Chuck Cooper

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

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order

The Good Wife

Without a Trace

All Movies (26)

tick, tick... BOOM!2021 · as "Sunday" Legend #1
Vacation Friends2021 · as Larry
The Public's Much Ado About Nothing2019 · as Leonato
A Vigilante2019 · as Lawyer
Act One: Live from Lincoln Center2015 · as Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston Hughes
Romeo and Juliet2014 · as Lord Capulet
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight2013 · as Chauncey Eskridge
Noise2007 · as Judge Gibson
American Gangster2007 · as Private Doctor
Evening2007 · as Ray
Chapter 272007 · as Cabbie
A Crime2006 · as Will
Find Me Guilty2006 · as James Washington
Downtown: A Street Tale2004 · as Sergeant Williams
The Opportunists2000 · as Arnon Morris
Our Song2000 · as Benjamin
The Hurricane1999 · as Earl Martin
Gloria1999 · as Male Guard
The Peacemaker1997 · as NYPD Cop
The Juror1996 · as Stockbroker
Sweet Nothing1995 · as Mark the Cop
North1994 · as Umpire
Malcolm X1992 · as Customer
Criminal Justice1990 · as Judge Whitney
Action Family1987 · as Cop
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All TV Shows (27)

Poker Face2023 · as Deuteronomy
The First Lady2022 · as Martin Luther King Sr.
Power Book II: Ghost2020 · as Reverend Macedon
Little Voice2020 · as Percy
God Friended Me2018 · as Larry
New Amsterdam2018 · as Leon Hargrow
The Blacklist: Redemption2017 · as General Phillips
Bull2016 · as Judge Elmendorf
Madam Secretary2014 · as Mitch Sarno
House of Cards2013 · as Barney Hull
White Collar2009 · as Parole Officer
The Good Wife2009 · as Gerard Gallo
Nurse Jackie2009 · as Intestine Man
Gossip Girl2007 · as Horace Rogers
Hack2002 · as Hayden
Without a Trace2002 · as Barry's Ex-Boss
100 Centre Street2001 · as Charlie the Bridgeman
Third Watch1999 · as Lieutenant Kyle
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1999 · as Mr. Tassler
Strangers with Candy1999 · as Sack Race Referee
New York Undercover1994 · as Sawyer
NYPD Blue1993 · as Bus Driver
Law & Order1990 · as Walters' Attorney
Law & Order1990 · as Art Samuels
Law & Order1990 · as Lester Poole
Law & Order1990 · as Rolando August
Law & Order1990 · as Drew MacDaniel