Acting credits
87
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Chris Cooper
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.8
Moderate attention
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Movies: 78Series: 10Crew credits: 4
TMDB ID: 2955
IMDb ID: nm0177933
Known for: Acting
Born: July 9, 1951
Age: 74
Place of birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1953 - 2025
Years active: 73
Average TMDB rating: 6.71
Wikidata: Q273208
Other jobs
Director (2)Executive Producer (2)
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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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Chris Cooper.
Unscripted Lives
Executive Producer
2025 Movie
6.4
The History of Sound
as Older Lionel
2025 Movie
5.9
Everything's Going to Be Great
as Walter
2025 Movie
6.7
Boston Strangler
as Jack Maclaine
2023 Movie
7.4
With/In Volume 2
2022 Movie
4.0
With/In Volume 2
as (segment "Nuts")
2021 Movie
6.0
Irresistible
as Jack Hastings
2020 Movie
7.9
Little Women
as Mr. Laurence
2019 Movie
Them That Work
as Self
2019 Movie
7.0
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
as Jerry Vogel
2019 Movie
5.3
It Takes a Lunatic
as Self
2019 Movie
6.2
Henrietta Bulkowski
as Danny Wilcox
2019 Movie
Intelligent Lives
as Self
2018 Movie
6.9
Cars 3
as Smokey (voice)
2017 Movie
6.3
Live by Night
as Chief Irving Figgis
2016 Movie
6.2
Coming Through the Rye
as J.D. Salinger
2016 Movie
6.8
Demolition
as Phil Eastwood
2016 Movie
7.1
Fastball
as Clifford Blankenship (voice)
2016 Movie
6.5
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
as Norman Osborn (uncredited)
2014 Movie
6.9
August: Osage County
as Charlie Aiken
2013 Movie
6.6
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2013 Movie
6.2
The Company You Keep
as Daniel Sloan
2012 Movie
7.3
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
as Gary (voice)
2012 Movie
6.7
The Muppets
as Tex Richman
2011 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Chris Cooper.
7.0
Homecoming
as Leonard Geist • 7 eps
2018 Series
7.8
11.22.63
as Al Templeton • 8 eps
2016 Series
9.1
Teen Choice Awards
as Self • 1 eps
1999 Series
6.9
Return to Lonesome Dove
as July Johnson • 4 eps
1993 Series
7.3
Law & Order
as Defense Attorney Roy Payne • 1 eps
1990 Series
7.9
Lonesome Dove
as July Johnson • 4 eps
1989 Series
6.6
American Experience
as Narrator (voice) • 1 eps
1988 Series
7.1
The Equalizer
as Michael • 1 eps
1985 Series
7.5
Miami Vice
as Jimmy Yagovitch • 1 eps
1984 Series
7.1
The Oscars
as Self • 1 eps
1953 Series