Jeff Coopwood Biography
Jeff Coopwood is an actor, singer, broadcaster, and educator from the United States. Following graduation, he appeared throughout the country in the Broadway National Tour of “Timbuktu!,” starring the renowned Eartha Kitt, and has since starred in a number of notable stage shows in theatres across the United States and Canada.
Jeff Coopwood Age
Jeff was born on June 29, 1958, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is 65 years old as of June 2023.
Jeff Coopwood Education
He graduated from Miami High School after attending Archbishop Curley High School. Coopwood earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre from the University of Miami, a private university in Coral Gables, Florida. While pursuing a B.F.A. He also obtained a Master of Arts degree, with distinction, from the California State University, Dominguez Hills, in Carson, California.
Jeff Coopwood Family
Coopwood was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Miami, Florida the son of Louise Riley and Jesse Coopwood. His mother was a former gospel radio broadcaster, and talk show hostess in markets from Chicago and Texas.
Jeff Coopwood Career
He also sang for four seasons with the Greater Miami Opera, now the Florida Grand Opera, where he worked with international artists such as Luciano Pavarotti, Jon Vickers, Cesare Siepi, James Morris, Dominic Cossa, Joanna Simon, Judith Blegen, Tatiana Troyanos, Renata Scotto, Mirella Freni, and Plácido Domingo, to name a few. Following graduation, he appeared throughout the country in the Broadway National Tour of “Timbuktu!,” starring the renowned Eartha Kitt, and has since starred in a number of notable stage shows in theatres across the United States and Canada. Coopwood went on to teach, coach, and speak in speech and debate at numerous high schools and colleges around the country, including Harvard, Northwestern, Georgetown, Marquette, and Emory University.
His pupils won multiple regional, state, and national championships in speech and debate at both the high school and college levels during his coaching tenure, and he was selected National Coach of the Year twice. When he returned to Chicago, he was the Emmy-nominated original host of the $100,000 Fortune Hunt and Know Your Heritage, both nationally syndicated television game programs that predominantly aired on Chicago television station and cable superstation WGN-TV. After relocating to Los Angeles, he attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied broadcast journalism and television production. For several years, he was a regular host of pledge campaigns for KCET, a PBS member station in Los Angeles.
His work has encompassed theatre, television, cinema, commercials, and broadcasting, as well as extensive voice-over work in television and feature films. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and an Emmy nominee for his voice-over work. Coopwood is one of the rare actors who has worked on both the Star Wars and Star Trek series. His most well-known voiceover job was as the Borg in the film Star Trek: First Contact. His voice was used for the Borg speech in the film, which ended with the now-iconic sentence, “Resistance is futile.” To get the distinct “Borg” appearance, his performance was digitally blended from numerous original takes. He was also the voice of Captain Panaka in four Star Wars videogames: Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace; Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, Star Wars: Obi-Wan and in addition to playing the role in Star Wars: Episode I: Battle for Naboo, he also voiced the game’s narrator. In 2020, Coopwood released a solo vocal recording called “Jeff Coopwood on Broadway.”
Jeff Coopwood Net Worth
Jeff has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.