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