Chuck Cooper
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 8, 1954 (age 72)
- Birthplace
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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).
Known For
Filmography
After All
Movie
Poker Face
TV · as Deuteronomy · 1 ep
The First Lady
TV · as Martin Luther King Sr. · 1 ep
tick, tick... BOOM!
Movie · as "Sunday" Legend #1
Vacation Friends
Movie · as Larry
Power Book II: Ghost
TV · as Reverend Macedon · 1 ep
Little Voice
TV · as Percy · 6 eps
A Vigilante
Movie · as Lawyer
The Public's Much Ado About Nothing
Movie · as Leonato
New Amsterdam
TV · as Leon Hargrow · 1 ep
God Friended Me
TV · as Larry · 1 ep
The Blacklist: Redemption
TV · as General Phillips · 1 ep
Bull
TV · as Judge Elmendorf · 1 ep
Act One: Live from Lincoln Center
Movie · as Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston Hughes
Romeo and Juliet
Movie · as Lord Capulet
Madam Secretary
TV · as Mitch Sarno · 1 ep
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Movie · as Chauncey Eskridge
House of Cards
TV · as Barney Hull · 3 eps
White Collar
TV · as Parole Officer · 1 ep
The Good Wife
TV · as Gerard Gallo · 1 ep
Nurse Jackie
TV · as Intestine Man · 1 ep
Noise
Movie · as Judge Gibson
American Gangster
Movie · as Private Doctor
Evening
Movie · as Ray
Chapter 27
Movie · as Cabbie
Gossip Girl
TV · as Horace Rogers · 2 eps
A Crime
Movie · as Will
Find Me Guilty
Movie · as James Washington
Downtown: A Street Tale
Movie · as Sergeant Williams
Hack
TV · as Hayden · 1 ep
Without a Trace
TV · as Barry's Ex-Boss · 1 ep
100 Centre Street
TV · as Charlie the Bridgeman · 6 eps
The Opportunists
Movie · as Arnon Morris
Our Song
Movie · as Benjamin
The Hurricane
Movie · as Earl Martin
Gloria
Movie · as Male Guard
Strangers with Candy
TV · as Sack Race Referee · 1 ep
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV · as Mr. Tassler · 1 ep
Third Watch
TV · as Lieutenant Kyle · 1 ep
The Peacemaker
Movie · as NYPD Cop
The Juror
Movie · as Stockbroker
Sweet Nothing
Movie · as Mark the Cop
North
Movie · as Umpire
New York Undercover
TV · as Sawyer · 1 ep
NYPD Blue
TV · as Bus Driver · 1 ep
Malcolm X
Movie · as Customer
Criminal Justice
Movie · as Judge Whitney
Law & Order
TV · as Walters' Attorney, Art Samuels, Lester Poole, Rolando August, Drew MacDaniel · 1 ep
Action Family
Movie · as Cop