WELCOME
 
Chuck Cooper
Won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a musical
for his portrayal of Memphis in The Life.
His 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; Hair
(BCEFA concert event); and St. Louis Woman; (City Centers
acclaimed Encore series).
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: 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, and
Timon Of Athens (The Old Globe Theatre); The Tempest,
American Dreams Lost And Found (Alliance Theatre).
Television credits: "3lbs", "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.
"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is
not quite the occupation of an adult."
– Sir Laurence Olivier
"Acting is merely the act of keeping a large group of
people from coughing."
– Sir Ralph Richardson
"The most important thing in acting is honesty. If
you can fake that, you've got it made."
– George Burns
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