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Chris Cooper

Chris Cooper
Cooper at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
Born
Christopher Walton Cooper

(1951-07-09) July 9, 1951 (age 73)
Alma materUniversity of Missouri
OccupationActor
Years active1977–present
Spouse
(m. 1983)
Children1

Christopher Walton Cooper[1] (born July 9, 1951) is an American actor. His breakthrough role was as Sheriff July Johnson in the acclaimed Western television miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989). He has appeared in several major Hollywood films including A Time to Kill (1996), October Sky (1999), American Beauty (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), Live by Night (2016), Cars 3 (2017), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), and Little Women (2019). He won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of John Laroche in the 2002 film Adaptation.

Cooper also 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 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).

Cooper's other accolades include a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, an Independent Spirit Award, and three Satellite Awards. In 2017, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in A Doll's House, Part 2.

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