Chris Cooper
Birthday: 1951-07-09
Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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American Beauty
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Jarhead
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Syriana
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Capote
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The Horse Whisperer
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Me, Myself & Irene
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A Time to Kill
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City of Hope
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The Bourne Identity
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The Patriot
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Adaptation.
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Breach
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The Kingdom
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Seabiscuit
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of...
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Interstate 60
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The Town
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Remember Me
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Matewan
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Married Life
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This Boy's Life
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Great Expectations
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Lone Star
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October Sky
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Boston Strangler
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My House in Umbria
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The Tempest
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The Company Men
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Where the Wild Things Are
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Silver City
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Everything's Going to Be Great
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Breast Men
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Primo Levi's Journey
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With/In Volume 2
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Amigo
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Pharaoh's Army
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The Company You Keep
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2
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Thousand Pieces of Gold
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Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
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August: Osage County
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In Broad Daylight
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Light on Broken Glass
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Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
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Money Train
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New York, I Love You
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Guilty by Suspicion
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Demolition
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The Muppets
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Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
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Bad Timing
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Coming Through the Rye
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Intelligent Lives
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Live by Night
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Fastball
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One More Mountain
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The Bourne Supremacy
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Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
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Cars 3
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Boys
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A Little Piece of Sunshine
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
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Irresistible
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Them That Work
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It Takes a Lunatic
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Bed of Lies
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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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To the Moon, Alice
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Henrietta Bulkowski
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American Beauty: Look Closer...
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The Deliverance of Elaine
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Darrow
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Extreme Movie
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Walt Whitman
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With/In Volume 2
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Alone
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The History of Sound
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'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend
Documentary on the making of the 2003 film 'Seabiscuit'....
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Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend
Documentary on the performers in the 2003 film 'Seabiscuit'....
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The 24 Hour Woman
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