Brian Cox
Biography
Brian Denis Cox (born June 1, 1946) is a Scottish actor. A classically trained Shakespearean actor, he is known for his work on stage and screen. His numerous accolades include two Laurence Olivier Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a British Academy Television Award. In 2003, he was appointed to the Order of the British Empire at the rank of Commander.
Cox trained at the Dundee Repertory Theatre before becoming a founding member of the Royal Lyceum Theatre. He went on to train as a Shakespearean actor, starring in numerous productions with the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. Cox received two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Actor for his roles in Rat in the Skull (1984), for Royal Court, and Titus Andronicus (1988). He received two more Olivier Award nominations for Misalliance (1986) and Fashion (1988).
Known as a character actor in film, he played Robert McKee in Spike Jonze's Adaptation (2002) and William Stryker in X2 (2003). For his starring role in L.I.E. (2001), he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. His other notable films include Manhunter (1986), Iron Will (1994), Braveheart (1995), The Boxer (1997), The Rookie (2002), Troy (2004), Match Point (2005), The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007), Coriolanus (2011), Pixels (2015), and Churchill (2017).
Cox won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his portrayal of Hermann Göring in the television film Nuremberg (2001). The following year, he guest starred on the NBC sitcom Frasier, earning his second Emmy nomination in 2002. He portrayed Jack Langrishe in the HBO series Deadwood. He starred as Logan Roy on the HBO series Succession (2018-2023), for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series and was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Actor in a Drama Series.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1946-06-01
Place of birth
Dundee, Scotland, UK
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Cast
Braveheart
1995
7.90
The Ring
2002
6.69
25th Hour
2002
7.32
Troy
2004
7.17
Poodle Springs
1998
5.38
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
7.80
Zodiac
2007
7.53
The Bourne Identity
2002
7.47
The Bourne Supremacy
2004
7.33
The Independent
2022
6.65
Adaptation.
2002
7.34
The Good Heart
2009
6.37
Rushmore
1998
7.39
The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996
6.58
The Minus Man
1999
5.40
Trick 'r Treat
2007
7.00
Running with Scissors
2006
5.75
Manhunter
1986
7.02
Red Eye
2005
6.39
Rob Roy
1995
6.70
Iron Will
1994
6.71
Complicity
2000
5.60
Chain Reaction
1996
5.79
Bug
2002
7.20
Kiss the Girls
1997
6.53
The Corruptor
1999
6.10
Desperate Measures
1998
6.03
The Reckoning
2004
6.36
The Ringer
2005
5.70
Red
2008
6.25
Tell-Tale
2009
5.35
The Glimmer Man
1996
5.41
As Good As Dead
2010
5.00
X2
2003
7.03
The Rookie
2002
6.81
The Escapist
2008
6.20
Mad About Mambo
2000
5.00
The Flying Scotsman
2006
6.59
An Interview with Brian Cox
2023
0.00
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
1989
0.00
Ironclad
2011
6.14
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
6.94
Battle for Terra
2007
6.20
RED
2010
6.70
The Boxer
1997
6.70
Quasi
2023
5.17
Hidden Agenda
1990
6.96
King Lear
1983
6.50
Super Troopers
2001
6.56
Japan's War in Colour
2005
8.00
The Maltese Double Cross
1994
7.00
L.I.E.
2001
6.76
Prince of Jutland
1994
5.40
Longitude
2000
7.43
The Affair of the Necklace
2001
5.54
Sharpe's Eagle
1993
7.10
Sharpe's Rifles
1993
6.70
The Veteran
2011
5.80
The Secret of the Nutcracker
2007
5.30
The Water Horse
2007
6.50
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
1988
7.60
The Lost Language of Cranes
1992
5.86
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
2009
0.00
The Blasphemers' Banquet
1989
0.00
The Campaign
2012
5.84
Coriolanus
2011
5.90
The Key Man
2011
3.72
The Parenting
2025
6.04
A Woman in Winter
2007
7.70
Her
2013
7.84
The Privilege
1982
0.00
Strictly Sinatra
2001
4.80
The Year of the Sex Olympics
1968
4.25
Blood
2012
5.86
In Celebration
1975
4.80
Witness Against Hitler
1996
6.00
The Cloning of Joanna May
1992
7.00
Little Wing
2024
6.63
An Adventure in Space and Time
2013
7.68
On Expenses
2010
0.00
The Cutter
1992
0.00
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
2012
0.00
The Curse of Edgar
2013
7.20
Hitler in Colour
2005
7.90
Anna
2013
6.50
Inside 'Manhunter'
2001
7.00
Believe
2013
6.00
Blumenthal
2013
4.00
RED 2
2013
6.53
Match Point
2005
7.36
The Changeling
1974
7.00
Ukraine: Answering the Call
2022
0.00
Deceptions
1992
0.00
Pope John Paul II
1984
6.90
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
7.34
The Electric State
2025
6.49
The Anomaly
2014
5.00
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2002
6.90
The Gospel of John
2014
7.00
Murder by Numbers
2004
0.00
Shoot for the Sun
1987
0.00
The Glove
0.00
Bonnie
2022
5.33
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
1990
0.00
Pixels
2015
5.77
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
2023
0.00
Forsaken
2015
6.20
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
2011
5.60
Exit Humanity
2011
5.17
That Christmas
2024
7.19
The Planets
0.00
Ooh the Banter!
2022
0.00
Agent Crush
2008
4.30
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
2002
6.80
Shoot on Sight
2007
6.10
Skelly
2024
6.20
Saltwater
2000
6.90
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
5.00
Churchill
2017
6.18
The Carer
2016
6.63
Morgan
2016
5.81
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016
6.83
For Love of the Game
1999
6.45
Murder on the Moon
1989
2.80
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
2002
0.00
Scotland In A Day
2014
0.00
Glenrothan
2025
4.00
Pretenders
2019
5.20
Red Fox
1991
5.00
A Shot at Glory
2000
5.60
Food for Ravens
1997
6.00
Blue/Orange
2005
5.50
Rat in the Skull
1987
0.00
Pacific Warriors
2015
6.80
Merchants of Venus
1998
5.83
Super Troopers 2
2018
5.87
Sin
2003
4.82
Strange But True
2019
6.01
Florence Nightingale
1985
5.70
The Etruscan Smile
2018
6.30
Kubrick by Candlelight
2018
7.00
The Invention of Dr. Morel
2000
0.00
Remember Me
2019
6.30
Last Moment of Clarity
2020
5.18
The Cantor of St Thomas's
1985
0.00
The Bay of Silence
2020
4.40
All at Sea
2012
4.50
Secret Weapon
1990
6.00
The Last Right
2019
6.10
Lawrence After Arabia
2020
4.20
Grushko
1994
6.00
The Negotiator
1994
0.00
Widdershins
2018
7.33
The Outsiders
2006
4.00
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
2020
0.00
An Evening with Brian Cox
2017
0.00
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
1965
0.00
A Cotswold Death
1982
7.00
The Biographer
2002
0.00
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
1976
7.00
Separation
2021
5.69
Home Cooking
1986
0.00
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
2021
5.00
Carry On Ken
2006
0.00
Mending the Line
2023
6.56
Prisoner's Daughter
2023
6.10
Dalhousie's Luck
1980
0.00
The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000
6.00
Killing Thyme
2015
0.00
Old Pals
0.00
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007
7.43
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
2002
0.00
Macbeth
1992
0.00
The Marbles
2025
0.00
AMR: Dying to Change the World
2025
0.00
Danny Phantom: Reign Storm
2005
0.00