ِِِAn American film, stage, and television actor of Italian ancestry best known for rolling Phil Wenneck in Wedding Crashers.
He has graduated from Germantown Academy in 1993, then attended Georgetown University. He began his professional acting career on the television series Sex and the City in 1998. He also served as the host of Lonely Planet's Treks in a Wild World in 2000, and made his film debut in Wet Hot American Summer (2001), before landing his best-known role as Will Tippin in the successful television drama Alias (2001–2003). He returned twice to Alias as a guest star after leaving the show in 2003, and he also guest-starred on the short-lived TV series Miss Match in the same year. Cooper starred in the ABC Family movie I Want to Marry Ryan Banks (2004), and appeared as a regular guest star in the WB series Jack & Bobby. He played the villain in the hit comedy Wedding Crashers (2005) and appeared in the film Failure to Launch (2006) as a friend of Matthew McConaughey's character. Cooper played the lead role in the Fox sitcom Kitchen Confidential, based on a memoir by chef Anthony Bourdain, which debuted in September 2005.
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