Chris Cooper - Famous Voice Actor

Chris Cooper Net Worth

$6,000,000

Famous actor and director Chris Cooper has a net worth of $6 million, which he earned through his more than 70 acting credits, including winning an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for ‘Adaptation,’ directing segments in the 2021 anthological drama ‘With/In: Volume 2,’ and executive producing the 2018 documentary ‘Intelligent Lives.’

Key facts:

  • Chris Cooper is an American actor, director, and producer with over 70 acting credits to his name.
  • He won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for his performance in 2002's 'Adaptation.'
  • Cooper has starred in popular films such as 'American Beauty,' 'The Bourne Identity,' 'Seabiscuit,' 'Capote,' 'The Town,' and 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.'
  • He also has experience performing on Broadway, having played Ben Mercer in 'Of the Fields, Lately' and Torvald Helmer in 'A Doll's House, Part 2,' for which he earned a Tony nomination.
  • In addition to his work in film and theater, Cooper has also directed the 'Nuts' segment in the 2021 anthology drama 'With/In: Volume 2' and executive produced the 2018 documentary 'Intelligent Lives.'

Basic Information About Chris Cooper

CategoryCelebrities β€Ί Actors
ProfessionsActor, Voice Actor
Net worth$6,000,000
Date of birth1951-07-09 (73 years old)
Place of birthKansas City
NationalityUnited States of America
Curiosities and TrademarksUsually plays characters that are associated with the government (including the military), politics, or agencies. See: The Bourne Identity (2002), Silver City (2004), Syriana (2005), Me, Myself & Irene (2000), Jarhead (2005), The Patriot (2000), American Beauty (1999), Breach (2007).
Deep gravelly voice
Intense understated performances
SpouseMarianne Leone - (8 JulyΒ 1983 - present)Β (1 child)
GenderMale
Height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Social Mediaβ†—οΈŽ Wikipedia β†—οΈŽ IMDb

What Movie Awards did Chris Cooper win?


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Chris Cooper awards

Award Name State Movie / Series Name Year
Movies for Grownups Award - Best Supporting ActorWinnerAugust: Osage County2014
Gold Derby Award - Ensemble CastNomineeAugust: Osage County2014
WAFCA Award - Best Acting EnsembleWinnerThe Town2010
Oscar - Best Actor in a Supporting RoleWinnerAdaptation.2003
Critics Choice Award - Best Supporting ActorWinnerAdaptation.2003
COFCA Award - Best Supporting ActorWinnerAdaptation.2003
DFWFCA Award - Best Supporting ActorWinnerAdaptation.2003
INOCA - Best Supporting ActorWinnerAdaptation.2003
IOMA - Best Supporting Actor (Miglior attore non protagonista)NomineeAdaptation.2003
KCFCC Award - Best Supporting ActorWinnerAdaptation.2002
LAFCA Award - Best Supporting ActorWinnerAdaptation.2002
NBR Award - Best Supporting ActorWinnerAdaptation.2002
NSFC Award - Best Supporting ActorNomineeAdaptation.2003
OFTA Film Award - Best Supporting ActorWinnerAdaptation.2003
SDFCS Award - Best Supporting ActorWinnerAdaptation.2002
SFFCC Award - Best Supporting ActorWinnerAdaptation.2002
Seattle Film Critics Award - Best Supporting ActorWinnerAdaptation.2002
SEFCA Award - Best Supporting ActorWinnerAdaptation.2002
VFCC Award - Best Supporting ActorWinnerAdaptation.2003
Chlotrudis Award - Best ActorNomineeLone Star1997
Actor - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting RoleNomineeSeabiscuit2004
DFWFCA Award - Best Supporting ActorNomineeThe Company Men2010
Movies for Grownups Award - Best ActorWinnerBreach2008
VVFP Award - Best ActorNomineeBreach2007

