Veteran character actor Tim Hopper plays Office of Fire Investigation Captain Tom Van Meter on Chicago Fire and in the One Chicago universe.
Hopper, who has been a member of Chicago's famed Steppenwolf Theater Company since 1988, got his first on-screen acting role in a made-for-television movie in 1988. He's a regular on many of producer Dick Wolf's series, having made appearances: on Law & Order (Season 5, Episode 23, "Pride"); in two episodes of Law & Order Special Victims Unit (Season 2, Episode 8, "Taken" and Season 7, Episode 21, "Web") as different characters; in two episodes of Law & Order: Trial By Jury (Season 1, Episode 8, "Skeleton" and Season 1, Episode 12, "Boys Will Be Boys") as Medical Examiner George Gibson; and on New York Undercover (Season 2, Episode 5, "Digital Underground.")
Before being cast as Van Meter, Hopper had a guest role as another character on Chicago Fire in Season 2, Episode 2 ("Prove It") and a different character on Chicago Med in Season 1, Episode 11 ("Intervention").
Van Hopper's other on-screen credits include roles in the movies Frankie & Johnny, Last of the Mohicans, To Die For, and School of Rock and the roles of journalist Rick Donn in 10 episodes of Oz, KGB informant Sanford Prince in four episodes of The Americans, and Dale Warwick in Utopia.