Bradley Cooper

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American actor and producer who has been nominated for four Academy Awards, three for acting and one for producing, and one Tony Award. He was named the "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine in 2011. Cooper has a B.A. in English from Georgetown University (1997) and an MFA in acting from Actors Studio Drama School at The New School (2000). He first gained recognition in the spy-action television show Alias and the television drama Jack & Bobby. He later appeared in supporting roles in the romantic comedies Wedding Crashers (2005), Yes Man (2008), and He's Just Not That Into You (2009). His breakthrough role came with the comedy franchise The Hangover trilogy (2009–13). Other notable films include the action-comedy The A-Team (2010), the thriller Limitless (2011), the crime drama The Place Beyond the Pines (2013), and the superhero film Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), in which he voiced Rocket Raccoon. Cooper garnered three consecutive Oscar nominations from 2013 to 2015 for his roles in the romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook (2012), the comedy-drama American Hustle (2013), and the biographical war drama American Sniper (2014). For producing American Sniper, Cooper also received an Academy Award for Best Picture nomination. For starring in the 2014 Broadway revival of the play The Elephant Man, Cooper garnered a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination. In October 2006, Cooper became engaged to actress Jennifer Esposito. The couple married later that December. In May 2007, Esposito filed for a divorce that was finalized in November. Cooper dated Zoe Saldana from December 2011 to January 2013, then English model Suki Waterhouse from March 2013 to March 2015. Cooper began a relationship with Russian model Irina Shayk the following month. On 21 March 2017 at 7:49 AM in Los Angeles, Cooper and Shayk welcomed their first child, a daughter named Lea de Seine Shayk Cooper. Link to Wikipedia biography