Chris Cooper
ActingChristopher 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.
Known For
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Norman Osborn (uncredited)
Cars 3
Smokey (voice)
Little Women
Mr. Laurence
American Beauty
Colonel Fitts
The Bourne Identity
Alexander Conklin
The Patriot
Col. Harry Burwell
The Town
Stephen MacRay
The History of Sound
Older Lionel
Jarhead
Lt. Col. Kazinski
The Bourne Supremacy
Alexander Conklin (uncredited)
Filmography — Acting
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Norman Osborn (uncredited)
Cars 3
Smokey (voice)
Little Women
Mr. Laurence
American Beauty
Colonel Fitts
The Bourne Identity
Alexander Conklin
The Patriot
Col. Harry Burwell
The Town
Stephen MacRay
The History of Sound
Older Lionel
Jarhead
Lt. Col. Kazinski
The Bourne Supremacy
Alexander Conklin (uncredited)
A Time to Kill
Dwayne Looney
New York, I Love You
Alex
Me, Myself & Irene
Lieutenant Gerke
Demolition
Phil Eastwood
Interstate 60
Bob Cody
August: Osage County
Charlie Aiken
Remember Me
Neil Craig
The Kingdom
Grant Sykes
The Muppets
Tex Richman
Seabiscuit
Tom Smith
The Horse Whisperer
Frank Booker
October Sky
John Hickam
This Boy's Life
Roy
Where the Wild Things Are
Douglas (voice)
Syriana
Jimmy Pope
Capote
Alvin Dewey
Money Train
Torch
Adaptation.
John Laroche
Boston Strangler
Jack Maclaine
Great Expectations
Joe
Live by Night
Chief Irving Figgis
Breach
Robert Hanssen
The Company You Keep
Daniel Sloan
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Jerry Vogel
Lone Star
Sam Deeds
Irresistible
Jack Hastings
Extreme Movie
FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
Guilty by Suspicion
Larry Nolan
The Company Men
Phil Woodward
Married Life
Harry Allen
Boys
Mr. John Baker
The Tempest
Antonio
Matewan
Joe Kenehan
Alone
Gus Jr.
Everything's Going to Be Great
Walter
Silver City
Dickie Pilager
City of Hope
Riggs
Amigo
Col. Hardacre
With/In Volume 2
(segment "Nuts")
Breast Men
Dr. William Larson
It Takes a Lunatic
Self
With/In Volume 2
Thousand Pieces of Gold
Charlie
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Self - Narrator (voice)
American Beauty: Look Closer...
Self
My House in Umbria
Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
Darrow
Eugene Debs
To the Moon, Alice
Frank Wiliker
In Broad Daylight
Jack Wilson
Bed of Lies
Price Daniel, Jr.
A Little Piece of Sunshine
Ernie Favaro
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Gary (voice)
Pharaoh's Army
Captain John Hull Abston
Fastball
Clifford Blankenship (voice)
Henrietta Bulkowski
Danny Wilcox
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
Anthony Blessing
Making Capote: Concept to Script
Self
Bad Timing
Eddie
The Making of 'Seabiscuit'
Self
Coming Through the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Light on Broken Glass
Jay
Primo Levi's Journey
Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
The Deliverance of Elaine
Charlie Skyler
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
One More Mountain
Jack Reed
The 24 Hour Woman
Ron Hacksby
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman (voice)
'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend
Self
Them That Work
Self
Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend
Self
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Himself (Narrator)
Intelligent Lives
Self