Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1951-07-09
- Works
- 127
Top works
- Furball of Fortune
- Matter (DK Eyewitness Books)
- ConcussionPro Tracking Log
- Two-Brain Business 2. 0
- Ignite AntiAggression Handbook
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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…
Known for
- Everything's Going to Be Great — Walter2025
- The History of Sound — Older Lionel2025
- Boston Strangler — Jack Maclaine2023
- With/In Volume 2 — (segment "Nuts")2021
- Irresistible — Jack Hastings2020
- Little Women — Mr. Laurence2019
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — Jerry Vogel2019
- Them That Work — Self2019
- It Takes a Lunatic — Self2019
- Henrietta Bulkowski — Danny Wilcox2019
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,748
- Total plays
- 10,790
Tags
guitar virtuosojazzjazz fusion
Christopher W. "Chris" Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an American film actor. He became well known in the late 1990s. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including The Bourne Identity, American Beauty, Capote, The Town, The Kingdom, Syriana, October Sky, Seabiscuit, and Adaptation, for which he won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. His most recent role was as Tex Richman, an evil oil baron and the main human antagonis
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,394x
- Measuring the efficiency of decision making units
· 1978 · cited 21,518x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,495x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,678x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Christopher Walton Cooper , ( 1951-07-09 ) July 9, 1951 (age 74) , Kansas City, Missouri , U.S.
- Alma mater
- University of Missouri
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1977–present
- Spouse
- Marianne Leone ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1983 )
- Children
- 1 (deceased)
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 9 July 1951
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Chris
- Family name
- Cooper
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Kansas City
- Spouse
- Marianne Leone Cooper
- Occupation
- television actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
Article
Christopher Walton Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an American actor. Having made his debut as a stage actor, he made his breakthrough on television as Sheriff July Johnson in the acclaimed Western television miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989). He has appeared in several major Hollywood films including A Time to Kill (1996), October Sky (1999), American Beauty (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), Live by Night (2016), Cars 3 (2017), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), and Little Women (2019). He won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for Adaptation.
Cooper also 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 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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