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Michael Cooper Jr. Age, Family, and More: All You Need to Know About the ‘Forever’ Standout Star

  • May 25, 2025
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Netflix has proven to be a big game changer for many names in the industry that received international fame and major breakthroughs after appearing on the platform, like Jenna Ortega and Sofia Carson, and others. And for 2025, so far this honor has been claimed by Forever

 star Michael Cooper Jr. This Judy Blume novel adaptation gave the audience modern-day and innocent first love that bloomed under the golden California sun. This binge-worthy series, in which Cooper stars with Lovie Simone, has become a big hit, raising people’s curiosity about the male lead.

But worry not, your queries about Michael Cooper Jr. end here. From personal to professional details, learn all the information about the young actor here.

Michael Cooper Jr’s age and other details

Born on March 5, 2002, to Michael Cooper, Sr, and Kemba Cooper,

Michael Cooper Jr. was raised in Dallas, Texas, where he started acting in church plays before getting a part in his school musical, a production of High School Musical, as a sophomore. Now at 23 years old, she stands tall at 6 feet and weighs 167 lbs.

Though acting was not always his hobby, speaking to Huff Post recently, the actor revealed how he was a very academic student, adding, “I always tell people that I was meant to be a lawyer or something else.”

But performing in his school musical gave him a taste of the acting world, and he started pursuing it relentlessly.

Read More: Michael Cooper Jr. and Lovie Simone Get Real About Filming ‘Nervous Vulnerable’ Scenes on Netflix’s Forever

Moreover, playing Justin on screen helped the actor in his personal relationship as well.

Is Michael Cooper Jr seeing someone?

As per his confession to The Huffington Post, it looks like Michael Cooper Jr. was in a relationship, but it failed to work out. The actor told the publication that during the filming for Forever

, he was also handling the end of a relationship, and he was able to channel what Justin was going through into real life as well.

Cooper said to the outlet, “My ex-girlfriend, we split around that time of filming, and I was able to use some of the life lessons and the pain.”

He also added, “A lot of things that I was able to use while playing him and exploit in this beautiful way

.” There are no recent reports of him dating anyone else at the moment.

Acting credits before Forever

Michael Cooper Jr. became a breakout hit with Forever,

but he proudly boasts some other credits before this show. After graduating high school a semester early at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, he gave auditions for short films and commercials while also studying political science at the University of Texas at Austin and Texas Tech.

His hard work paid off as he got the roles in the 2022 horror movie The Inhabitant

, followed by the Paramount+ film adaptation of On the Come Up

. He was also the lead in the 2020 short film Ashes

and had small roles prior to that in The Pros of Cons

and Vindication

. With these credits under his belt, his work in Forever

seems even more seasoned, making him a well-deserved breakout star of Netflix.

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