Chris Cooper
Born 1951
Known for The Bourne Identity, Cars 3, American Beauty.
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 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).
Movie Credits
Amigo (2010)
Breach (2007)
Lone Star (1996)
Pharaoh's Army (1995)
Matewan (1987)
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)
Married Life (2008)
October Sky (1999)
Breast Men (1997)
A Little Piece of Sunshine (1990)
Boston Strangler (2023)
Irresistible (2020)
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
Cars 3 (2017)
Demolition (2016)
Coming Through the Rye (2015)
The Muppets (2011)
The Company Men (2010)
The Kingdom (2007)
My House in Umbria (2003)
Adaptation. (2002)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Syriana (2005)
Silver City (2004)
Seabiscuit (2003)
Great Expectations (1998)
Thousand Pieces of Gold (1990)
Remember Me (2010)
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (2009)
Jarhead (2005)
Interstate 60 (2002)
The Patriot (2000)
Alone (1997)
Money Train (1995)
Everything's Going to Be Great (2025)
The History of Sound (2025)
It Takes a Lunatic (2019)
Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
The Horse Whisperer (1998)
This Boy's Life (1993)
The Company You Keep (2012)
The Tempest (2010)
Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
Guilty by Suspicion (1991)
August: Osage County (2013)
New York, I Love You (2008)
American Beauty (1999)
Fastball (2016)
Boys (1996)
The Town (2010)
Capote (2005)
Live by Night (2016)
Little Women (2019)
With/In (2022)
The 24 Hour Woman (1999)
A Time to Kill (1996)
City of Hope (1991)
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
