Bradley Cooper
Bradley Cooper (born January 5, 1975, Philadelphia, United States), aged 51, is an American actor. Notable films include Guardians of the Galaxy, Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle. Cooper's honours include Grammy Awards, British Academy of Film and Television Arts and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple/Ensemble.
Bradley Cooper’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Wood Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Bradley
Bradley Cooper’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Bradley in the U.S.?
#403
US rank in 2025
~314,957
Americans share it since 1880
1980
its peak year
Bradley ranked 52nd among boys and 2,459th among girls in 1975, the year of this birth, with 5,894 American boys and 32 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Bradley’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
5
Soul Urge · freedom
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on B (2) and closes on Y (7).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Bradley’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1974, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Bradley apart
Umberto Eco (1932) and Hayao Miyazaki (1941) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Bradley, according to the stars
Core essence
Bradley is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Bradley is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Bradley wants to be loved
Bradley wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Bradley you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Bradley creates
How Bradley makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Bradley creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Bradley is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Bradley is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Bradley leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Bradley has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Bradley's birth date. Working below.
Where Bradley sits
Six lines
Bradley’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Bradley Cooper
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Philadelphia on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Philadelphia that night
Computed for 39.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Philadelphia was Menkib, in Perseus, 85.7° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 108 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Philadelphia at all: they sit past the −50.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 36% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 47° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Philadelphia, United States
- Lives in
- Washington, D.C.
Wikidata records Washington, D.C. as Bradley Cooper's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Bradley Cooper: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Bradley's chart is
Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · T-square onto Pluto · 1 planet at a critical degree
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Bradley Cooper's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 5, 1975, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerLeads by moving.
Bradley Cooper was born on January 5, 1975, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Bradley Cooper's birth date, January 5, 1975, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Bradley’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bradley Cooper's date-only chart is Sun sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Bradley Cooper combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Bradley’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsextileJupiter0.2° to 1.0° orb
Bradley’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableSunoppositionSaturn0.2° to 1.3° orb
Bradley’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitertrineSaturn1.2° to 1.5° orb
Bradley’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb
stableVenussquareUranus2.1° to 3.3° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter3.9° to 4.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.4° to 4.7° orb
stableSunsquarePluto5.0° to 6.0° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto6.2° to 6.3° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Bradley’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 19°58′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 14°60′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 22°57′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 26°21′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 26°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.3°
- Ceres trine Saturn 0.5°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 0.9°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.6°
- Hygiea square Mercury 1.6°
- Eros opposition Mercury 1.8°
- Hygiea square Venus 2.9°
Bradley’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Bradley’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Pluto · Sun, Saturn, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.2°
- Sun quintile Uranus 0.7°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.8°
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 1.1°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.3°
More people like Bradley
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Born in United States
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More charts like Bradley’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Cynthia ErivoBritish actress and singer-songwriter
- Jake PaulAmerican YouTuber and boxer
- Madam C. J. WalkerAmerican entrepreneur
Born in Tiger years
- Davis MillsAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Boye MafeAmerican football defensive end
- Dominique RobinsonAmerican football player (born 1998)
Also born on January 5
- Umberto Eco1932
- Hayao Miyazaki1941
- Marilyn Manson1969
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o1938
- Suki Waterhouse1992
- Bianca Censori1995
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Stephen GrahamEnglish actor (born 1973)
- Richard DreyfussAmerican actor (born 1947)
- Janet LeighAmerican actress
Other Capricorn Tiger charts
- Mason MountEnglish association football player
- LattoAmerican rapper (born 1998)
- Briar NoletCanadian actress and dancer (born 1998)
- Richard WidmarkAmerican actor and producer
Other Gilded Strategists
- Leslie HowardBritish actor
- Fredric MarchAmerican actor
- Antonin ArtaudFrench-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director
- Sergi LópezSpanish actor
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Marin PongračićCroatian association football player
- Theo BongondaDR Congolese footballer
- Jesús GallardoMexican association football player
From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Bradley’s cards
Computed from January 5, 1975. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Bradley’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q205707 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bradley Cooper at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bradley Cooper.
Quick answers about Bradley Cooper’s chart
- How old is Bradley Cooper?
- Bradley Cooper is 51 years old, born January 5, 1975 in Philadelphia, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Bradley Cooper?
- Bradley Cooper is a Capricorn: born January 5, 1975, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Bradley Cooper's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 5, 1975 birth.
- What is Bradley Cooper's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Bradley Cooper's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Bradley Cooper's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Bradley Cooper's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
