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Born
January 5, 1975 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Birth name
Bradley Charles Cooper

Spouse
Jennifer Esposito (December 21, 2006 – November 10, 2007) (divorced)

QUOTES:

There was a lot of Sack Lodges at my high school. – Sack Lodge is his character from Wedding Crashers (2005).

[on getting the script for Kitchen Confidential (2005)] I was in New York shooting Law & Order (1990) and the script came along, and I completely connected to it. From the first page, when he says, “Ever since I was eight years old, I knew what I wanted to be.” When I was eight years old, I wanted to be a chef or an actor. I used to cook all the time. I worked in restaurants the first half of my life. (November 2005)

I had size 12 feet when I was 10, so I thought I was going to be 6′ 8″. My goal was to be able to dunk a basket. I wound up being 6′ 1″ with size 14 feet. I got the raw end of the deal.

[2010, on his younger years] I never lived the life of “Oh, you’re so good-looking.” People thought I was a girl when I was little, because I looked like a girl – maybe because my mother would keep my hair really long in a bowl cut. I was in a coffee shop once and the waitress was like “What do you want, Miss?” I was 10 or 11 – the worst age to have that happen. I had a jean jacket on and a Metallica pin. I thought I was really cool.