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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Filmography (94)
Everything's Going to Be Great
2025
The History of Sound
2025
Boston Strangler
2023
With/In Volume 2
2021
Irresistible
2020
Little Women
2019
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2019
Them That Work
2019
It Takes a Lunatic
2019
Henrietta Bulkowski
2019
Intelligent Lives
2018
Homecoming
2018
Cars 3
2017
Demolition
2016
Coming Through the Rye
2016
Live by Night
2016
Fastball
2016
11.22.63
2016
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
August: Osage County
2013
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013
The Company You Keep
2012
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
Amigo
2011
The Muppets
2011
The Town
2010
Remember Me
2010
The Tempest
2010
The Company Men
2010
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
2010
Where the Wild Things Are
2009
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
2009
Married Life
2008
New York, I Love You
2008
Extreme Movie
2008
Walt Whitman
2008
Breach
2007
The Kingdom
2007
Primo Levi's Journey
2006
Making Capote: Concept to Script
2006
Jarhead
2005
Syriana
2005
Capote
2005
Silver City
2004
The Bourne Supremacy
2004
The Making of 'Seabiscuit'
2004
Seabiscuit
2003
My House in Umbria
2003
'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend
2003
Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend
2003
The Bourne Identity
2002
Adaptation.
2002
Interstate 60
2002
Me, Myself & Irene
2000
The Patriot
2000
American Beauty: Look Closer...
2000
American Beauty
1999
October Sky
1999
The 24 Hour Woman
1999
Teen Choice Awards
1999
The Horse Whisperer
1998
Great Expectations
1998
Breast Men
1997
Alone
1997
A Time to Kill
1996
Lone Star
1996
Boys
1996
The Deliverance of Elaine
1996
Film Independent Spirit Awards
1996
Pharaoh's Army
1995
Money Train
1995
One More Mountain
1994
This Boy's Life
1993
Return to Lonesome Dove
1993
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
1992
Bed of Lies
1992
City of Hope
1991
Thousand Pieces of Gold
1991
In Broad Daylight
1991
Guilty by Suspicion
1991
To The Moon, Alice
1991
Darrow
1991
A Little Piece of Sunshine
1990
Law & Order
1990
Lonesome Dove
1989
American Experience
1988
Matewan
1987
The Equalizer
1985
Miami Vice
1984
Bad Timing
1982
American Playhouse
1982
The Oscars
1953
Light on Broken Glass
I Passed This Way
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