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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…
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Born 9 July 1951 · Q273208
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Cooper served as an executive producer of the documentary My Own Normal about Alexander Freeman, a filmmaker from Newton, Massachusetts who has cerebral palsy, following his journey of becoming a partner and father and c
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Cooper starred in two acclaimed films, Marielle Heller's A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, with Tom Hanks, and Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Little Women with an ensemble cast featuring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Flor
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And Laurie Metcalf starred 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
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Was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in A Doll's House, Part 2
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Cooper received an honorary doctorate from the University of Massachusetts Lowell
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Chris Cooper appeared in The Muppets as Tex Richman, the antagonistic oil tycoon who is unable to laugh
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Appeared as a government agent in dangerous territory in the action thriller The Kingdom and voiced the character Douglas in the film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's book, Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
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Jesse Cooper died suddenly and unexpectedly from epilepsy
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He's an honors student, and he's doing great." On January 3, 2005, Jesse Cooper died suddenly and unexpectedly from epilepsy.
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Cooper starred in Silver City, playing an inept Republican gubernatorial candidate, a character noted for similarities to U
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for Adaptation (2003).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Adaptation (2003).
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For playing the role of John Laroche in Adaptation
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Cooper also appeared in The Bourne Identity as a ruthless CIA special ops director, a role he reprised (in flashbacks) in The Bourne Supremacy
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Cooper played Colonel Harry Burwell (inspired by Lieutenant Colonel Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee) in The Patriot
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Played Ty Cobb in Cobb at the Yale Repertory Theatre
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Their son, Jesse Lanier Cooper, was born three months prematurely in October 1987.
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Cooper appeared in the London revival of Sweet Bird of Youth
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Born 1951-07-09.
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In Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Charles (1923-1989) and Mary Ann (Walton) Cooper (1925-2015)
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