Chris Cooper roles

Movie / Series Role
The Bourne IdentityConklin
The PatriotCol. Harry Burwell
Little WomenMr. Laurence
IrresistibleJack Hastings
The Bourne SupremacyConklin (uncredited)
A Time to KillDeputy Dwayne Powell Looney
Remember MeSgt. Neil Craig
August: Osage CountyCharlie Aiken
Cars 3Smokey (voice)
Live by NightChief Figgis
JarheadLt. Col. Kazinski
American BeautyColonel Fitts
The TownStephen MacRay
This Boy's LifeRoy
DemolitionPhil
The Amazing Spider-Man 2Norman Osborn (uncredited)
October SkyJohn Hickam
Where the Wild Things AreDouglas (voice)
A Beautiful Day in the NeighborhoodJerry Vogel
The MuppetsTex Richman
Adaptation.John Laroche
CapoteAlvin Dewey
Me, Myself & IreneLieutenant Gerke
The KingdomGrant Sykes
Great ExpectationsJoe
Lone StarSam
New York, I Love YouAlex (segment "Yvan Attal")
SeabiscuitTom Smith
SyrianaJimmy Pope
The Horse WhispererFrank Booker
The Company MenPhil Woodward
Money TrainTorch
Interstate 60: Episodes of the RoadBob Cody
The Company You KeepDaniel Sloan
BreachRobert Hanssen
The TempestAntonio
Made in HollywoodSelf 5 episodes, 2013-2020
Law & OrderRoy Payne 1 episode, 1996
HomecomingLeonard Geist 7 episodes, 2020
All My ChildrenRoger O'Hara 1 episode, 1984
American ExperienceSelf - Narrator / ... 2 episodes, 2008-2009
Miami ViceJimmy Yagovitch 1 episode, 1988
Another WorldEd 1 episode, 1985
American PlayhouseLouis Halladay 1 episode, 1988

Chris Cooper's Quotes

  • (On landing his role in Matewan) That was my first feature film, but it came in kind of an interesting way. My wife [Marianne] was also an actor. When we were living in New York, she answered a backstage ad for an NYU student's film, and that turned out to be Nancy Savoca. So Marianne did Nancy's half-hour junior black-and-white piece. Then she and Nancy and Rich, Nancy's husband-we all four became real good friends from that experience. Then Nancy worked on Brother From Another Planet when John [Sayles] was shooting that. And she was aware that John beforehand had lost financing. He wanted to do Matewan, but lost the financing, so he went on to do Brother From Another Planet. So Nancy gave John my name, and said, "When the time comes for Matewan, take a look at this guy." So that's kind of how that came about. It was an audition in midtown. I went up and read a couple of scenes. And then some months passed. I went to London to do a West End production with Harold Pinter-it was a Tennessee Williams play, Sweet Bird Of Youth, directed by Harold Pinter and starring Lauren Bacall. So in the seven months that I was over in England, news came. I got a callback to read some more scenes. So we did the Sunday matinΓ©e, and I had to get on a plane, fly to the States, do the audition, get back on the plane, fly back for Tuesday night's performance. I had virtually noooo sleep. I was really on a high just in anticipation of the audition. And then during that Tuesday-night performance, I came really, really close to fainting onstage because I was so tuckered.
  • (On Money Train) We had just moved to Kingston, I think in '94. I think I had gone into New York and auditioned for one or two characters in that script, and we bought this little house here that we still live in. And financially, we had no business buying this house. We were scared to death. So it was an opportunity to make some money and do another film role, and it's something I thought would be very challenging. It turned out to be... Certainly not a pleasant character. Sometimes you go into those dark areas, and that's what you're called to do. It was a pretty wicked, awful character, considering what he did. I just really can't say that was an enjoyable role. It was more of an opportunity, and kind of survival. Something for a number of reasons that I just had to do.
  • (On Adaptation) The audition I did was very, very unusual, in that when I read the script, I just saw so many possibilities and ways to play a scene. If you're not familiar with the audition process-you're lucky if you get a second reading of the character. I went to the audition and pleaded with Spike to please allow me to show him four or five interpretations of a scene. And he let me do that. We did four, possibly five scenes where I showed him different ways I thought this could be played. Then once I was cast, and we were shooting the film, when the finished product came out, that's how Spike directed me. He would say in a particular scene, "Okay, here you are picking up Susan Orlean at her hotel, and you're going into the Everglades or whatever. Okay, on first meeting her, you could be terribly intimidated. Here you are, this Florida redneck cracker meeting this intellectual New York journalist, and you're completely intimidated. Okay, now play it like you're the smartest guy in the world, and she's lucky to have this time to spend with you. So you're very confident." So on and so forth. So we'd play all those different variations, and then when it came to editing the film, it was up to Spike to choose what take he wanted. And that became a real surprise to me at the premiere when I saw the film, because I didn't know what take he was going to use.
  • (On landing Lonesome Dove) It's a mystery-I know they auditioned a lot of folks in L.A., and if I remember correctly, they had a handful of actors they were going to read in New York. And why or how I got the opportunity to audition for Lonesome Dove, I have no idea. But I knew that character of July Johnson was just-seemed to fit me like a glove. And I worked my tail off on that audition. And also, somehow, somewhere getting the news that the director felt pretty sure he had cast the role of July Johnson, that just spurred me on to try and give the best audition I could ever give at that time. And I guess it worked out.
  • (On his role in The Town) It's like one scene. But a great scene, I think. This is a great adaptation from a Chuck Hogan book called Prince Of Thieves. I play Ben Affleck's father, who is doing five life terms for a Brinks heist that I committed and killed a couple of the guards. But this story is generational. It's thieves who pass down their triumphs and mistakes to the next generation, so that they don't make the same mistake that the previous-like I had made. So Ben is visiting me in Walpole Prison. We spent just a great day with this prison visit scene. And Ben was kind enough to assemble 13 minutes of film that involved every reference to my character before my scene, so I could see how other people saw him before I played him.

