Bryan Cranston

Acting · 5.8 popularity

Age

Movies

105

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Born: March 7, 1956
From: 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 seven Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, 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 has also starred in the drama series Your Honor (2020–2023). On stage, he earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his portrayal of President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Broadway play All the Way (2014), a role he reprised in the 2016 HBO film of the same name. 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), Isle of Dogs (2018), Asteroid City (2023), and The Phoenician Scheme (2025). He has also voiced roles in Madagascar 3 (2012), Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016), and Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Bryan Cranston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

105 films

The Sheep Detectives

20267.9

Saving Private Ryan

19988.2

Kung Fu Panda 4

20247.0

Drive

20117.6

Kung Fu Panda 3

20166.9

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

20126.6

John Carter

20126.4

Total Recall

20126.0

Godzilla

20146.4

Argo

20127.3

Isle of Dogs

20187.8

Power Rangers

20176.2

The Phoenician Scheme

20256.5

Why Him?

20166.4

Argylle

20246.0

Contagion

20116.7

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

20197.0

Asteroid City

20236.5

The Upside

20197.1

Little Miss Sunshine

20067.7

Dead Silence

19916.3

The Lincoln Lawyer

20117.2

Larry Crowne

20116.0

Rock of Ages

20126.2

Detachment

20117.6

That Thing You Do!

19966.9

Red Tails

20126.7

The Infiltrator

20166.7

Jerry & Marge Go Large

20227.4

The Disaster Artist

20177.1

The One and Only Ivan

20207.3

Get a Job

20165.3

The Power of the Present

20178.5

Wakefield

20176.1

Trumbo

20157.2

Batman: Year One

20117.2

All the Way

20166.6

Terror Tract

20006.0

Amazon Women on the Moon

19875.9

Chili Finger

2026

Armitage III: Poly Matrix

19966.5

David Blaine: Real or Magic

20136.8

Tangles

2027

In Dubious Battle

20165.8

Everything's Going to Be Great

20255.9

Last Flag Flying

20176.7

Dead Space

19913.8

Love Ranch

20105.4

Show of Titles

2021

No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad

20138.4

Cold Comes the Night

20135.4

Clean Slate

19945.8

Seeing Other People

20045.8

Kramer vs. Kramer: Kenny to Cosmo

20047.0

The Words That Built America

20176.0

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

19877.3

Illusion

20047.7

David Blaine: The Magic Way

20206.6

Network

2018

Grendel

2026

Pink Elephants

20186.2

Leave

20116.3

Erotique

19944.0

An Audience with Adele

20218.4

'Twas the Night

20015.6

Time Under Fire

19975.3

National Theatre Live: All My Sons

202610.0

Strategic Command

19975.0

CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion

20185.2

The Big Turnaround

19884.7

The Santa Claus Brothers

20026.6

The Companion

19945.3

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon

20055.8

Ancient Caves

202010.0

Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés

2024

The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime

19966.8

Jackpot

2026

Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story

19935.6

The Concert for Valor

20148.6

Love Letters

2020

Malcolm in the Middle 2020 Zoom Reunion

20201.0

Every Act of Life

20186.4

Barely Legal Pawn

20148.0

The Story of Soaps

20207.0

Street Corner Justice

19965.0

Assassination

2026

Hard Four

20074.9

Loving

1983

Holiday Reunion

20034.2

Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl

20227.0

Corporate Affairs

19903.3

To Race the Wind

19808.8

Last Chance

19996.8

Writer's Block

20134.1

The Disappearance of Nora

19935.8

Seth Rogen Is the Worst Person in the World

20136.4

When We Went MAD!

20255.3

Sell/Buy/Date

20228.0

Kissing Miranda

19954.0

Sense of Smell

201410.0

Lone Wolf

2026

The Big Thing

20089.0

Übermansion

201310.0

Experience Yosemite

2022

Moscow Mule

2024