Biography
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Bradley Cooper studied at the Actors Studio Drama
School at New School University before beginning his
professional acting career on the television series S--
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 once to Alias as a guest star after leaving the
show in 2003, and also guest-starred on the short-lived
Miss Match in the same year.
Bradley 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 and Bobby (2004-2005). He
played a supporting character in the hit comedy Wedding
Crashers (2005), and next landed a role in the film
Failure to Launch (2006). He has been playing the lead
role in the Fox sitcom Kitchen Confidential, based on a
memoir by chef Anthony Bourdain, which debuted in
September 2005. However, Fox announced in late 2005 that
the series would be cancelled due to low ratings.
In March 2006, Cooper will star in "Three Days of Rain"
on Broadway with Julia Roberts and Paul Rudd at the
Bernard B Jacobs Theater.
Bradley Cooperis an alumnus of Georgetown University,
where he graduated from the Honors English program in
1997, and Germantown Academy, where he graduated in
1992.

Film List
- Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
- Alias — TV series (2001-2003)
- My Little Eye (2002)
- Carnival Knowledge (2002)
- I Want to Marry Ryan Banks — TV (2004)
- Jack and Bobby (2004-2005)
- Wedding Crashers (2005)
- Kitchen Confidential — TV series (2005-present)
