Chris Cooper
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"Christopher W. "Chris" Cooper" is an American film actor. He became well known in the late 1990s. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including the drama American Beauty (1999 film)/American Beauty (1999), the biopic about a NASA engineer, October Sky (1999), the action spy film The Bourne Identity (2002 film)/The Bourne Identity (2002), the biographical sports psychological-drama thriller film Seabiscuit (film)/Seabiscuit (2003), the biographical film about Truman Capote, Capote (film)/Capote (2005), the geopolitical thriller Syriana (2005), the action-thriller The Kingdom (film)/The Kingdom (2007), the crime drama The Town (2010 film)/The Town (2010), and the musical comedy film The Muppets (film)/The Muppets (2011).

Cooper won both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor/Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture/Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the comedy-drama metafilm Adaptation (film)/Adaptation (2002). He played a lead role in the historical and political thriller Breach (film)/Breach (2007), playing FBI agent and traitor Robert Hanssen. He played Daniel Sloan in the 2012 political action thriller The Company You Keep (film)/The Company You Keep, and supervillain Norman Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014).

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I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

Unfortunately, when a violation is brought to our attention, state law does not provide flexibility.

The DOT wants to work with all of our communities and has no intention of trying to hurt anything that is as important to the state as that tennis tournament.

The DOT has provided the city with information on how to legally apply for those signs to be posted to promote the Pilot Pen.

I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combination of being very aware of them, and not trusting them.

You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.

I'm thrilled with my body of work.

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.