
Bryan Cranston
Born: 1956-03-07
Place of Birth: Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
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).
Known For

Kung Fu Panda 4

Saving Private Ryan

The Power of the Present

The Phoenician Scheme

Drive

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

Kung Fu Panda 3

Godzilla

Why Him?

Argylle

Total Recall

Isle of Dogs

John Carter

Little Miss Sunshine

Argo

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

Power Rangers

Asteroid City

Larry Crowne

Contagion

The Lincoln Lawyer

Love Ranch

The Sheep Detectives

Detachment

Armitage III: Poly Matrix

The Upside

Jerry & Marge Go Large

Everything's Going to Be Great

Rock of Ages

Erotique

Wakefield

The Companion

The Disaster Artist

That Thing You Do!

Grendel

Holiday Reunion

Terror Tract

Corporate Affairs

David Blaine: Real or Magic

The Infiltrator

The One and Only Ivan

Red Tails

Leave

Illusion

Batman: Year One

Trumbo

Get a Job

Seeing Other People

Ancient Caves

No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad

Übermansion

Show of Titles

Making of Better Call Saul: Finale

Amazon Women on the Moon

Pink Elephants

Last Flag Flying

'Twas the Night

All the Way

Experience Yosemite

In Dubious Battle

Network

Dead Space

Cold Comes the Night

Strategic Command

An Audience with Adele

The Santa Claus Brothers

David Blaine: The Magic Way

The Studio: How to Shoot a Oner

The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman

The Words That Built America

Sense of Smell

Barely Legal Pawn

Time Under Fire

Clean Slate

Love Letters

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon

Hard Four

The Concert for Valor

Last Chance

CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion

Every Act of Life

Dead Silence

The Story of Soaps

The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime

Street Corner Justice

Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl

When We Went MAD!

Seth Rogen Is the Worst Person in the World

Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés

The Big Turnaround

Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story

To Race the Wind

Sell/Buy/Date
