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English <a href="/biography/dominic-cooper">actor</a> <a href="/biography/dominic-cooper">Dominic Edward Cooper</a> was born on June 2, 1978 in Greenwich, London in the family of his father Brian Cooper who worked as an auctioneer and his mother Julie Cooper who served as a teacher. His great-grandfather E. T. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Thomas_Heron">Heron</a> was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Thomas_Heron">publicist</a>, he created a trade newspaper “The Kinematograph Weekly”, where he described all the news of the film industry. It is possible, that exactly Dominic’s great-grandfather inspired him to become an actor.

Dominic Cooper's first school was Thomas Tallis School in London. Then he attended London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and John Ball Primary School. After graduation in 2000 he, started his career as an actor in film industry, TV and theatre at the same time. In 2001, he participated in film From Hell where he played minor role of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constable">Constable</a>. The same year he debuted on TV in the series The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells and Band of Brothers. That were just an episodic roles, but along with his debut on the stage Mother Clap's Molly House he broke into the entertainment industry and anyone could said, that he would have a big future.

His first noticeable role was in the play The History Boys, where he portrayed Dakin. For this play, he was nominated on Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. The play was so successful, that in 2006 BBC Two Films along with DNA Films and UK Film Council released film version of the play with the same title The History Boys. In the film, Dominic Cooper played the same role of Dakin. The film was more successful than the play, and brought to Dominic three nominations: Empire Award for Best Male Newcomer, British Independent Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer and ALFS Award for British Supporting Actor of the Year.

In 2008 he played in musical romantic comedy film “Mamma Mia!”, where he portrayed Sky. This film didn’t bring him any nomination or award, but it became very popular. “Mamma Mia!” gathered almost 610 million dollars box office, and made Dominic Cooper a sex symbol for young women in England.

Dominic got his next nomination in 2009 for the role of Danny in a drama An Education. He was nominated on the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance.

After 2010 he frequently received leading roles in such movies as The Devil's Double, Need for Speed, Reasonable Doubt (with <a href="/biography/samuel-l-jackson">Samuel L. Jackson</a>) and Agent Carter. He also had a great role of a vampire Henry Sturges in an American horror film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

His the most recent roles were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Custer">Jesse Custer</a> in the TV series Preacher aired on AMC and John Stratton in the thriller film Stratton: First Into Action. At this time, Dominic’s net worth is estimated to be five million dollars.

According to the open sources, he has not been married and he remains single now. There are no information on the internet about his girlfriends as well. It you are interested in the details of his life, you can visit his page on Twitter of Facebook.

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