Oliver Cooper

Oliver Cooper was born on December 2 1989 in Toledo Ohio In 2009 at the age of 19 he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an actor and quickly landed an internship at CONAN While taking an acting class a fellow classmate told him that Warner Brothers was looking for fresh young faces to star in the Todd Phillips produced Project X and that Cooper would be perfect With no representation Oliver enlisted his friend a former child star Shaun Weiss to help him secure an audition Judd Apatow who had worked with Weiss on Heavyweights put in a call to the casting office With a head shot taken on a cell phone camera and againstallodds Cooper landed one of the lead roles in his very first audition His debut performance as Costa earned him two MTV Movie Award nominations for Best Comedic Performance and Best OnScreen Dirtbag Following up on the success of Project X Oliver booked a supporting role in Runner Runner opposite Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck as well as a season arc on the popular Showtime series Californication as Levon the illegitimate son of David Duchovny and Heather Grahams characters In 2013 Cooper cowrote and produced Four Dogs with his frequent collaborator Joe Burke who also directed the film It premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival to rave reviews and is available to stream on Amazon Prime Shortly thereafter he developed a pilot for Comedy Central called The King of Chicago which he cowrote with Cody Oz and produced alongside Scott Stuber Oliver has since gone on to star in many shows and movies highlighted by his role as Wheeler the stoner with a heart of gold in the three season Amazon series Red Oaks produced by Steven Soderbergh and directed by David Gordon Green In 2018 Cooper appeared in Jason Reitmans The Front Runner alongside Hugh Jackman as young campaign aid Joe Trippi and as Todd Krizelman cofounder of the globecom in Matthew Carnahans National Geographic mini series Valley Of The Boom Oliver also made a memorable appearance in season 2 of David Finchers critically acclaimed Netflix series Mindhunter as infamous serial killer David Berkowitz aka The Son of Sam