Henry Lee Hopper is an American actor. He is the son of the late actor and director Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper

Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...

 and actress Katherine LaNasa.

Family and personal life

Hopper was born as Henry Lee Hopper on September 11, 1990, in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

. His mother, Katherine LaNasa, was the fourth wife of his father Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper

Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...

 (May 17, 1936 — May 29, 2010). Hopper has several half–siblings — Marin Hopper (born 1962), the daughter of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward

Brooke Hayward

Brooke Hayward is an American actress and writer.-Early life and career:Born in Los Angeles, Hayward is the eldest, and only surviving, child from the marriage of former agent turned film-, television-, and stage producer Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullavan...

; Ruthanna Hopper (born circa 1974), the daughter of Dennis Hopper and Daria Halprin

Daria Halprin

Daria Halprin is an American psychologist, author, dancer, and former actress known primarily for her naturalistic performances in three films of the late 1960s and early 1970s.-Early life:...

; and Galen Grier Hopper (born 2003), the son of Dennis Hopper and Victoria Duffy. His mother Katherine LaNasa married comedic actor French Stewart

French Stewart

Milton French Stewart , better known by his stage name French Stewart, is an American actor, best known for his role as Harry Solomon on the 1990s sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun.-Early life:...

 on May 19, 1998. They divorced in December 2009, without children. Hopper is also the uncle to Marin Hopper's daughter Violet Goldstone and Ruthanna Hopper's daughter Ella Brill.

Aged fourteen, Hopper started taking weekend acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute

Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute

__notoc__The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute is an acting school located at 115 East 15th Street between Union Square East and Irving Place in the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, as well as at 7936 Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California...

. He later studied painting and sculpture at the California Institute of the Arts

California Institute of the Arts

The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia, in Los Angeles County, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and the...

, but dropped it at the age of eighteen and went to Berlin

Berlin

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, Germany

Germany

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, where he was living in an artist's collective. Hopper currently resides in Venice, California.

Career

Hopper made his acting debut in 1996 film Kiss & Tell by Jordan Alan

Jordan Alan

Jordan Alan is an American film director.In 1987 Alan founded the Terminal Bliss Productions, now owned by Terminal Bliss Pictures. He wrote and directed his first feature, Terminal Bliss, in 1988 and moved to Los Angeles, California. In 1991 he directed Cats Cradle and in 1992, Love and Happiness...

, starring Richmond Arquette

Richmond Arquette

- Background :Arquette was born in New York City, the son of Brenda "Mardi" Olivia , an actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher and therapist, and Lewis Arquette, an actor. Arquette's paternal grandfather was comedian Cliff Arquette...

, Lewis Arquette

Lewis Arquette

Lewis Michael Arquette was an American film actor, writer and producer. Arquette was known for playing "J.D. Pickett" on the TV series, The Waltons, where he worked from 1978–1981.-Life and career:...

, Peter Greene

Peter Greene

Peter Greene is an American character actor.A native of Montclair, New Jersey, Greene did not pursue a career in acting until his mid 20s...

 and Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy

Jillian Noel "Jill" Hennessy is a Canadian actress and musician known for her television roles on Law & Order and Crossing Jordan.-Early life:...

. He portrayed three different small characters. Hopper did not act until 2011, when he was cast as one of the lead stars of Restless

Restless (2011 film)

Restless is a 2011 British-American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Jason Lew. It stars Henry Hopper and Mia Wasikowska. Shot in Portland, Oregon, United States, and produced by Bryce Dallas Howard, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer for Columbia Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, it...

by Gus Van Sant

Gus Van Sant

Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. is an American director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician, and author. He is a two time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director for his 1997 film Good Will Hunting and his 2008 film Milk, both of which were also nominated for Best Picture, and won the...

, opposite Mia Wasikowska

Mia Wasikowska

Mia Wasikowska is an Australian actress. After starting her career in Australian television and film, she first became known to a wider audience following her critically acclaimed work on the HBO television series In Treatment...

 and Ryo Kase

Ryo Kase

is a Japanese actor. He grew up in Bellevue, Washington until he was seven. He portrayed Shimizu, one of the lower-ranked Japanese soldiers, in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima. He starred in Masayuki Suo's film I Just Didn't Do It.-Filmography:...

. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard

Un Certain Regard

Un Certain Regard is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection. It is run at the Salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or.This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob...

 section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival

2011 Cannes Film Festival

The 64th annual Cannes Film Festival was held from May 11 to May 22, 2011. American actor Robert De Niro served as the president of the jury for the main competition and French filmmaker Michel Gondry headed the jury for the short film competition...

, and was released on September 16, 2011 in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

.

Filmography

Title	Year	Role	Notes
Kiss & Tell	1996	Henry / Quinn / Molly's Son	Credited as Henry Lee Hopper
Restless Restless (2011 film) Restless is a 2011 British-American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Jason Lew. It stars Henry Hopper and Mia Wasikowska. Shot in Portland, Oregon, United States, and produced by Bryce Dallas Howard, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer for Columbia Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, it...	2011	Enoch Brae

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