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 OffBroadway Thunder Knocking On The door Marco Polo Sings a Solo Jawbone Avenue X Police Boys and Colored Peoples 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 Ill Fly Away The Bold and the Beautiful and as Charlie the Bridge Man in the AE 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