Was a medalist on the Men's Heavyweight Crew team at Georgetown University.
Had to miss his graduation commencement to film Wet Hot American Summer (2001).
Considers Daniel Day-Lewis the world's greatest actor.
He attended Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania and graduated in 1993.
His father is of Irish heritage and his mother is of Italian heritage.
Bradley Cooper Detailed Biography
Bradley Cooper (born January 5, 1975, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), is a film, stage, and television actor.
Cooper studied at the Actors Studio Drama School at New School University before beginning 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 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.
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.
Cooper is an alumnus of Georgetown University, where he graduated from the Honors English program in 1997, and Germantown Academy, where he graduated in 1992.
