Bryan Cranston

Bryan Cranston

Biography

Bryan Lee Cranston (born March 7, 1956) is an American actor. After taking minor roles in television, he established himself as a leading actor in both comedic and dramatic works on stage and screen. He has received several accolades, including six Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Tony Awards, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award.

Cranston first gained prominence playing Hal in the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (2000–2006), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He gained stardom for his dramatic leading role playing Walter White in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013), for which he won the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times (2008, 2009, 2010, and 2014). He was Emmy-nominated for All the Way (2016) and Curb Your Enthusiasm (2018). Cranston co-developed and appeared in the crime drama series Sneaky Pete (2015–2019) and starred in the drama series Your Honor (2020–2023).

On stage, he earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for portraying President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Broadway play All the Way (2014), a role he reprised in the 2016 HBO film. He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and his second Tony Award for portraying Howard Beale in the play Network on the West End and Broadway, respectively.

Cranston earned nominations for the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor for portraying Dalton Trumbo in the Hollywood blacklist drama Trumbo (2015). Other notable films include Saving Private Ryan (1998), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Drive (2011), Contagion (2011), Argo (2012), Godzilla (2014), The Infiltrator (2016), The Upside (2017), Last Flag Flying (2017), and Asteroid City (2023). He has also voiced roles in Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012), Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016), Isle of Dogs (2018), and Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024).

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Personal info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1956-03-07

Place of birth

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Images

Cast

Clean Slate

Clean Slate

1994

5.76

Total Recall

Total Recall

2012

6.03

Drive

Drive

2011

7.58

Hard Four

Hard Four

2007

4.38

Contagion

Contagion

2011

6.64

John Carter

John Carter

2012

6.34

Argo

Argo

2012

7.28

Rock of Ages

Rock of Ages

2012

6.20

Red Tails

Red Tails

2012

6.58

Detachment

Detachment

2011

7.63

Larry Crowne

Larry Crowne

2011

5.99

Godzilla

Godzilla

2014

6.35

Get a Job

Get a Job

2016

5.30

Trumbo

Trumbo

2015

7.16

All the Way

All the Way

2016

6.70

Why Him?

Why Him?

2016

6.39

Wakefield

Wakefield

2017

6.20

Dead Silence

Dead Silence

1991

6.21

Isle of Dogs

Isle of Dogs

2018

7.85

The Upside

The Upside

2019

7.14

Dead Space

Dead Space

1991

3.60

Love Ranch

Love Ranch

2010

5.40

Illusion

Illusion

2004

7.60

Leave

Leave

2011

6.10

Terror Tract

Terror Tract

2000

6.14

Erotique

Erotique

1994

3.88

Last Chance

Last Chance

1999

6.00

Übermansion

Übermansion

2013

10.00

Love Letters

Love Letters

2020

0.00

Loving

Loving

1983

0.00

Ancient Caves

Ancient Caves

2020

10.00

Argylle

Argylle

2024

6.03

Network

Network

2018

0.00