blessing
3.0
3.0
The 24 Hour Woman
1999
as Ron Hacksby
Intelligent Lives
2018
Executive Producer
'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend
2003
as Self
Them That Work
2019
as Self
Light on Broken Glass
TBA
as Jay
Bad Timing
1982
The Making of 'Seabiscuit'
2004
as Self
To the Moon, Alice
1991
as Frank Wiliker
Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend
2003
as Self
Unscripted Lives
2025
Executive Producer
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