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 against-all-odds, 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 On-Screen 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 Graham's characters. In 2013 Cooper co-wrote 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 co-wrote 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 Reitman's The Front Runner alongside Hugh Jackman as young campaign aid Joe Trippi; and as Todd Krizelman, co-founder of the globe.com in Matthew Carnahan's National Geographic mini series Valley Of The Boom. Oliver also made a memorable appearance in season 2 of David Fincher's critically acclaimed Netflix series, Mindhunter, as infamous serial killer David Berkowitz aka The Son of Sam.
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Biography from TMDB.
- December 2, 1989 (36)
- Toledo, Ohio, USA
- Actor, also producer and writer
- 27 on MovieCove · 39 credits in all
What are Oliver Cooper's films like?
Across their 16 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 3 · Earnest 10
A split, not a type: Light 7 · Serious 4 · Dark 3
Grounded 9 · Stylized 4 · Heightened 1
Gentle 4 · Charged 5 · Intense 5
A split, not a type: Steady 6 · Shifting 5 · Whiplash 3
Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 5 · Funny 5
Slow burn 4 · Even-paced 7 · Relentless 3
A split, not a type: Casual 5 · Engaged 8 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 6 · Affecting 6 · Heavy 1
Resolved 11 · Open-ended 3 · Ambiguous 0
Roles they play
Usually the Trickster: 4 of 9 analyzed roles.
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- Tricksteras Costa in Project X (2012)
- Allyas Andrew Cronin in Runner Runner (2013)
- Tricksteras Wheeler in Red Oaks (2014)
- Heroas Todd Krizelman in Valley of the Boom (2019)
- Tricksteras Stewart in Echo Boomers (2020)
- Tricksteras Chaz Gold in Beyond Paranormal (2021)
- Allyas Charles in Take Me to Tarzana (2021)
- Allyas Bruce in As We Know It (2023)
- Heraldas Sammy in Burt (2025)
Moods and endings
- Happy3
- Bittersweet7
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous3
- Other1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Oliver Cooper's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 21 of their 27 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (8).
Subscription and free streaming for Oliver Cooper's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
39 credits, 27 with a MovieCove page.
Soulm8te(2026)
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
Dadda (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
The Lemurian Candidate (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Stealing Pulp Fiction(2024)
Midcredits score: 9th percentile of all films
Burt(2025)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
I Love You Forever(2024)
Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films
Baby Blue(2023)
Midcredits score: 11th percentile of all films
Sleuthhound Screwball (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Clawfoot(2023)
Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all films
As We Know It(2023)
Midcredits score: 11th percentile of all films
Helen's Dead (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
R (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Ghostbusters: Afterlife(2021)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
The Cleaner(2021)
Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films
Beyond Paranormal(2021)
Midcredits score: 5th percentile of all films
Take Me to Tarzana(2021)
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
Echo Boomers(2020)
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films
The Swing of Things(2020)
Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all films
Desert Quarantine (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Valley of the Boom(2019)
Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all shows
The Front Runner(2018)
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films
Another Cancer Movie (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
White Famous(2017)
Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all shows
Mindhunter(2017)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all shows
Office Christmas Party(2016)
Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films
MacGyver(2016)
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all shows
Burying the Ex(2014)
Midcredits score: 18th percentile of all films
Red Oaks(2014)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
Runner Runner(2013)
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films
The Goldbergs(2013)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all shows
Four Dogs (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
The Hangover Part III(2013)
Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all films
Project X(2012)
Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films
Californication(2007)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all showsBad Day For Bigfoot (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Desert Flowers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
The Beach Player (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
The Coop (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Star power in the 95th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 39 titles, 35 of them dated from 2007 to 2026; peak year 2012.
Film career
Peak 2012 · fewer prominent film roles lately. Top draw in 3 MovieCove titles. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 2007Screen debut· Californication
- 2012First film· Project X
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30; the columns are the share of top-billed roles in each era, 5-year spans from the year on the label, merged until each holds at least 5 roles.
How do Oliver Cooper's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 33rd percentile, the median of all 20; across their 14 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 28th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up6
- 50th to 74th4
- 25th to 49th7
- Below 25th10
Shape of the crowd
11 of their 27 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved2
- Universally Panned1
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser6
- Broadly Agreed6
- Mixed11
Reviewers score the acting 62/100 in their films, across 14 reviewed titles; fans 74, detractors 35. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Oliver Cooper's work okay for kids?
Across up to 5 MovieCove titles with content scores, sex & nudity runs heavier than most films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Oliver Cooper work with?
People who share at least 2 of Oliver Cooper's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; John Karna shares the most, 2.
Actors
- John KarnaShared titles: Burt (2025), Valley of the Boom (2019)See all 2 shared titles with John Karna
- Cazzie DavidShared titles: I Love You Forever (2024), Stealing Pulp Fiction (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Cazzie David
- Jon RudnitskyShared titles: I Love You Forever (2024), Stealing Pulp Fiction (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Jon Rudnitsky
Editors
- Natalie ToppinoShared titles: I Love You Forever (2024), Stealing Pulp Fiction (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Natalie Toppino
