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Home/People/Chuck Cooper
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Born
Nov 8, 1954
Age 71
Place of Birth
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male

Career Highlights

27
Movies
27
TV Shows
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Chuck Cooper

Acting

Biography
Won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his portrayal of Memphis in The Life. His other Broadway credits include: Chicago, Passion, Someone to Watch Over Me, Rumors, Amen Corner, Getting Away With Murder, and Badfoot in St. Louis Woman, in City Centers acclaimed Encore series. National tours: The Tap Dance Kid, Eubie and Whistle Down the Wind. Off-Broadway: Thunder Knocking On The door, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Jawbone, Avenue X, Police Boys and Colored People's Time. Regional Theatre: Paul Robeson in Paul Robeson at the Passage Theatre, Thunder Knocking On The Door at Trinity Repertory, The Doctor is Out, Othello in Othello at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Brutus in Julius Caesar at the Philadelphia Drama Guild, Tullus Aufidius in Coriolanus at the Old Globe Theatre and Caliban in The Tempest at the Alliance Theatre Company. Television credits include Law & Order, Oz, Strangers with Candy, NYPD Blue, Cosby, The Cosby Mysteries, New York Undercover, I'll Fly Away, The Bold and the Beautiful and as Charlie the Bridge Man in the A&E series 100 Centre Street. His most recent film credits are _3 Days of Rain (2000)_, Our Song (2000), Gloria (1999), The Peacemaker (1997), The Juror (1996) and The Hurricane (1999).
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as "Sunday" Legend #1
2021
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Vacation Friends

as Larry
2021
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The Public's Much Ado About Nothing

as Leonato
2019
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Road Show

as Papa Mizner
2019
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A Vigilante

as Lawyer
2019
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Act One: Live from Lincoln Center

as Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston Hughes
2015
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Romeo and Juliet

as Lord Capulet
2014
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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

as Chauncey Eskridge
2013
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Noise

as Judge Gibson
2007
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American Gangster

as Private Doctor
2007
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Evening

as Ray
2007
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Chapter 27

as Cabbie
2007
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A Crime

as Will
2006
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Find Me Guilty

as James Washington
2006
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Downtown: A Street Tale

as Sergeant Williams
2004
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The Opportunists

as Arnon Morris
2000
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Our Song

as Benjamin
2000
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The Hurricane

as Earl Martin
1999
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Gloria

as Male Guard
1999
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The Peacemaker

as NYPD Cop
1997