Brian Cox
Actor

Brian Cox

20 Movies
1 TV Shows
21 Credits
Personal Info
Known For Acting
Known Credits 21
Birthday June 1, 1946 (80 years old)
Place of Birth Dundee, Scotland, UK
Also Known As Brian Denis Cox, Brian Cox CBE, Ψ¨Ψ±Ψ§ΫŒΨ§Ω† Ϊ©Ψ§Ϊ©Ψ³
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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 RoyalΒ 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 GΓΆring 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.

Filmography (292)

Glenrothan 2026
Super Troopers 3 2026
The Sunrise File 2026
The Parenting 2025
The Electric State 2025
The Marbles 2025
AMR: Dying to Change the World 2025
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction 2025
VE Day 80 2025
Dexter: Resurrection 2025
Little Wing 2024
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim 2024
That Christmas 2024
Skelly 2024
Unsinkable 2024
An Interview with Brian Cox 2023
Quasi 2023
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend 2023
Mending the Line 2023
Prisoner's Daughter 2023
007: Road to a Million 2023
Made of Money with Brian Cox 2023
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius 2023
The Independent 2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba 2022
Ukraine: Answering the Call 2022
Bonnie 2022
Ooh the Banter! 2022
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live 2022
Piers Morgan Uncensored 2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg 2022
Remembers… 2022
Separation 2021
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story 2021
Blade Runner: Black Lotus 2021
Amol Rajan Interviews 2021
Last Moment of Clarity 2020
The Bay of Silence 2020
Lawrence After Arabia 2020
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues 2020
Pretenders 2019
Strange but True 2019
Remember Me 2019
The Last Right 2019
Good Omens 2019
Super Troopers 2 2018
The Etruscan Smile 2018
Kubrick by Candlelight 2018
Widdershins 2018
Succession 2018
Churchill 2017
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation 2017
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie 2017
An Evening with Brian Cox 2017
Carpool Karaoke: The Series 2017
Brian Cox's Russia 2017
The Russell Howard Hour 2017
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC 2016
The Carer 2016
Morgan 2016
The Autopsy of Jane Doe 2016
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light 2016
War and Peace 2016
Medici: Masters of Florence 2016
Pixels 2015
Forsaken 2015
Pacific Warriors 2015
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace 2015
Killing Thyme 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 2015
The Slap 2015
The Anomaly 2014
The Gospel of John 2014
Scotland In A Day 2014
The Game 2014
Penny Dreadful 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers 2014
The Great War: The People's Story 2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors 2014
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 2014
Her 2013
An Adventure in Space and Time 2013
The Curse of Edgar 2013
Anna 2013
Believe 2013
Blumenthal 2013
RED 2 2013
Shetland 2013
Bob Servant 2013
The Last Leg 2013
The Campaign 2012
Blood 2012
I Missed My Mother's Funeral 2012
All at Sea 2012
The Straits 2012
A Touch of Cloth 2012
Tooned 2012
Addicted to Pleasure 2012
Ironclad 2011
The Veteran 2011
Coriolanus 2011
The Key Man 2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2011
Exit Humanity 2011
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster 2011
The Jonathan Ross Show 2011
The Sinking of the Laconia 2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 2011
As Good As Dead 2010
On Expenses 2010
Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009
The Good Heart 2009
Tell-Tale 2009
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword 2009
Brian Cox's Jute Journey 2009
The Take 2009
The Day of the Triffids 2009
Kings 2009
Red 2008
The Escapist 2008
Agent Crush 2008
The Colour of Magic 2008
Zodiac 2007
Trick 'r Treat 2007
Battle for Terra 2007
The Secret of the Nutcracker 2007
The Water Horse 2007
A Woman in Winter 2007
Shoot on Sight 2007
The Bourne Ultimatum 2007
The Graham Norton Show 2007
