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Chuck Cooper

Acting

1.0 Popularity Nov 08, 1954 (70 years old) Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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 t...

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).

Filmography 52

2023
Poker Face TV

as Deuteronomy

2022
The First Lady TV

as Martin Luther King Sr.

2021
tick, tick... BOOM! Movie

as "Sunday" Legend #1

2021
Vacation Friends Movie

as Larry

2020
Power Book II: Ghost TV

as Reverend Macedon

2020
Little Voice TV

as Percy

2019
A Vigilante Movie

as Lawyer

2018
God Friended Me TV

as Larry

2018
New Amsterdam TV

as Leon Hargrow

2017
The Blacklist: Redemption TV

as General Phillips

2016
Bull TV

as Judge Elmendorf

2015
Act One: Live from Lincoln Center Movie

as Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston Hughes

2014
Madam Secretary TV

as General Mitch Sarno, Commandant of National War College

2014
Romeo and Juliet Movie

as Lord Capulet

2013
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight Movie

as Chauncey Eskridge

2013
House of Cards TV

as Barney Hull

2009
White Collar TV

as Parole Officer

2009
The Good Wife TV

as Gerard Gallo

2007
Noise Movie

as Judge Gibson

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Personal Details

Known For Acting
Gender Not specified
Birthday November 08, 1954 (70 years old)
Place of Birth Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Years Active 1987 - 2023
Popularity 1.0
Career Stats
52 Total Credits
26 Movie Roles
26 TV Roles
1 Photos