Brian Cox

Acting · 4.4 popularity

Age

Movies

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Born: June 1, 1946
From: 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.

Works

201 films

Troy

20047.2

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

20117.3

Braveheart

19957.9

The Bourne Identity

20027.5

Pixels

20155.8

Zodiac

20077.5

The Electric State

20256.5

Her

20137.8

The Bourne Supremacy

20047.3

RED

20106.7

The Bourne Ultimatum

20077.4

Fantastic Mr. Fox

20097.8

The Ring

20026.7

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

20166.8

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

20246.6

Red Eye

20056.4

RED 2

20136.5

Kiss the Girls

19976.5

Match Point

20057.4

Super Troopers 3

2026

Adaptation.

20027.3

25th Hour

20027.3

The Campaign

20125.8

The Rookie

20026.8

Super Troopers

20016.5

The Long Kiss Goodnight

19966.6

Chain Reaction

19965.8

Trick 'r Treat

20077.0

That Christmas

20247.1

Rushmore

19987.4

The Parenting

20256.0

The Glimmer Man

19965.4

Anna

20136.5

Glenrothan

20266.6

Forsaken

20156.2

Rob Roy

19956.7

The Water Horse

20076.5

Super Troopers 2

20185.9

Morgan

20165.8

The Corruptor

19996.1

Ironclad

20116.2

Iron Will

19946.7

For Love of the Game

19996.4

The Ringer

20055.7

Desperate Measures

19986.0

The Boxer

19976.7

Last Moment of Clarity

20205.2

Coriolanus

20115.8

Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword

20097.7

Battle for Terra

20076.1

The Bay of Silence

20204.5

Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster

20115.6

Remember Me

20196.3

Bonnie

20225.3

Churchill

20176.2

Mending the Line

20236.6

Red

20086.3

The Escapist

20086.2

Running with Scissors

20065.8

Nicholas and Alexandra

19717.0

The Independent

20226.5

Bob Constructorul: Mega Mașini

20178.3

Blood

20125.9

Strange but True

20196.0

Separation

20215.6

Poodle Springs

19985.5

The Good Heart

20096.4

The Carer

20166.6

The Anomaly

20145.0

The Reckoning

20046.4

Tell-Tale

20095.3

Sharpe: The Legend

19976.1

L.I.E.

20016.7

The Flying Scotsman

20066.5

A Shot at Glory

20005.7

Ukraine: Answering the Call

2022

Quasi

20235.1

Hidden Agenda

19906.9

The Etruscan Smile

20186.3

The Affair of the Necklace

20015.6

Shoot on Sight

20076.2

The Veteran

20115.9

Merchants of Venus

19986.3

Prisoner's Daughter

20236.2

An Adventure in Space and Time

20137.7

The Minus Man

19995.5

Sin

20034.8

Sharpe's Rifles

19936.8

Little Wing

20246.6

Florence Nightingale

19856.0

Killing Thyme

20157.0

Blumenthal

20134.0

Prince of Jutland

19945.4

Longitude

20007.4

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

2016

Inside 'Manhunter'

20017.8

Skelly

20246.2

The Simpsons: A Serious Flanders

202110.0

Mad About Mambo

20005.3

The Sunrise File

2026

Lawrence After Arabia

20204.2

Home Cooking

1986

Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun

19886.0

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

20047.2

Rat in the Skull

1987

As Good As Dead

20105.0

The Lost Language of Cranes

19925.9

Sharpe's Eagle

19937.2

The Last Right

20196.1

The History of the British Police Force

1999

Believe

20136.1

Kubrick by Candlelight

20187.0

Exit Humanity

20115.2

The Cloning of Joanna May

19927.0

The Negotiator

19949.0

Bug

20027.1

The Year of the Sex Olympics

19685.2

The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2

2008

The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1

2008

Secret Weapon

19907.5

Dalhousie's Luck

1980

Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon

20027.2

The Invention of Dr. Morel

20008.0

King Lear

19836.7

The Biographer

20029.0

The Outsiders

20064.0

The Key Man

20113.7

Battle of the Clans

1998

Bill Douglas: My Best Friend

2023

The Planets

2026

The Making of 'Rushmore'

20006.3

Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction

2025

Pretenders

20195.2

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

20037.3

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

20227.8

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

19887.6

The Privilege

19827.0

Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

19767.0

On Expenses

2010

The Secret of the Nutcracker

20075.3

The Changeling

19748.5

Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?

20042.0

The Marbles

2025

The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2

20037.0

The Blasphemers' Banquet

1989

A Knight in Tarnished Armour

19657.0

Red Fox

19916.0

Saltwater

20007.1

Pope John Paul II

19847.5

Hitler in Colour

20057.9

Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story

20215.0

Agent Crush

20084.8

Murder on the Moon

19893.8

A Cotswold Death

19827.0

Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy

1989

Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC

2016

Strictly Sinatra

20015.0

20037.0

Pacific Warriors

20156.8

Old Pals

2026

All at Sea

20124.5

Grushko

19947.5

A Woman in Winter

20077.5

Japan's War in Colour

20058.0

The Cutter

1992

Complicity

20005.8

Brian Cox's Jute Journey

2009

The Curse of Edgar

20137.2

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

20056.6

An Interview with Brian Cox

2023

Blue/Orange

20056.7

Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace

20156.7

The Maltese Double Cross

19948.0

Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch

20028.0

The Gospel of John

20147.0

Carry On Ken

2006

Six Characters in Search of An Author

19926.0

Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh

20027.0

A Modern Magician

2026

Murder by Numbers

20047.0

Witness Against Hitler

19968.0

The Trials of Henry Kissinger

20026.9

Deceptions

19929.0

Wittgenstein's Poker

2026

I Missed My Mother's Funeral

2012

In Celebration

19755.2

The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'

1990

John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues

2020

Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People

1987

Food for Ravens

19977.0

Shoot for the Sun

19877.0

Scotland In A Day

2014

Ooh the Banter!

2022

Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World

20027.0

Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation

2017

The Cantor of St Thomas's

19857.0

The Glove

2026

An Evening with Brian Cox

2017

Widdershins

20187.5

AMR: Dying to Change the World

2025

Manhunter

19867.0