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Chris Cooper

Born 1951 · American actor (1951-)

Christopher Walton Cooper is an American actor. Having debuted as a stage actor, his television breakthrough was as Sheriff July Johnson in the acclaimed Western television miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989). He has appeared in 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 the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for Adaptation.

Chris Cooper, in order

  1. 1987 Matewan: acted · directed by John Sayles · critics 94%, audiences 93% · streaming on Prime Video
  2. 1989 Lonesome Dove (TV series): acted · directed by Simon Wincer · critics 98%, audiences 93% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, Peacock
  3. 1990 Thousand Pieces of Gold: acted · directed by Nancy Kelly · critics 88%, audiences 68% · streaming on Kanopy, Plex, Tubi
  4. 1991 City of Hope: acted · directed by John Sayles
  5. 1991 Guilty by Suspicion: acted · directed by Irwin Winkler · critics 68%, audiences 55% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, YouTube (free)
  6. 1992 Bed of Lies (TV movie): acted · directed by William A. Graham
  7. 1993 This Boy's Life: acted · directed by Michael Caton-Jones · critics 77%, audiences 80% · streaming on Kanopy, Plex, Tubi
  8. 1995 Money Train: acted · directed by Joseph Ruben
  9. 1995 Pharaoh's Army: acted · directed by Robby Henson
  10. 1996 A Time to Kill: acted · directed by Joel Schumacher · critics 70%, audiences 85% · streaming on YouTube (free)
  11. 1996 Boys: acted · directed by Stacy Cochran · critics 15%, audiences 26%
  12. 1996 Law & Order (TV series): acted · audiences 84% · streaming on Hulu, Peacock, Netflix
  13. 1996 Lone Star: acted · directed by John Sayles
  14. 1997 Breast Men (TV movie): acted · directed by Lawrence O'Neil · critics 50%, audiences 33%
  15. 1998 Great Expectations: acted · directed by Alfonso Cuarón · critics 41%, audiences 56%
  16. 1998 The Horse Whisperer: acted · directed by Robert Redford · critics 72%, audiences 72%
  17. 1999 American Beauty: acted · directed by Sam Mendes · critics 87%, audiences 93% · streaming on Hoopla
  18. 1999 October Sky: acted · directed by Joe Johnston · critics 90%, audiences 88% · streaming on YouTube (free)
  19. 2000 Me, Myself & Irene: acted · directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly · critics 47%, audiences 57% · streaming on fuboTV
  20. 2000 The Patriot: acted · directed by Roland Emmerich · critics 61%, audiences 81% · streaming on Paramount+
  21. 2002 Adaptation: acted · directed by Spike Jonze · critics 90%, audiences 85% · streaming on Tubi
  22. 2002 Interstate 60: acted · directed by Bob Gale
  23. 2002 The Bourne Identity: acted · directed by Doug Liman · critics 84%, audiences 93% · streaming on Netflix
  24. 2003 My House in Umbria (TV movie): acted · directed by Richard Loncraine
  25. 2003 Seabiscuit: acted · directed by Gary Ross · critics 77%, audiences 76% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+, Kanopy
  26. 2004 Silver City: acted · directed by John Sayles
  27. 2004 The Bourne Supremacy: acted · directed by Paul Greengrass · critics 81%, audiences 90% · streaming on Netflix, Starz
  28. 2005 Capote: acted · directed by Bennett Miller · critics 89%, audiences 82% · streaming on Roku Channel, Kanopy, Hoopla
  29. 2005 Jarhead: acted · directed by Sam Mendes · critics 60%, audiences 68% · streaming on Netflix, Starz
  30. 2005 Syriana: acted · directed by Stephen Gaghan · critics 73%, audiences 67%
  31. 2007 Breach: acted · directed by Billy Ray
  32. 2007 Married Life: acted · directed by Ira Sachs
  33. 2007 The Kingdom: acted · directed by Peter Berg · critics 51%, audiences 76% · streaming on Starz
  34. 2008 New York, I Love You: acted · directed by Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes · critics 37%, audiences 37% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, Philo
  35. 2009 Where the Wild Things Are: acted · directed by Spike Jonze
  36. 2010 Amigo: acted · directed by John Sayles
  37. 2010 Remember Me: acted · directed by Allen Coulter
  38. 2010 The Company Men: acted · directed by John Wells
  39. 2010 The Tempest: acted · directed by Julie Taymor
  40. 2010 The Town: acted · directed by Ben Affleck · critics 92%, audiences 85% · streaming on HBO Max, Roku Channel
  41. 2011 The Muppets: acted · directed by James Bobin
  42. 2012 The Company You Keep: acted · directed by Robert Redford
  43. 2013 August: Osage County: acted · directed by John Wells · critics 67%, audiences 65% · streaming on Prime Video, Philo, Roku Channel
  44. 2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2: acted · directed by Marc Webb · critics 51%, audiences 64% · streaming on Disney+, fuboTV
  45. 2015 Demolition: acted · directed by Jean-Marc Vallée
  46. 2016 11.22.63 (TV series): acted · directed by Kevin Macdonald
  47. 2016 Live by Night: acted · directed by Ben Affleck · critics 34%, audiences 42% · streaming on YouTube (free)
  48. 2019 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: acted · directed by Marielle Heller
  49. 2019 It Takes a Lunatic: acted · directed by Billy Lyons and Kim Ferraro · audiences 80% · streaming on Netflix
  50. 2019 Little Women: acted · directed by Greta Gerwig · critics 95%, audiences 92% · streaming on Hulu
  51. 2020 Irresistible: acted · directed by Jon Stewart
  52. 2023 Boston Strangler: acted · directed by Matt Ruskin · critics 66%, audiences 67% · streaming on Hulu
  53. 2025 Everything’s Going to Be Great: acted · directed by Jon S. Baird
  54. 2025 The History of Sound: acted · directed by Oliver Hermanus