Brian Cox
Brian Denis Cox CBE 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.
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Known for
The Simpsons
Kostas Becker (voice)
Minder
Frank
Shetland
Magnus Bain
Frasier
Harry Moon
Play for Today
Dr. Gillespie
Great Performances
Self - Narration (voice)
Inspector Morse
Michael Steppings
BBC Play of the Month
Alsemero
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Anubis (voice)
Penny Dreadful
Jared Talbot
French & Saunders
King Lear
Superman: The Animated Series
Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
Succession
Logan Roy
Performance
The Director
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
Self
Sharpe
Major Hogan
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Helm Hammerhand (voice)
Red Dwarf
The King
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Henrik Ibsen (voice)
A Touch of Cloth
Bill Ball
Medici: Masters of Florence
Bernardo Guadagni
Deadwood
Jack Langrishe
Good Omens
Death (voice)
Troy
King Agamemnon
The Straits
Harry Montebello
The Take
Ozzy
Her
Alan Watts (voice)
The Electric State
Popfly (voice)
Longitude
Lord Morton
Unsinkable
Robert Dodds
Braveheart
Argyle Wallace
Pixels
Admiral Porter
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Tommy Tilden
Zodiac
Melvin Belli
The Ring
Richard Morgan
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
John Landon
Van der Valk
Stefan Szabo
RED
Ivan Simanov
The Devil's Crown
Henry II of England
The Colour of Magic
Narrator
The Slap
Manolis
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
The Bourne Identity
Ward Abbott
Hammer House of Horror
Chuck
Manhunt
Anton
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Action 12 Reporter (voice)
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Macbeth (voice)
War and Peace
Mikhail Kutuzov
The Parenting
Frank
The Bourne Ultimatum
Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
007: Road to a Million
The Controller
That Christmas
Santa (voice)
Kiss the Girls
Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
The Bourne Supremacy
Ward Abbott
The Sinking of the Laconia
Captain Sharp
RED 2
Ivan
The Campaign
Raymond
Nuremberg
Herman Wilhelm Goering
The Game
Daddy
Tooned
The Mechanic
Red Eye
Joe Reisert
The Water Horse
Old Angus
Mending the Line
Ike Fletcher
The Great War: The People's Story
Rev. Andrew Clark
Separation
Rivers
Last Moment of Clarity
Gilles
Unnatural Causes
Vic
Morgan
Jim Bryce
Forsaken
James McCurdy
Ironclad
Albany
Super Troopers
John O'Hagen
The Glimmer Man
Mr. Smith
Super Troopers 2
John O'Hagen
25th Hour
James Brogan
Anna
Sebastian
Match Point
Alec Hewett
The Corruptor
Sean Wallace
The Rookie
Jim Morris Sr.
Desperate Measures
Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
One Life
The Bay of Silence
Milton
For Love of the Game
Gary Wheeler
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Dr. Nathan Waldman
Trick 'r Treat
Mr. Kreeg
Out
McGrath
Adaptation.
Robert McKee
The Day of the Triffids
Dennis Masen
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
Glover
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
Self
The Big Battalions
Edward Hoyland
Rushmore
Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
Merchants of Venus
Uncle Vladimir
Iron Will
Angus McTeague
Perfect Scoundrels
Father Amedy
Addicted to Pleasure
Self - Host
The Ringer
Gary Barker
Running with Scissors
Dr. Finch
Churchill
Winston Churchill
The Independent
Nick Booker
Prisoner's Daughter
Max
Blood
Lenny Fairburn
Strange But True
Bill
Nicholas and Alexandra
Trotsky
An Adventure in Space and Time
Sydney Newman
Longitude
Lord Morton
The Anomaly
Dr. Langham
L.I.E.
