Cooper Tomlinson

Cooper Tomlinson is an American actor, writer, producer, and online comedy creator whose screen work has developed alongside the social-media sketch channel That's a Bad Idea. Public biographical information about him is limited compared with long-established film and television performers, so the most reliable account of his career comes from credited film listings and public profiles connected to his independent projects.

Tomlinson is associated with a generation of performers who built an audience outside traditional studio routes before moving into larger independent-film visibility. According to his public profile on The Movie Database, he began making short films while still in high school and later moved to Los Angeles. He briefly attended the New York Film Academy, where he met Curry Barker. Tomlinson and Barker then left school and developed Roommates and the sketch-comedy channel That's a Bad Idea, a brand that became known for short horror-comedy and genre-sketch videos distributed through TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram.

His early credited work includes the independent film Aberdeen, in which he appeared as Connor and also held a production credit. He later appeared in MyCorona, a pandemic-era romantic comedy, and was credited in projects such as Treasure Trackers, Haley's Brain, My Dead Dad's Funeral, Anything but Ghosts, Obsession, and Fly Me To The Earth. Because many of these productions are small independent or recent titles, publicly available information about their releases and reception is uneven. The safest way to describe Tomlinson's filmography is as a mixture of acting, writing, and producing credits concentrated in low-budget and independent genre or comedy work.