Chris Cooper was born on July 9, 1951 in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was raised. His first acting job was as a paperboy in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire, where he was first working as a set-builder. He continued to perform in the local Barns Players, the local Kansas City community theater. He later graduated from the University of Missouri, where he majored in agriculture and acting. He also served in the United States Coast Guard Reserve.
Chris’s first roles were in the Broadway plays The Ballad of Soupy Sales (1983) and A Different Moon (1983). His earliest film roles were as Joe Keneham in Matawan (1987) and as July Johnson in the TV mini-series Lonesome Dove (1989).
A large portion of his roles have been characters that are either in the government or in some type of law enforcement. The most notable of these roles are as Deputy Dwight Looney in John Grisham’s A Time to Kill (1996), Col Frank Fitts in American Beauty (1999), the Revolutionary War’s Col. Harry Burwell in The Patriot (2000), a merciless CIA director in The Bourne Identity (2002), the inept Colorado gubernatorial candidate Dickie Pilager in Silver City (2004), Lt. Col. Kazinski in Jarhead (2005), Jimmy Pope in Syriana (2005), FBI agent turned Soviet spy Robert Hanssen In Breach (2007) and FBI investigator Grant Sykes in The Kingdom (2007).
Other roles for Chris include a pyromaniac in Money Train (1995), the coalminer father in October Sky (1999), a racehorse trainer in Seabiscuit (2003), and Alvin Dewey in Capote (2005).
Chris’s most acclaimed role was as John Laroche in Adaptation (2002). For his portrayal, he won the Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. Adaptation is about the struggles of a screenwriter trying to adapt a non-fiction book about a rare orchid dealer (John Laroche) into a screenplay. In addition to winning the Oscar, Chris won 11 best supporting actor awards for this role from other critics associations. He also won the Screen Actors Guild award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Theatrical Motion Picture for his role in American Beauty. All in all, Chris has received 20 awards and has been nominated for 18 others.
In addition to Remember Me, there are more films with Chris that are in production. Chris has two other films (The Company Men and The Tempest) that are in post-production and one film (The Road Back) that is in development.
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