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Chris Cooper
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),…
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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.
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2025
Unscripted Lives
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
The History of Sound
Movie Older Lionel
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2025
Everything's Going to Be Great
Movie Walter
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2023
Boston Strangler
Movie Jack Maclaine
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2021
With/In Volume 2
Movie (segment "Nuts")
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2020
Irresistible
Movie Jack Hastings
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2019
Little Women
Movie Mr. Laurence
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2019
Them That Work
Movie Self
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2019
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Movie Jerry Vogel
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2019
It Takes a Lunatic
Movie Self
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2019
Henrietta Bulkowski
Movie Danny Wilcox
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2018
Homecoming
TV show Leonard Geist
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2018
Intelligent Lives
Movie Self
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2017
Cars 3
Movie Smokey (voice)
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2016
Live by Night
Movie Chief Irving Figgis
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2016
Coming Through the Rye
Movie J.D. Salinger
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2016
Demolition
Movie Phil Eastwood
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2016
Fastball
Movie Clifford Blankenship (voice)
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2016
11.22.63
TV show Al Templeton
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2014
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Movie Norman Osborn (uncredited)
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2013
August: Osage County
Movie Charlie Aiken
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2013
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2012
The Company You Keep
Movie Daniel Sloan
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2012
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Movie Gary (voice)
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2011
The Muppets
Movie Tex Richman
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2011
Amigo
Movie Col. Hardacre
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2010
The Company Men
Movie Phil Woodward
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2010
The Town
Movie Stephen MacRay
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2010
The Tempest
Movie Antonio
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2010
Remember Me
Movie Neil Craig
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2010
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Movie Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
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2009
Where the Wild Things Are
Movie Douglas (voice)
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2009
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Movie Himself (Narrator)
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2008
Extreme Movie
Movie FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
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2008
New York, I Love You
Movie Alex
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2008
Walt Whitman
Movie Walt Whitman (voice)
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2008
Married Life
Movie Harry Allen
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2007
The Kingdom
Movie Grant Sykes
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2007
Breach
Movie Robert Hanssen
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2006
Primo Levi's Journey
Movie Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