M.I. High 2007
Running with Scissors 2006
The Flying Scotsman 2006
The Outsiders 2006
Carry On Ken 2006
The One Show 2006
Red Eye 2005
The Ringer 2005
Japan's War in Colour 2005
Hitler in Colour 2005
Match Point 2005
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle 2005
Blue/Orange 2005
The Colbert Report 2005
Troy 2004 The Bourne Supremacy 2004
The Reckoning 2004
Murder by Numbers 2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson 2004
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man? 2004
Deadwood 2004
The Tony Danza Show 2004
X2 2003
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker 2003
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2 2003
Sin 2003
One Life 2003
Real Time with Bill Maher 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live! 2003
The Ring 2002
25th Hour 2002
The Bourne Identity 2002 Adaptation. 2002
Bug 2002
The Rookie 2002
The Trials of Henry Kissinger 2002
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon 2002
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh 2002
Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World 2002
The Biographer 2002
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch 2002
Top Gear 2002
Masters of Darkness 2002
Super Troopers 2001
L.I.E. 2001
The Affair of the Necklace 2001
Strictly Sinatra 2001
Inside 'Manhunter' 2001
Richard & Judy 2001
Complicity 2000
Mad About Mambo 2000
Longitude 2000
Saltwater 2000
A Shot at Glory 2000
The Invention of Dr. Morel 2000
The Making of 'Rushmore' 2000
Nuremberg 2000
Aqua Teen Hunger Force 2000
Longitude 2000
The Minus Man 1999
The Corruptor 1999
For Love of the Game 1999
The History of the British Police Force 1999
Poodle Springs 1998
Rushmore 1998
Desperate Measures 1998
Merchants of Venus 1998
Battle of the Clans 1998
Kiss the Girls 1997
The Boxer 1997
Sharpe: The Legend 1997
Food for Ravens 1997
I, Caesar – The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire 1997
The Long Kiss Goodnight 1996 Chain Reaction 1996
The Glimmer Man 1996
Witness Against Hitler 1996
Superman: The Animated Series 1996
The Daily Show 1996
Braveheart 1995 Rob Roy 1995
Iron Will 1994
The Maltese Double Cross 1994
Prince of Jutland 1994
Grushko 1994
The Negotiator 1994
Sharpe's Eagle 1993
Sharpe's Rifles 1993
Sharpe 1993
Frasier 1993
The Lost Language of Cranes 1992
The Cloning of Joanna May 1992
The Cutter 1992
Six Characters in Search of An Author 1992
Deceptions 1992
The Big Battalions 1992
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales 1992
Red Fox 1991
Performance 1991
Hidden Agenda 1990
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' 1990
Secret Weapon 1990
Perfect Scoundrels 1990
Have I Got News for You 1990
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy 1989
The Blasphemers' Banquet 1989
Murder on the Moon 1989
The Simpsons 1989
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky 1988
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun 1988
Red Dwarf 1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark 1988
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers 1988
Shoot for the Sun 1987
Rat in the Skull 1987
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People 1987
French & Saunders 1987
Inspector Morse 1987
Acting 1987
Manhunter 1986
Home Cooking 1986
Unnatural Causes 1986
Florence Nightingale 1985
The Cantor of St Thomas's 1985
Pope John Paul II 1984
King Lear 1983
The Privilege 1982
A Cotswold Death 1982
House on the Hill 1981
Dalhousie's Luck 1980
Hammer House of Horror 1980
Therese Raquin 1980
Question Time 1979
Minder 1979
Out 1978
The Devil's Crown 1978
Target 1977
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden 1976
In Celebration 1975
The Changeling 1974
Playhouse 1974
Churchill's People 1974
Van der Valk 1972
Nicholas and Alexandra 1971
Great Performances 1971
Manhunt 1970
Play for Today 1970
The Year of the Sex Olympics 1968
The Gamblers 1967
ITV Playhouse 1967
A Knight in Tarnished Armour 1965
BBC Play of the Month 1965
Theatre 625 1964
The Wednesday Play 1964
A Modern Magician
The Glove
The Planets
Wittgenstein's Poker
Old Pals
Have I Got a Bit More News for You