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Chris Cooper
Known for: ActingChristopher 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 59
Little Women
as Mr. Laurence 
Live by Night
as Chief Irving Figgis 
Cars 3
as Smokey (voice) 
Me, Myself & Irene
as Lieutenant Gerke 
The Bourne Identity
as Alexander Conklin 
Adaptation.
as John Laroche 
11.22.63
as Al Templeton 
American Beauty
as Colonel Fitts 
Homecoming
as Leonard Geist 
The Patriot
as Col. Harry Burwell 
The Kingdom
as Grant Sykes 
The Town
as Stephen MacRay 
A Time to Kill
as Dwayne Looney 
This Boy's Life
as Roy 
Remember Me
as Neil Craig 
The Muppets
as Tex Richman 
Lonesome Dove
as July Johnson 
Money Train
as Torch 
Seabiscuit
as Tom Smith 
Breach
as Robert Hanssen 
Interstate 60
as Bob Cody 
August: Osage County
as Charlie Aiken 
October Sky
as John Hickam 
Guilty by Suspicion
as Larry Nolan 
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
as Jerry Vogel 
The Horse Whisperer
as Frank Booker 
Irresistible
as Jack Hastings 
Boston Strangler
as Jack Maclaine 
The Company You Keep
as Daniel Sloan 
Where the Wild Things Are
as Douglas (voice) 
Great Expectations
as Joe 
Demolition
as Phil Eastwood 
The History of Sound
as Older Lionel 
New York, I Love You
as Alex 
Capote
as Alvin Dewey 
The Company Men
as Phil Woodward 
Jarhead
as Lt. Col. Kazinski 
Syriana
as Jimmy Pope 
Return to Lonesome Dove
as July Johnson 
Matewan
as Joe Kenehan 
The Tempest
as Antonio 
Lone Star
as Sam Deeds 
Married Life
as Harry Allen 
Everything's Going to Be Great
as Walter 
The 24 Hour Woman
as Ron Hacksby 
Coming Through the Rye
as J.D. Salinger 
Boys
as Mr. John Baker 
It Takes a Lunatic
as Self 
With/In Volume 2
as (segment "Nuts") 
Silver City
as Dickie Pilager 
Thousand Pieces of Gold
as Charlie 
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
as Gary (voice) 
Alone
as Gus Jr. 
Pharaoh's Army
as Captain John Hull Abston 
The Deliverance of Elaine
as Charlie Skyler 
One More Mountain
as Jack Reed 
Them That Work
as Self 
Intelligent Lives
as Self 
Henrietta Bulkowski
as Danny Wilcox