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Robert C. Cooper

Canadian writer and producer

Field	Value
name	Robert C. Cooper
image	Robert C. Cooper by Gage Skidmore.jpg
caption	Cooper at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con
birth_date
birth_place	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
occupation	Executive producer
screenwriter
spouse	Hillary Cooper
children	Emma Cooper
Megan Elizabeth Cooper

screenwriter Megan Elizabeth Cooper

Robert C. Cooper is a Canadian writer and producer best known for his work in the Stargate franchise. He was formerly an executive producer of Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe. He also co-created both Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe with Brad Wright. Cooper has written and produced many episodes of Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe as well as directed a number of episodes.

Career

Cooper started his writing career with a series of films, the first of which was Blown Away. He joined the crew of Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal as a story editor until he was promoted to a writer in 1996 where he worked until moving to Stargate SG-1 in 1997 as an executive story editor.

Whilst working on Stargate SG-1, Cooper is credited with writing 52 episodes. Cooper became a co-executive producer of Stargate SG-1 in season 4, and a full executive producer in season 5. He made a cameo appearance in the Stargate SG-1 fifth season episode "Wormhole X-Treme!", in which he was a staff writer who was told to get back to work.

Cooper was responsible for creating much of the backstory of the Stargate universe. According to Stargate SG-1: The Essential Scripts, Cooper's ideas about the history of the Stargate universe were his own; he wasn't working from ideas in a series bible. Cooper created the Ancients, the race that built the stargates. He also developed the idea of the Alliance of Four Races, even though two of the races had been invented by other writers (the Nox and the Asgard created by Hart Hanson and Katharyn Powers respectively).

In December 2003, it was announced that Cooper and Brad Wright had been working on a Stargate SG-1 spin-off series titled Stargate Atlantis.

Cooper made his directorial debut with "Crusade" a ninth season episode of Stargate SG-1. In the 10th season premiere episode "Flesh and Blood", Cooper's daughter Emma played the 4 year old Adria. Later in the tenth season of Stargate SG-1, in early scenes of the episode "Talion", his older daughter Megan Elizabeth Cooper played a jaffa girl. Cooper also directed "Unending" the final episode of Stargate SG-1. Following the conclusion of SG-1, Cooper wrote and directed the direct-to-DVD movie Stargate: The Ark of Truth.

After Stargate Atlantis was cancelled, Cooper and Brad Wright went on to create another spin-off, Stargate Universe which premiered on October 2, 2009. In June 2010, it was revealed that Cooper was "stepping back to ... a consulting role" for the end of Stargate Universe season 2, before leaving entirely.

Filmography

Film

Title	Year	Credited as	Notes	Director	Producer	Writer	Blown Away	The Dark	No Contest	The Club	The Impossible Elephant	Stargate: The Ark of Truth	Stargate: Continuum
1992
1993
1994
1994
2001
2008
2008

Television

The numbers in directing and writing credits refer to the number of episodes.

Title	Year	Credited as	Network	Notes	Creator	Director	Writer	Executive
producer	Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal	Flash Forward	Stargate SG-1	Best Actress	Stargate Atlantis	Stargate Universe	Dark Matter	Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency	Unspeakable
1996–97			(3)
1997			(1)
1997–2007		(2)	(58)		Showtime
Syfy	co-producer (1998–99: 12 episodes), supervising producer (1999–2000: 11 episodes), producer (1999: 11 episodes), co-executive producer (2000–01: 22 episodes), executive producer (2001–07: 126 episodes)
2000					E!	Television film
2004–09		(3)	(10)		Syfy
2009–11		(2)	(9)		Syfy
2015–16			(2)		CTV Sci-Fi Channel	consulting producer (12 episodes)
2016–17			(2)		BBC America
2019		(2)	(4)		CBC Television

Awards

Out of fifteen nominations, Cooper has received four awards.

2009 – Leo Awards, Best Direction in a Dramatic Series: Stargate Atlantis: "Vegas"
2009 – Leo Awards, Best Dramatic Series: Stargate Atlantis (Shared)
2009 – Leo Awards, Outstanding Achievement Award – Individual (Shared with Brad Wright)
2006 – The Constellation Awards, Best Overall 2006 Science Fiction Film or Television Script: Stargate SG-1: "200" (Shared with Brad Wright)

References

"Official Stargate Website: Crew Member.". MGM.
"Robert C. Cooper". IMDB.
"GateWorld – Stargate News: December 2003(Spin-Off News)". Gateworld.
"GateWorld – Stargate SG-1 Season Ten: "Flesh and Blood"". Gateworld.
"GateWorld – Stargate SG-1 Season Ten: "Talion"". Gateworld.
(July 20, 2009). "Syfy sets fall premiere dates, schedule". Sci Fi Wire.
Mallozzi, Joseph. (June 19, 2010). "June 19, 2010: The Farewell Tour! Back On Top! Janina's New Music Vid!".
Sumner, Darren. (June 20, 2010). "Robert C. Cooper departing Stargate". Gateworld.
"Robert C. Cooper – Awards". IMDB.

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