
Brian Cox
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

Adaptation.

Troy

Her

Braveheart

The Bourne Identity

Pixels

Zodiac

The Electric State

The Bourne Supremacy

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

RED

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

The Veteran

The Bourne Ultimatum

Fantastic Mr. Fox

The Ring

Forsaken

Ironclad

The Corruptor

RED 2

Super Troopers

Kiss the Girls

The Ringer

Rushmore

That Christmas

Agent Crush

Desperate Measures

Red Eye

The Campaign

The Escapist

Red

The Anomaly

Little Wing

In Celebration

Tell-Tale

Anna

The Carer

Quasi

Match Point

Exit Humanity

Florence Nightingale

Bug

The Long Kiss Goodnight

Poodle Springs

25th Hour

Red Fox

Hidden Agenda

Trick 'r Treat

Remember Me

Pretenders

Sin

Longitude

Saltwater

The Rookie

Bonnie

Grushko

Blue/Orange

Believe

The Parenting

Home Cooking

King Lear

Complicity

The Biographer

Blood

Chain Reaction

The Water Horse

Secret Weapon

The Independent

Morgan

Strictly Sinatra

Skelly

Rob Roy

Coriolanus

The Negotiator

Super Troopers 2

Last Moment of Clarity

Battle for Terra

Shoot for the Sun

The Glimmer Man

The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'

For Love of the Game

Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster

The Lost Language of Cranes

Macbeth

Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword

Iron Will

The Minus Man

L.I.E.

Churchill

Strange But True

The Bay of Silence

Deceptions

Glenrothan

Separation

The Boxer

Mending the Line

The Secret of the Nutcracker

Inside 'Manhunter'

The Privilege

Prisoner's Daughter

Carry On Ken

The Flying Scotsman

A Cotswold Death

Running with Scissors

Prince of Jutland

Nicholas and Alexandra

Mad About Mambo

As Good As Dead

The Affair of the Necklace

Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace

Merchants of Venus

Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie

The Good Heart

Killing Thyme

The Reckoning

Sharpe's Rifles

An Adventure in Space and Time

The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2

Sharpe's Eagle

Sharpe: The Legend

Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh

Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy

Shoot on Sight

The Etruscan Smile

The Key Man

Widdershins

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation

X2

A Shot at Glory

The Gospel of John

All at Sea

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

Dalhousie's Luck

Hitler in Colour

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Ooh the Banter!

Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun

An Interview with Brian Cox

Murder on the Moon

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

Pacific Warriors

Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

The Last Right

Ukraine: Answering the Call

Witness Against Hitler

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

Pope John Paul II

Kubrick by Candlelight

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story

Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon

The Year of the Sex Olympics

The Changeling

On Expenses

The Invention of Dr. Morel

A Woman in Winter

The Cutter

Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch

The Planets

Food for Ravens

Murder by Numbers

Bill Douglas: My Best Friend

The Curse of Edgar

Lawrence After Arabia

Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction

The Making of 'Rushmore'

Six Characters in Search of An Author

The Marbles

Japan's War in Colour

A Modern Magician

The Trials of Henry Kissinger

Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC

Manhunter

The Cloning of Joanna May

John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues

Danny Phantom: Reign Storm

The Maltese Double Cross

The Blasphemers' Banquet

The Glove

Brian Cox's Jute Journey
