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