
Chris Cooper
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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Acting History
2025
The History of Sound as Older Lionel
2025Everything's Going to Be Great as Walter
2023Boston Strangler as Jack Maclaine
2022With/In Volume 2
2021With/In Volume 2 as (segment "Nuts")
2020Irresistible as Jack Hastings
2019Little Women as Mr. Laurence
2019Them That Work as Self
2019A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood as Jerry Vogel
2019It Takes a Lunatic as Self
2019Henrietta Bulkowski as Danny Wilcox
2018Homecoming as Leonard Geist
2018Intelligent Lives as Self
2017Cars 3 as Smokey (voice)
2016Live by Night as Chief Irving Figgis
2016Coming Through the Rye as J.D. Salinger
2016Demolition as Phil Eastwood
2016Fastball as Clifford Blankenship (voice)
201611.22.63 as Al Templeton
2014The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as Norman Osborn (uncredited)
2013August: Osage County as Charlie Aiken
2013Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy as Self - Narrator (voice)
2012The Company You Keep as Daniel Sloan
2012Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God as Gary (voice)
2011The Muppets as Tex Richman
2011Amigo as Col. Hardacre
2010The Company Men as Phil Woodward
2010The Town as Stephen MacRay
2010The Tempest as Antonio
2010Remember Me as Neil Craig
2010Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize as Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
2009Where the Wild Things Are as Douglas (voice)
2009The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln as Himself (Narrator)
2008Extreme Movie as FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
2008New York, I Love You as Alex
2008Walt Whitman as Walt Whitman (voice)
2008Married Life as Harry Allen
2007The Kingdom as Grant Sykes
2007Breach as Robert Hanssen
2006Primo Levi's Journey as Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
2006Making Capote: Concept to Script as Self
2005Syriana as Jimmy Pope
2005Jarhead as Lt. Col. Kazinski
2005Capote as Alvin Dewey
2004The Making of 'Seabiscuit' as Self
2004Silver City as Dickie Pilager
2004The Bourne Supremacy as Alexander Conklin (uncredited)
2003Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend as Self
2003Seabiscuit as Tom Smith
2003'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend as Self
2003My House in Umbria as Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
2002Adaptation. as John Laroche
2002The Bourne Identity as Alexander Conklin
2002Interstate 60 as Bob Cody
2000American Beauty: Look Closer... as Self
2000The Patriot as Col. Harry Burwell
2000Me, Myself & Irene as Lieutenant Gerke
1999American Beauty as Colonel Fitts
1999Teen Choice Awards as Self
1999October Sky as John Hickam
1999The 24 Hour Woman as Ron Hacksby
1998The Horse Whisperer as Frank Booker
1998Great Expectations as Joe
1997Alone as Gus Jr.
1997Breast Men as Dr. William Larson
1996A Time to Kill as Dwayne Looney
1996Lone Star as Sam Deeds
1996Boys as Mr. John Baker
1996The Deliverance of Elaine as Charlie Skyler
1995Money Train as Torch
1995Pharaoh's Army as Captain John Hull Abston
1994One More Mountain as Jack Reed
1993Return to Lonesome Dove as July Johnson
1993This Boy's Life as Roy
1992Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life as Anthony Blessing
1992Bed of Lies as Price Daniel, Jr.
1991City of Hope as Riggs
1991To the Moon, Alice as Frank Wiliker
1991Darrow as Eugene Debs
1991Thousand Pieces of Gold as Charlie
1991Guilty by Suspicion as Larry Nolan
1991In Broad Daylight as Jack Wilson
1990A Little Piece of Sunshine as Ernie Favaro
1990Law & Order as Defense Attorney Roy Payne
1989Lonesome Dove as July Johnson
1988American Experience as Narrator (voice)
1987Matewan as Joe Kenehan
1985The Equalizer as Michael
1984Miami Vice as Jimmy Yagovitch
1982Bad Timing as Eddie
1953The Oscars as Self
—Light on Broken Glass as Jay









