Bradley Cooper Biography

His full name is Bradley Charles Cooper, he was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the United States on January 5th, 1975. He is an actor and former model. He is of Irish and Italian ascendance. His mother is Gloria Campano, who worked for the local NBC. His father was Charles Cooper (died January 15, 2011), who served as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch. He has an older sister named Holly and was raised based on the Catholic religion.

 

Cooper completed his secondary studies in 1997 at the Germantown Academy (Fort Washington, Pennsylvania). Nicknames “Coop” and “Brad” studied English Language and Literature at Georgetown University and studied acting at the Actors Studio Drama School at New School University in New York after previously attending the Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. While studying, he worked at the Philadelphia Daily News and also served as a doorman at the Morgans Hotel.

 

His debut on the small screen was with the hit series “Sex and the city” (1999), then he obtained numerous roles in other television series, before achieving fame playing Will Tippin in “Alias”, a television series created by JJ Abrams in which he shared the limelight with Jennifer Garner. Other television series, among the many he has been in, are: “The Street”, “Touching Evil”, “Jack and Bobby”, “Kitchen Confidential” and “Nip / Tuck”. As for his appearance on the big screen, he debuted with the feature film “Wet Hot American Sumer” (2001). Later, he could be seen in other films of the comedy genre: “Wedding Crashers” (2005), “Failure to launch” (2006), “The Rocker” (2008), and “He is not just that into you” (2009).

 

Among his works, movies such as: “The hangover” (2009), where he gave life to Phil Wenneck, who travels with some friends to the so-called Sin City to participate in a bachelor party. Two years later he repeated the character in “The Hangover 2, Now in Thailand! ” (2011) and later in “The Hangover part 3 ”(2013). In the comedy “He is not just that into you” (2009) was Ben, husband of the character played by Jennifer Connelly and lover of the character of Scarlett Johansson, while that same year, in “All About Steve” (2009) he played Steve, a cameraman who falls in love with the character of Sandra Bullock.

 

Later, in “The A-Team” (2010) he was in charge of bringing Templeton Peck to life on the big screen, in “Limitless” (2011) he played a writer who consumed an experimental drug that increased his creativity and in another comedy: “Silver lining playbook” (2012) was a co-star of Jennifer Lawrence, who two years later became his wife in a marriage drama set at the time of the Great Depression: “Serena” (2014). That same year, he became the protagonist of “The Sniper” (2014) by the great Clint Eastwood. A year later, he returned to make a collaboration with Jennifer Lawrence in “Joy” (2015) playing a telesales expert and participated in “Game Of Arms” (2016). In addition to all this, he has also participated in western-type films such as “The last cowboy” and has worked with several great actors such as Matthew McConaughey in the movie “Failure to lunch” and with Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck, and Drew Barrymore in “He’s Not Just That Into You “.

 

Regarding his personal life, Bradley Cooper married actress Jennifer Esposito in 2006

. A year after the wedding, the couple decided to divorce. Later, he was romantically involved with actresses Renée Zellweger and Zoe Saldana, and also with model Suki Waterhouse. Currently, he is in a relationship with model Irina Shayk, with whom he had a son in 2017. His work on “Silver Linings Playbook” led to his first Oscar nomination in the Best Actor category, and he was nominated again, in the next two years, for his roles in Hustle (2013) and the drama biographical American Sniper (2014).

 

As a fun fact, it is known that Cooper’s favorite actor is Daniel Day-Lewis, who can speak French fluently, who off-screen, is a great lover of animals, who has two dogs that he rescued from the street named: Samson and Charlotte, and also, who loves to cook. He is currently immersed in a new adaptation of “A Star Is Born”, in which he is the director, and which will also star, along with the renowned singer and actress: Lady Gaga, also in charge of composing the soundtrack. It is intended that the premiere of the film will take place on September 26, 2018.