A rough-cut British actor with a dark and slightly brooding presence, Dominic Cooper initially cut his chops on the London and Gotham stages, with two very different roles: adventurer Will Parry in the Royal National Theatre's epic production of Philip_Pullman's iconoclastic fantasy +His Dark Materials, and that of the womanizer Dakin in the Broadway run of Alan_Bennett's +The History Boys. Cooper earned favorable notices for each; the success of Boys prompted BBC Two Films and Fox Searchlight to launch a film adaptation in late 2006, also featuring Cooper.


Though Boys scarcely represented Cooper's cinematic debut (he appeared in Neil_Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto a couple of years prior, among other films), it did prove a watershed, spurring the young actor on to additional film work. In subsequent years, the thespian played Willoughby in John_Alexander's U.K. television miniseries Sense and Sensibility (2008), adapted from the novel by Jane_Austen; cut against type as an imprisoned white-collar criminal in the Wyatt Brothers' thriller The_Escapist (2008); and essayed a supporting role as Sky, Sophie's (Amanda_Seyfried) fiancé, in Phyllida_Lloyd's big-screen ABBA musical Mamma_Mia! (2008). Nathan Southern, Rovi

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