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Interesting Facts about Chris Cooper

  1. Lives in Kingston, Massachusetts, USA.
  2. Filmed scenes for The Ring (2002) that were cut, though a picture of him in a newspaper remains in the film.
  3. Son, Jesse Cooper (with Leone), born 1987, died January 2005 from causes related to cerebral palsy.
  4. Studied ballet at Stephens College in Columbia.
  5. He majored in agriculture and acting at the University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.
  6. Turned down the role of Jim Gordon in Batman Begins (2005).
  7. As a young man, he did some construction work, including helping with the construction of Royals Stadium in Kansas City, now known as Kaufman Stadium.
  8. Graduated from Southwest High School in 1969. Southwest High School closed down in 1998 and reopened in 1999 as Southwest Charter School. Southwest High School is located in the Kansas City, Missouri School District.
  9. Said he was afraid of taking the role in American Beauty (1999); his wife convinced him to take the role of the repressed soldier.
  10. His parents were from Texas. His mother, Mary Ann (Walton), was a homemaker, and his father, Charles Sherwood Cooper, was an internist who served as a doctor in the US Air Force, and a cattleman.
  11. Older brother, Chuck Cooper (born in 1948), is a contractor.
  12. His first foray into acting came when he was drafted from the set-builder ranks of his local community theater to serve as a last-minute substitute for Tom Berenger in a production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" as the paper boy.
  13. One of his first notable roles was in Lonesome Dove (1989), in which he worked opposite Anjelica Huston. In The Kingdom (2007), he appears with her brother Danny Huston, as well as Jennifer Garner, who played Anjelica's character in the Lonesome Dove prequel Dead Man's Walk (1996).
  14. As of 2020, has appeared in 4 films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: American Beauty (1999), Seabiscuit (2003), Capote (2005), and Little Women (2019). American Beauty (1999) won in the category.
  15. Did not make his first screen appearance until he was thirty-six years old.
  16. He filmed a few scenes in Her (2013), which would reunite him with Spike Jonze right after their successful partnership in Adaptation. (2002), but his part was deleted from the final film.

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