Bradley Cooper

Bradley Charles Cooper born January 5 1975 is an American actor and filmmaker He is the recipient of various accolades including a British Academy Film Award and two Grammy Awards in addition to nominations for nine Academy Awards six Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award Cooper appeared on the Forbes Celebrity 100 three times and on Times list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2015 His films have grossed 11 billion worldwide and he has placed four times in annual rankings of the worlds highestpaid actors Cooper enrolled in the MFA program at the Actors Studio in 2000 after beginning his career in 1999 with a guest role in the television series Sex and the City He made his film debut in the comedy Wet Hot American Summer 2001 He first gained recognition as Will Tippin in the spyaction television show Alias 20012006 and achieved minor success with a supporting part in the comedy film Wedding Crashers 2005 His breakthrough role came in 2009 with The Hangover a critically and commercially successful comedy which spawned two sequels in 2011 and 2013 Coopers portrayal of a struggling writer in the thriller Limitless 2011 and a rookie police officer in the crime drama The Place Beyond the Pines 2012 drew praise from critics Cooper found greater success with the romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook 2012 the black comedy American Hustle 2013 and the war biopic American Sniper 2014 which he also produced For his work in these films he was nominated for four Academy Awards becoming the tenth actor to receive an Oscar nomination in three consecutive years In 2014 he portrayed Joseph Merrick in a Broadway revival of The Elephant Man garnering a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and began voicing Rocket Raccoon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe In 2018 Cooper produced wrote directed and starred in a remake of the musical romance A Star Is Born He earned three Oscar nominations for the film as well as a BAFTA Award and two Grammys for his contributions to its US Billboard 200 number one soundtrack and its charttopping lead single Shallow He gained Academy Award nominations for producing Joker 2019 and Nightmare Alley 2021 Labeled a sex symbol by the media Cooper was named People magazines Sexiest Man Alive in 2011 He supports several charities that help fight cancer Cooper was briefly married to actress Jennifer Esposito and has a daughter from his relationship with model Irina Shayk