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Chris Cooper

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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).

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Films Featuring Chris Cooper

American Beauty

19998.0

Jarhead

20056.7

Syriana

20056.4

Capote

20057.0

The Horse Whisperer

19986.9

Me, Myself & Irene

20006.6

A Time to Kill

19967.4

City of Hope

19916.6

The Bourne Identity

20027.5

The Patriot

20007.2

Adaptation.

20027.3

Breach

20076.6

The Kingdom

20076.7

Seabiscuit

20037.1

Interstate 60

20027.4

The Town

20107.2

Remember Me

20107.1

Matewan

19877.4

Married Life

20085.8

This Boy's Life

19937.1

Great Expectations

19986.6

Lone Star

19967.0

October Sky

19997.7

Boston Strangler

20236.6

My House in Umbria

20036.1

The Tempest

20105.3

The Company Men

20106.5

Where the Wild Things Are

20096.5

Silver City

20046.1

Everything's Going to Be Great

20256.0

Breast Men

19975.3

Primo Levi's Journey

20065.9

Amigo

20114.9

Pharaoh's Army

19956.4

The Company You Keep

20126.2

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

20146.6

Thousand Pieces of Gold

19916.8

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

20127.3

August: Osage County

20136.9

In Broad Daylight

19916.1

Making Capote: Concept to Script

20066.5

Light on Broken Glass

Light on Broken Glass

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

20136.6

Money Train

19955.9

New York, I Love You

20086.0

Guilty by Suspicion

19916.5

Demolition

20166.8

The Muppets

20116.7

Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life

19925.0

Bad Timing

1982

Coming Through the Rye

20166.2

Intelligent Lives

2018

Live by Night

20166.3

Fastball

20167.2

One More Mountain

19946.0

The Bourne Supremacy

20047.3

Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

20103.8

Cars 3

20176.9

Boys

19965.4

A Little Piece of Sunshine

19908.0

Little Women

20197.8

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

20197.0

Irresistible

20206.0

Them That Work

2019

It Takes a Lunatic

20195.3

Bed of Lies

19926.0

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

20094.5

To The Moon, Alice

19917.0

Henrietta Bulkowski

20196.1

American Beauty: Look Closer...

20007.8

The Deliverance of Elaine

19964.6

Darrow

19915.4

Extreme Movie

20084.4

Walt Whitman

20085.0

With/In Volume 2

20214.0

Alone

19976.7

The History of Sound

20256.8

The Making of 'Seabiscuit'

The Making of 'Seabiscuit'

20048.0

'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend

'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend

2003

Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend

Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend

2003

The 24 Hour Woman

19995.8

I Passed This Way

I Passed This Way