Is a veteran of nine Broadway plays and musicals and numerous television guest leads and film appearances over the span of his 30 years as a professional actor. He won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a musical for his portrayal of Memphis in The Life. His other Broadway credits include: Lennon; Caroline Or Change (Audelco Award, Best Featured Actor); Chicago; Passion; Someone to Watch Over Me; Rumors; Amen Corner; Getting Away With Murder. National tours: The Tap Dance Kid; Eubie; and Whistle Down the Wind. Off-Broadway: Caroline Or Change (the Public Theatre); Thunder Knocking On The Door (Minetta Lane, Audelco Nomination); Marco Polo Sings a Solo (Signature Theatre); Avenue X; Police Boys; Four Short Operas (Playwrights Horizons); Colored People's Time (Negro Ensemble Co.); King Island Christmas (SIR Studios); Regional Theatre: Being Alive (Westport Country Playhouse); Dance of the Holy Ghosts (Yale Rep); The World Beyond the Hill (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Robeson (Passage Theatre); Thunder Knocking On The Door (Trinity Repertory); Othello (New Jersey Shakespeare Festival); Julius Caesar (Philadelphia Drama Guild); The Doctor Is Out, Coriolanus, Timon Of Athens, Two Trains Running,(San Diego Critics Circle Award, The Old Globe Theatre); The Tempest, American Dreams Lost And Found (Alliance Theatre). Television credits: 3 LBS; Hack; 100 Centre Street; Law & Order; Law And Order SVU; Oz; Strangers with Candy; NYPD Blue; Cosby; The Cosby Mysteries; New York Undercover; I'll Fly Away; The Bold and the Beautiful; As The World Turns. Film credits: Noise; Evening; American Gangster; Find Me Guilty; Three Days of Rain; Our Song; The Hurricane; The Opportunists; Gloria; The Peacemaker; The Juror; North; Criminal Justice. Mr. Cooper is a Beinecke Fellow at the Yale school of drama.
Favorite role: Eddie, Alex and Lilli's father. www.chuckcooper.net
Is a veteran of nine Broadway plays and musicals and numerous television guest leads and film appearances over the span of his 30 years as a professional actor. He won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a musical for his portrayal of Memphis in The Life. His other Broadway credits include: Lennon; Caroline Or Change (Audelco Award, Best Featured Actor); Chicago; Passion; Someone to Watch Over Me; Rumors; Amen Corner; Getting Away With Murder. National tours: The Tap Dance Kid; Eubie; and Whistle Down the Wind. Off-Broadway: Caroline Or Change (the Public Theatre); Thunder Knocking On The Door (Minetta Lane, Audelco Nomination); Marco Polo Sings a Solo (Signature Theatre); Avenue X; Police Boys; Four Short Operas (Playwrights Horizons); Colored People's Time (Negro Ensemble Co.); King Island Christmas (SIR Studios); Regional Theatre: Being Alive (Westport Country Playhouse); Dance of the Holy Ghosts (Yale Rep); The World Beyond the Hill (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Robeson (Passage Theatre); Thunder Knocking On The Door (Trinity Repertory); Othello (New Jersey Shakespeare Festival); Julius Caesar (Philadelphia Drama Guild); The Doctor Is Out, Coriolanus, Timon Of Athens, Two Trains Running,(San Diego Critics Circle Award, The Old Globe Theatre); The Tempest, American Dreams Lost And Found (Alliance Theatre). Television credits: 3 LBS; Hack; 100 Centre Street; Law & Order; Law And Order SVU; Oz; Strangers with Candy; NYPD Blue; Cosby; The Cosby Mysteries; New York Undercover; I'll Fly Away; The Bold and the Beautiful; As The World Turns. Film credits: Noise; Evening; American Gangster; Find Me Guilty; Three Days of Rain; Our Song; The Hurricane; The Opportunists; Gloria; The Peacemaker; The Juror; North; Criminal Justice. Mr. Cooper is a Beinecke Fellow at the Yale school of drama.