Chuck Cooper

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Won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his portrayal of Memphis in The Life. His other Broadway credits include: Chicago, Passion, Someone to Watch Over Me, Rumors, Amen Corner, Getting Away With Murder, and Badfoot in St. Louis Woman, in City Centers acclaimed Encore series. National tours: The Tap Dance Kid, Eubie and Whistle Down the Wind. Off-Broadway: Thunder Knocking On The door, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Jawbone, Avenue X, Police Boys and Colored People's Time. Regional Theatre: Paul Robeson in Paul Robeson at the Passage Theatre, Thunder Knocking On The Door at Trinity Repertory, The Doctor is Out, Othello in Othello at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Brutus in Julius Caesar at the Philadelphia Drama Guild, Tullus Aufidius in Coriolanus at the Old Globe Theatre and Caliban in The Tempest at the Alliance Theatre Company. Television credits include Law & Order, Oz, Strangers with Candy, NYPD Blue, Cosby, The Cosby Mysteries, New York Undercover, I'll Fly Away, The Bold and the Beautiful and as Charlie the Bridge Man in the A&E series 100 Centre Street. His most recent film credits are _3 Days of Rain (2000)_, Our Song (2000), Gloria (1999), The Peacemaker (1997), The Juror (1996) and The Hurricane (1999).

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2023
Poker Face
TV show Deuteronomy
2022
The First Lady
TV show Martin Luther King Sr.
2021
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Movie "Sunday" Legend #1
2021
Vacation Friends
Movie Larry
2020
Power Book II: Ghost
TV show Reverend Macedon
2020
Little Voice
TV show Percy
2019
The Public's Much Ado About Nothing
Movie Leonato
2019
A Vigilante
Movie Lawyer
2018
God Friended Me
TV show Larry
2018
New Amsterdam
TV show Leon Hargrow
2017
The Blacklist: Redemption
TV show General Phillips
2016
Bull
TV show Judge Elmendorf
2015
Act One: Live from Lincoln Center
Movie Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston Hughes
2014
Madam Secretary
TV show Mitch Sarno
2014
Romeo and Juliet
Movie Lord Capulet
2013
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Movie Chauncey Eskridge