
Chuck Cooper
Biography
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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Known For
Acting History
2023
Poker Face as Deuteronomy
2022The First Lady as Martin Luther King Sr.
2021tick, tick... BOOM! as "Sunday" Legend #1
2021Vacation Friends as Larry
2020Power Book II: Ghost as Reverend Macedon
2020Little Voice as Percy
2019The Public's Much Ado About Nothing as Leonato
2019A Vigilante as Lawyer
2018God Friended Me as Larry
2018New Amsterdam as Leon Hargrow
2017The Blacklist: Redemption as General Phillips
2016Bull as Judge Elmendorf
2015Act One: Live from Lincoln Center as Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston Hughes
2014Madam Secretary as Mitch Sarno
2014Romeo and Juliet as Lord Capulet
2013Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight as Chauncey Eskridge
2013House of Cards as Barney Hull
2009White Collar as Parole Officer
2009The Good Wife as Gerard Gallo
2007Noise as Judge Gibson
2007American Gangster as Private Doctor
2007Gossip Girl as Horace Rogers
2007Evening as Ray
2007Chapter 27 as Cabbie
2006A Crime as Will
2006Find Me Guilty as James Washington
2004Downtown: A Street Tale as Sergeant Williams
2002Hack as Hayden
2002Without a Trace as Barry's Ex-Boss
2001100 Centre Street as Charlie the Bridgeman
2000The Opportunists as Arnon Morris
2000Our Song as Benjamin
1999Third Watch as Lieutenant Kyle
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Mr. Tassler
1999The Hurricane as Earl Martin
1999Strangers with Candy as Sack Race Referee
1999Gloria as Male Guard
1997The Peacemaker as NYPD Cop
1996The Juror as Stockbroker
1994New York Undercover as Sawyer
1994North as Umpire
1993NYPD Blue as Bus Driver
1992Malcolm X as Customer
1990Law & Order as Walters' Attorney
1990Law & Order as Art Samuels
1990Law & Order as Lester Poole
1990Law & Order as Rolando August
1990Law & Order as Drew MacDaniel
1990Criminal Justice as Judge Whitney
1987Action Family as Cop
—Road Show as Papa Mizner
—After All





