Bradley Cooper named Sexiest Man Alive
Bradley Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is an American film, theater, and television actor. He is known for his roles in the films The Hangover, The A-Team, and Limitless.
Cooper was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in nearby Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. His mother, Gloria (née Campano), is Italian-American, and his father, Charles J. Cooper, was Irish-American and worked as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch.Cooper was raised Catholic.After graduating from Germantown Academy in 1993, he attended Villanova University for his freshman year, then transferred to Georgetown University, from which he graduated with an honors BA in English in 1997. Cooper became fluent in French at Georgetown and spent six months as an exchange student in Aix-en-Provence, France. Later, in 2000, he received an MFA in acting from Actors Studio Drama School at The New School in New York City
Bradley Cooper seen on the cover for People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive issue -- People
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 02: Actor Bradley Cooper attends the "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 18: Actor Bradley Cooper visits "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" at Rockefeller Center on March 18, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 19: Actor Bradley Cooper arrives at the premiere of Warner Bros. "The Hangover Part II" held at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on May 19, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
Bradley Cooper left, poses with a fan before a semifinal match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
In this publicity image released by Warner Bros., from left, Bradley Cooper, Ken Jeong, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis are shown in a scene from "The Hangover Part II." While most franchise films packed in big crowds, "The Hangover Part II" was one film that did not live up to the domestic returns of its predecessor, "The Hangover." (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures)
In this 1992 photo released by Ancestry.com, actor Bradley Cooper is shown during chemistry class in his junior year at Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, Pa. This is one of several images of celebrities shown before they became famous included in Ancestry.com's U.S. School Yearbook Collection. The genealogy website recently expanded its yearbook database to include nearly 7 million images from thousands of schools in the United States. (AP Photo/Ancestry.com)
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