Big John Harrigan
Rob Roy
Killearn
Chain Reaction
Lyman Earl Collier
Hidden Agenda
Peter Kerrigan
Sin
Captain Oakes
Bob Servant
Bob Servant
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice)
The Reckoning
Tobias
The Good Heart
Jacques
Quasi
Narrator (voice)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
The Etruscan Smile
Rory MacNeil
Red
Avery Ludlow
Tell-Tale
Van Doren
Poodle Springs
Clayton Blackstone
The Minus Man
Doug
Bonnie
Self
Prince of Jutland
Aethelwine
The Boxer
Joe Hamill
Believe
Matt Busby
Pope John Paul II
Father Góra
The Carer
Sir Michael
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live
Presenter
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
Green Dragon (voice)
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2
Coriolanus
Menenius
Bug
Cyr
Sharpe: The Legend
Hogan
A Shot at Glory
Martin Smith
Acting
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
Narrator (voice)
Therese Raquin
Laurent
Mad About Mambo
Sidney McLoughlin
The Veteran
Gerry
Complicity
Inspector McDunn
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Jack Purves
Remember Me
Shane
Pretenders
Henry
The Changeling
Alsemero
The Flying Scotsman
Douglas Baxter
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Self
As Good As Dead
Reverend Kalahan
Sharpe's Eagle
Major Michael Hogan
The Lost Language of Cranes
Owen Benjamin
The Escapist
Frank Perry
Battle for Terra
General Hemmer (voice)
King Lear
Burgundy
The Last Right
Father Reilly
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Self
Made of Money with Brian Cox
The Key Man
Irving
The Affair of the Necklace
Minister Breteuil
Saltwater
George Beneventi
Little Wing
Jaan Vari
Ooh the Banter!
Self
Murder on the Moon
Voronov
Sharpe's Rifles
Major Michael Hogan
In Celebration
Steven Shaw
Strictly Sinatra
Chisolm
Florence Nightingale
Dr. McGregor
Blue/Orange
Dr. Robert Smith
Wide Blue Yonder
Wally
Shoot on Sight
Daniel Tennant
Grushko
Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
Skelly
Grandpa
The Making of 'Rushmore'
Self
Witness Against Hitler
Judge Freisler
Agent Crush
Spanners (voice)
A Cotswold Death
Dr. Gillespie
The Year of the Sex Olympics
Lasar Opie
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Joseph Bell
Secret Weapon
Andrew Neil
Exit Humanity
Malcolm Young (voice)
Old Pals
Jimmy
A Woman in Winter
Dr. Hunt
The Cloning of Joanna May
Carl May
Blumenthal
Harold Blumenthal
The Biographer
Michael O'Mara
Shoot for the Sun
Dunny
Scotland In A Day
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
Narrator
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
On Expenses
Murder by Numbers
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
The Curse of Edgar
Edgar Hoover
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
George Simpson
The Negotiator
Charlie King
The Gospel of John
Narrator (voice) – King James Version
Glenrothan
Sandy
Red Fox
Geoffrey Harrison
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
Wittgenstein's Poker
Bertrand Russell (voice)
Food for Ravens
Aneurin Bevan
Ukraine: Answering the Call
Self
The Secret of the Nutcracker
Drosselmeyer
Carry On Ken
Self
Inside 'Manhunter'
Himself
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
The Outsiders
Gabriel
Widdershins
voice
Dalhousie's Luck
Dalhousie
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
Nelson
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Voiceover Narrator
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
Old Man
Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World
Narrator
Deceptions
Carlton Heard
Lawrence After Arabia
Father (Voice)
Brian Cox's Russia
Host
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
Narrator
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
The Invention of Dr. Morel
Dr. Morel
Home Cooking
Vic
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
Narrator
X2
William Stryker
The Graham Norton Show
Self
The Privilege
Young Laird
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
Self
Hitler in Colour
Narrator
An Interview with Brian Cox
Himself
An Evening with Brian Cox
Himself
Pacific Warriors
Narrator
Six Characters in Search of An Author
The Director
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
Narrator (voice)
The Cutter
The Daily Show
Self
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
Narrator
Japan's War In Colour
Narrator
The Glove
Rat in the Skull
Detective Inspector Nelson
The Blasphemers' Banquet
Rev. Wallace (voice)
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
John Rebus
Killing Thyme
Norman
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
Andrew Carnegie (voice)
The Maltese Double Cross
Narrator (voice)
The Cantor of St Thomas's
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
Self
A Modern Magician
The Voice
The Planets
Kubrick by Candlelight
The Narrator
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
God
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
Narrator
Top Gear
Self
The Colbert Report
Manhunter
Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Himself - Panellist
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self – Actor
The Last Leg
Self
The One Show
Self - Guest
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self - Guest
Richard & Judy
Self
Question Time
Self - Panellist
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
The Tony Danza Show
Self
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Self - Participant
The Russell Howard Hour
Self
Piers Morgan Uncensored
Self
VE Day 80
Himself