English actor Dominic Edward Cooper is known for his role in the first and second parts of the musical "Mamma MIA!" He also starred in the films "The Duchess", "Education of the Senses" and "Miss You Already." Dominic was invited to the TV series "Sense and Sensibility", "Preacher" and "Brothers in Arms".
Biography
Dominic celebrates his birthday on June 2nd. He was born in 1978 in London. He grew up in the family of a kindergarten teacher and auction worker. The actor's mother is Julie Heron, and his father is Brian Cooper. Dominic was educated at Thomas Tallis School. It is a mixed general education institution in Greenwich, from which choreographer Ihsan Rustem, poet Keith Tempest, football player Amadou Cassarate and actor Simon Day graduated. Then Cooper entered the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. This is the oldest theater school, which retained its original name, but after the Second World War, it ceased to provide services for teaching music. Dominic graduated in 2000. Then Cooper began acting in commercials, among which were illegal advertisements for condoms.
Dominic was invited to television and movies for cameo roles. Since 2001, he began to participate in theatrical productions of the National London Theater. In Lovers of History, Cooper played Dakin. For this role, he received awards, such as the "Empire" statuette. In the future, he played this hero in the film adaptation of the play. Cooper toured with a theater company and performed on Broadway and Sydney, Wellington and Hong Kong. Then he took part in the recording of a radio play.
Personal life
In 2007, on the set of the film "Mamma MIA!" Cooper began an affair with his partner Amanda Seyfried. It is worth noting that at the time of the beginning of the relationship, both actors were not free, but their passion became stronger than reason. The romance developed rapidly, and the couple even announced their engagement. But then life in different countries, busy work schedules and Dominic's meeting with another actress destroyed the relationship with Amanda.
In 2009, Cooper re-entered a relationship with a partner in the game. She was an actress with Ethiopian roots, Ruth Negga. For a while, Dominic could not choose between Amanda and Ruth. He sometimes returned to Seyfried, then again went to Negg. In 2010, his relationship with Ruth took a serious turn. They lived together in London. With Amanda, Cooper managed to maintain a tender friendship. Seyfried really appreciates Dominic and says that she could not stop all communication with him. For several years, the Cooper-Negga couple met, but in the spring of 2018, the actors still broke up.
Career
The actor began acting in 1995. And until 2006, when he was not invited to the comedy melodrama "Get into the Top Ten" with the famous actor James McAvoy in the title role, Dominic played minor roles. According to the script, the main character is studying at the University of Bristol. Gradually, he ceases to devote all his time to study and gives in to the influence of student-party-goers. Cooper's character is Spencer. At first, his character disposes to himself, but then pushes him away. And it's not about the actor's play, but about the plot. Dominic did an excellent job.
In 2008, the actor got the lead role in the mini-series Sense and Sensibility. The wonderful actresses Charity Wakefield, Hattie Morahan, Janet McTeer and Lucy Boynton starred with him. He later played Charles Gray in a historical melodrama starring Keira Knightley in the title role "The Duchess." The film won an Oscar and a British Academy Award, and was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award.
Then the actor played one of the characters in the drama "Education of the Senses". The plot of the picture is as follows: the main character, a young girl who studies well and plays the cello, is going to go to Oxford. The action takes place in the 1960s. Oxford is the ticket for the heroine from her native provincial town to a better world. However, the girl's plans change after meeting with a wealthy chic gentleman who is much older than her.
A year later, he played the hero in the drama "Free Fall" by Dominic Savage. Dominic's character is broker Dave, who drags the main character into a complex shenanigans. Later he was invited to play the role of Ben in "Irresistible Tamara". In the hero of Dominic, everything is exaggerated and exaggerated, but he played his role perfectly. He reincarnated as a sexy, wealthy guy. But in the film "The Devil's Double", Cooper had to play two characters at once - the main character, who has everything, and his double, whom the hero hires for routine affairs. Gradually, the situation gets out of control, and the double is going to take the place of the original. The film was nominated for Saturn.
The next major role of the actor took place in the film about American President Abraham Lincoln, who became a merciless vampire killer at night. This is a horror movie "President Lincoln: Vampire Hunter". In the crime thriller One Less, Dominic could be seen as Darcy. Her partners were Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace and Terrence Howard. He later played the artist Munnings in the love triangle melodrama Summer in February. The film was presented at the Dinard British Film Festival.
This was followed by several invitations to the main roles. To begin with, he starred as Mitch Brockden in the Canadian-German co-produced crime thriller Reasonable Doubt. According to the scenario, an accident breaks into the everyday life of the prosecutor. The representative of the law accidentally picks up a person to death. Instead, another person becomes accused of murder. Dominic then played the writer Ian Fleming in the biographical miniseries Fleming. Cooper starred in the US-Japanese horror film Dracula, the melodrama Miss You Already with Drew Barrymore and the adventure detective The Preacher. Not without an actor and filming the sequel to the musical “Mamma Mia! 2.
