Chuck Cooper

Known for ActingBorn 1954-11-08 (age 71)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 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).Read more

Movies & web series

New Amsterdam

Power Book II: Ghost

White Collar

100 Centre Street

Gossip Girl

House of Cards

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Third Watch

God Friended Me

tick, tick... BOOM!

Hack

The Public's Much Ado About Nothing

The Good Wife

Poker Face

American Gangster

Little Voice

Strangers with Candy

Malcolm X

The Hurricane

New York Undercover

Bull

Without a Trace

Vacation Friends

Law & Order

Nurse Jackie

Madam Secretary

Our Song

NYPD Blue

Action Family

The Blacklist: Redemption

Find Me Guilty

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

Sweet Nothing

Romeo and Juliet

The Peacemaker

The First Lady

Gloria

Criminal Justice

Noise

Evening

The Opportunists

The Juror

A Crime

A Vigilante

Downtown: A Street Tale

Chapter 27

North

Act One: Live from Lincoln Center