Chris Cooper

At 73 years old, Chris Cooper has this physical status:

Christopher Walton Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an American actor.

He has appeared in many major Hollywood films, including the drama American Beauty (1999), the biographical film Seabiscuit (2004), the political thriller The Town (2005), and the musical comedy film The Muppets (2011).

Sheriff July Johnson was also portrayed in the celebrated miniseries Lonesome Dove, which became one of the country's most popular Westerns. Cooper received both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for his role in the 2002 film adaptation.

He was a central figure in Breach, a political and cultural drama, in which he appeared as FBI agent and traitor Robert Hanssen.

In the 2012 political drama The Company You Keep and supervillain Norman Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), he played Daniel Sloan and supervillain Norman Osborn.

He also appeared Al Templeton on the 2016 Hulu miniseries 11.22.63. Matewan (1987), City of Hope (1991), Lone Star (1996), Silver City (2004), and Amigo (2010) are all regular collaborators with director John Sayles, including Matewan (1987), City of Hope (1991).

Early life

Cooper, born in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 9, 1951, was the son of Charles and Mary Ann (Walton) Cooper. Chuck Cooper, his older brother (born 1948), is a character in the film "Sel Cooper (Japan). His father was both a United States Air Force doctor and a cattleman, and his mother was a housewife. Both of his parents were from Texas. Cooper grew up in Kansas City's suburbs and spent his summers at his family's cattle ranch, which is about 15 miles west of Leavenworth, Kansas. He was also raised in Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Houston. Cooper worked at a local theater company while attending Southwest High School in Kansas City: "I had a background in carpentry so I could create sets and work in the wings and shift scenes in the evening." Cooper was the shop foreman for another repertory company after he graduated from high school. He also considered helping his father raise cattle for a living. Cooper was stationed in the Coast Guard Reserve.

Cooper was enrolled in the University of Missouri and majored in set design. Cooper converted his major to acting in order to get rid of his "overpowering shyness" during his sophomore year. Cooper, therefore, took acting classes at the University of Missouri. "I began going in and watching some shows at The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1996." I started taking theater classes and auditioned for plays. And once I got into it, it was all about speed. I really felt right and felt at home." At Stephens College, Cooper took dance lessons.

Cooper came from Missouri University of Missouri and moved to New York City in 1976. Cooper lived in New York and shared a one-bedroom railroad apartment with four other young actors and dancers. He supported himself by renovating apartments. In addition, he worked in construction and served as a janitor and a chauffeur. He worked with Stella Adler and Wynn Handman at the same time. Cooper spent the previous twelve years doing stage work with the Actors Theater of Louisville and the Seattle Repertory before his film debut (1987). Cooper appeared in the London revival of Sweet Birds of Youth in 1985.

Personal life

Marianne Leone, Cooper's future wife, was born in 1979 at an acting class in New York City. "She was the girl for me" on their first date. In July 1983, they married. Jesse Lanier Cooper Cooper, the family's son, was born three months prematurely in October 1987. Jesse had cerebral hemorrhage and developed cerebral palsy three days after being born. Jesse was later accepted into Silver Lake Regional High School, where he became an honor student. In a 2003 interview with The Morning Call, Cooper said, "(Jesse) is the best thing that has ever happened to us." He's in a wheelchair and uses only by computer, but he's taught me so much because he's so focused. Now he's in a regular school, which we fought to get him into. He's an honors scholar, and he's doing amazing." Jesse Cooper died suddenly and unexpectedly from epilepsy on January 3, 2005. The Jesse Cooper Foundation, a memorial fund, was established in his honor. Cooper has said that the death of his son has helped him to recognize several characters from his childhood, such as Charles Aiken in August: Osage County (2013) and Phil Eastwood in Demolition (2015).

Cooper owned residences in Hoboken, New Jersey, and Plymouth, Massachusetts. He lives in Kingston, Massachusetts, as of 2003. He has been close friends with frequent collaborator John Sayles since 1985. Cooper received an honorary doctorate from the University of Massachusetts Lowell on May 14, 2016.

He and his wife Marianneanne adopted and raised rescue dogs.

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Career

Cooper's early appearances include John Sayles' 1987 film Matewan; the 1989 CBS-TV Western miniseries Lonesome Dove; the 1991 Australian Western drama Thousand Pieces of Gold; and Bed of Lies, opposite Susan Dey.

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Colonel Harry Burwell appeared in The Patriot in 2000, and he was inspired by Lieutenant Colonel Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee. He was nominated for another Screen Actor Award, a BAFTA Award, and for his role as John Laroche in adaptations, as well as an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe Award in 2003. Cooper appeared in The Bourne Identity as a ruthless CIA special operations director in 2002, a role he reprised (in flashbacks) in The Bourne Supremacy.

In 2003's Seabiscuit, Cooper received another Screen Actor Guild Award for his support as racehorse trainer Tom Smith. Cooper played in Silver City as an inept Republican gubernatorial candidate, a man whose role was traced to US President George W. Bush.

In 2005, Cooper appeared in three critically acclaimed films: Jarhead (which reunited him with American Beauty director Sam Mendes and Fallenhamal actor Jake Gyllenhaal); Capote; and Syriana. Robert Hanssen, a real-life FBI agent and traitor, appeared in the film Breach. Breach was "the first studio film in which they've decided they've considered me the lead [actor]," Cooper said. In 2007, he appeared in The Kingdom as a government agent in a volatile area of action thriller The Kingdom and portrayed Douglas in Maurice Sendak's film adaptation, Where the Wild Things Are (2009).

Cooper appeared alongside Ben Affleck in The Company Men, one of the early reviews of which praised Cooper's presence as "pitch-perfect."

Chris Cooper appeared in The Muppets in 2011 as Tex Richman, the violent oil tycoon who is unable to laugh. Cooper performed "Let's Talk About Me" in the musical film.

He and Laurie Metcalf appeared in A Doll's House, Part 2, a Broadway play by Lucas Hnath based on Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, for which he received a Tony Award nomination. Torvald, Nora Helmer's husband, appeared on Nora Helmer.

In an uncredited role in the 2014 film The Amazing Spider-Man 2 by Cooper, he played Norman Osborn. Live by Night, Ben Affleck's crime drama, was released in December 2016.

Cooper appeared in two critically acclaimed films, Marielle Heller's A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Little Women starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Timothée Chalamet, Laura Dern, and Meryl St.

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