Chuck Cooper
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
Credits
- 2023 · Poker Face as Deuteronomy
- 2022 · The First Lady as Martin Luther King Sr.
- 2021 · tick, tick... BOOM! as "Sunday" Legend #1
- 2021 · Vacation Friends as Larry
- 2020 · Power Book II: Ghost as Reverend Macedon
- 2020 · Little Voice as Percy
- 2019 · The Public's Much Ado About Nothing as Leonato
- 2019 · A Vigilante as Lawyer
- 2018 · God Friended Me as Larry
- 2018 · New Amsterdam as Leon Hargrow
- 2017 · The Blacklist: Redemption as General Phillips
- 2016 · Bull as Judge Elmendorf
- 2015 · Act One: Live from Lincoln Center as Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston Hughes
- 2014 · Romeo and Juliet as Lord Capulet
- 2013 · House of Cards as Barney Hull
- 2009 · White Collar as Parole Officer
- 2009 · The Good Wife as Gerard Gallo
- 2007 · Noise as Judge Gibson
- 2007 · American Gangster as Private Doctor
- 2007 · Gossip Girl as Horace Rogers
- 2007 · Evening as Ray
- 2007 · Chapter 27 as Cabbie
- 2006 · A Crime as Will
- 2006 · Find Me Guilty as James Washington
- 2004 · Downtown: A Street Tale as Sergeant Williams
- 2002 · Hack as Hayden
- 2002 · Without a Trace as Barry's Ex-Boss
- 2001 · 100 Centre Street as Charlie the Bridgeman
- 2000 · The Opportunists as Arnon Morris
- 2000 · Our Song as Benjamin
- 1999 · Third Watch as Lieutenant Kyle
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Mr. Tassler
- 1999 · The Hurricane as Earl Martin
- 1999 · Strangers with Candy as Sack Race Referee
- 1999 · Gloria as Male Guard
- 1997 · The Peacemaker as NYPD Cop
- 1996 · The Juror as Stockbroker
- 1994 · New York Undercover as Sawyer
- 1994 · North as Umpire
- 1993 · NYPD Blue as Bus Driver
- 1992 · Malcolm X as Customer
- 1990 · Law & Order as Walters' Attorney
- 1990 · Law & Order as Art Samuels
- 1990 · Law & Order as Lester Poole
- 1990 · Law & Order as Rolando August
- 1990 · Law & Order as Drew MacDaniel
- 1990 · Criminal Justice as Judge Whitney
- 1987 · Action Family as Cop
- Future · After All as
- Future · Road Show as Papa Mizner