
Chris Cooper
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.
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Films
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TV Shows
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Crew Credits
Known For
87 Credits
Law & Order
as Defense Attorney Roy Payne
1990

Miami Vice
as Jimmy Yagovitch
1984

American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
1988

The Equalizer
as Michael
1985

Lonesome Dove
as July Johnson
1989

The Oscars
as Self
1953

Cars 3
as Smokey (voice)
2017

11.22.63
as Al Templeton
2016

The Amazing Spider-Man 2
as Norman Osborn (uncredited)
2014

American Beauty
as Colonel Fitts
1999

The Bourne Identity
as Alexander Conklin
2002

Homecoming
as Leonard Geist
2018

