Brian Cox
Acting
- Born:
- 1946-06-01
- Place of birth:
- Dundee, Scotland, UK
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.
Known For
Filmography
Super Troopers 3
The Sunrise File
Glenrothan
The Marbles
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
Dexter: Resurrection
VE Day 80
The Parenting
AMR: Dying to Change the World
The Electric State
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
That Christmas
Unsinkable
Skelly
Little Wing
007: Road to a Million
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
Made of Money with Brian Cox
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
Prisoner's Daughter
Mending the Line
Quasi
An Interview with Brian Cox
Ooh the Banter!
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live
Bonnie
The Independent
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Ukraine: Answering the Call
Remembers…
Piers Morgan Uncensored
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
Amol Rajan Interviews
Separation
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
The Bay of Silence
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
Last Moment of Clarity
Lawrence After Arabia
The Last Right
Strange but True
Pretenders
Remember Me
Good Omens
Kubrick by Candlelight
Widdershins
Succession
Super Troopers 2
The Etruscan Smile
The Russell Howard Hour
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
An Evening with Brian Cox
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines
Churchill
Brian Cox's Russia
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Medici: Masters of Florence
Morgan
The Carer
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
War and Peace
Killing Thyme
Forsaken
Pacific Warriors
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Pixels
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
The Slap
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Gospel of John
The Game
Scotland In A Day
The Great War: The People's Story
The Anomaly
Penny Dreadful
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Her
An Adventure in Space and Time
The Curse of Edgar
Anna
Believe
Blumenthal
RED 2
Shetland
The Last Leg
Bob Servant
Addicted to Pleasure
Blood
A Touch of Cloth
The Campaign
Tooned
All at Sea
The Straits
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Exit Humanity
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
The Jonathan Ross Show
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
The Veteran
Ironclad
The Key Man
Coriolanus
The Sinking of the Laconia
RED
On Expenses
As Good As Dead
The Day of the Triffids
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
The Good Heart
The Take
Tell-Tale
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
Kings
Red
The Escapist
The Colour of Magic
Agent Crush
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
The Water Horse
The Secret of the Nutcracker
Shoot on Sight
Trick 'r Treat
Battle for Terra
The Bourne Ultimatum
A Woman in Winter
Zodiac
The Graham Norton Show
M.I. High
Running with Scissors
The Outsiders
The Flying Scotsman
The One Show
Carry On Ken
The Ringer
Match Point
The Colbert Report
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Red Eye
Hitler in Colour
Blue/Orange
Japan's War in Colour
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
Agatha Christie's Marple
The Tony Danza Show
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
The Bourne Supremacy
Troy
Deadwood
Murder by Numbers
The Reckoning
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
One Life
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
X2
Real Time with Bill Maher
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Sin
25th Hour
Adaptation.
Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World
Top Gear
The Ring
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
The Biographer
The Bourne Identity
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
The Rookie
Bug
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
Masters of Darkness
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
The Affair of the Necklace
Richard & Judy
L.I.E.
I Love 1990s
Strictly Sinatra
Super Troopers
Inside 'Manhunter'
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Saltwater
Nuremberg
Complicity
A Shot at Glory
Mad About Mambo
The Invention of Dr. Morel
The Making of 'Rushmore'
Longitude
Longitude
The History of the British Police Force
The Minus Man
For Love of the Game
The Corruptor
Rushmore
Poodle Springs
Battle of the Clans
Merchants of Venus
Desperate Measures
The Boxer
Food for Ravens
Sharpe: The Legend
Kiss the Girls
I, Caesar – The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Glimmer Man
Superman: The Animated Series
Chain Reaction
The Daily Show
Witness Against Hitler
Braveheart
Rob Roy
The Maltese Double Cross
The Negotiator
Grushko
Prince of Jutland
Iron Will
Frasier
Sharpe's Eagle
Sharpe's Rifles
Sharpe
Six Characters in Search of An Author
The Big Battalions
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
The Cutter
The Lost Language of Cranes
The Cloning of Joanna May
Deceptions
Red Fox
Performance
Hidden Agenda
Have I Got News for You
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
Perfect Scoundrels
Secret Weapon
The Simpsons
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
The Blasphemers' Banquet
Murder on the Moon
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Red Dwarf
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Acting
Shoot for the Sun
French & Saunders
Inspector Morse
Rat in the Skull
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
Home Cooking
Unnatural Causes
Manhunter
Florence Nightingale
The Cantor of St Thomas's
Pope John Paul II
King Lear
A Cotswold Death
The Privilege
House on the Hill
Hammer House of Horror
Dalhousie's Luck
Therese Raquin
Minder
Question Time
Out
The Devil's Crown
Target
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
Shades of Greene
In Celebration
The Master of Ballantrae
Churchill's People
Playhouse
The Changeling
Van der Valk
Nicholas and Alexandra
Stage 2
Great Performances
Play for Today
Manhunt
The Year of the Sex Olympics
The Gamblers
ITV Playhouse
BBC Play of the Month
Thirty-Minute Theatre
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
The Wednesday Play
Theatre 625
A Modern Magician
The Glove
The Planets
Wittgenstein's Poker
Old Pals
Super Troopers 4
Just Dandy
Have I Got a Bit More News for You