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.

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (11)

• 2019It Takes a Lunatic — Self
• 2019Them That Work — Self
• 2013Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2009The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln — Himself (Narrator)
• 2006Making Capote: Concept to Script — Self
• 2004The Making of 'Seabiscuit' — Self
• 2003'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend — Self
• 2003Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend — Self
• 2000American Beauty: Look Closer... — Self
• Teen Choice Awards — Self
• The Oscars — Self