Cooper Freedman

Cooper Freedman

Played by Paul Adelstein

Specialty:
Pediatrics

Relationship Status:
Married to Dr. Charlotte King

Previous Quote

"Guys don't keep messages from an ex. That's a woman thing." - Cooper Freedman

Next Quote
  • Violet Turner to Cooper

    "The thing is Cooper... Okay, the thing is that... I am kind of a stalker."

  • Charlotte King to Cooper:

    "Well, I'm glad to hear you and Violet have this thing together that makes you so damn happy."

  • Charlotte King to Cooper:

    "Right now you're nothing but a guy who moved in with another woman."

  • Violet Turner to Cooper

    "Well, what do you know about women that you didn't get off the Internet?"

  • Sam Bennett about Cooper:

    "How is that guy and the guy who hired me a stripper the same person?"

  • Charlotte King to Cooper:

    "You look like day-old dishwater, Coop."

  • Charlotte King to Cooper:

    "You're marrying a sex therapist, Cooper. We never run out of tricks."

  • Charlotte King to Cooper:

    "You ever call me the victim again this marriage is off."

  • Sam Bennett about Cooper:

    "I think he's smarter than us!"

  • Sam Bennett about Cooper:

    "Please tell me he's crying about the car, and not about SexyBoobs315."

  • Violet Turner to Cooper:

    "You can't reject me, you have low standards... you have no standards!"

Character Bio

Dr. Cooper Freedman is a board-certified pediatrician and a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics. A dedicated, effective physician, Dr. Freedman is a whiz with all things adolescent. He prides himself on making his patients laugh. Married to Dr. Charlotte King, he also has a nine-year-old son, Mason. The happy family currently resides in Hollywood, CA.

Actor Bio

Following appearances in several major films and guest stints on various TV series, this sharp actor now bowls us over each week as the comical Dr. Cooper Freedman on ABC’s Private Practice.
 
Paul Adelstein's films include Memoirs of a Geisha, Be Cool, opposite John Travolta and Uma Thurman, Collateral, opposite Tom Cruise and Jamie Fox, and Intolerable Cruelty, opposite George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones.

Adelstein has also appeared in several television series, including his role as Agent Paul Kellerman in Prison Break, and had guest roles on ER, Without a Trace, Medium, Scrubs, Nobody's Watching, Las Vegas and Law & Order.

A Chicago native, Adelstein started his career on stage with John Cusack's New Crime Productions and the renowned Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

Also a songwriter, singer and composer, one of Adelstein's songs can be heard in the Coen Brothers' movie, Burn After Reading.