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Name
Brian Cox

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1946-06-01 (80 years old)

Place of Birth
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.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

1995 Braveheart as Argyle Wallace
2002 The Ring as Richard Morgan
2002 25th Hour as James Brogan
2004 Troy as Agamemnon
1998 Poodle Springs as Clayton Blackstone
2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
2007 Zodiac as Melvin Belli
2002 The Bourne Identity as Ward Abbott
2004 The Bourne Supremacy as Ward Abbott
2022 The Independent as Nick Booker
2002 Adaptation. as Robert McKee
2009 The Good Heart as Jacques
1998 Rushmore as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
1996 The Long Kiss Goodnight as Dr. Nathan Waldman
1999 The Minus Man as Doug
2007 Trick 'r Treat as Mr. Kreeg
2006 Running with Scissors as Dr. Finch
1986 Manhunter as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
2005 Red Eye as Joe Reisert
1995 Rob Roy as Killearn
1994 Iron Will as Angus McTeague
2000 Complicity as Inspector McDunn
1996 Chain Reaction as Lyman Earl Collier
2002 Bug as Cyr
1997 Kiss the Girls as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
1999 The Corruptor as Sean Wallace
1998 Desperate Measures as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
2004 The Reckoning as Tobias
2005 The Ringer as Gary Barker
2008 Red as Avery Ludlow
2009 Tell-Tale as Van Doren
1996 The Glimmer Man as Mr. Smith
2003 X2 as William Stryker
2002 The Rookie as Jim Morris Sr.
2008 The Escapist as Frank Perry
2000 Mad About Mambo as Sidney McLoughlin
2006 The Flying Scotsman as Douglas Baxter
2023 An Interview with Brian Cox as Himself
1989 Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy as Self
2011 Ironclad as Albany
1971 Nicholas and Alexandra as Trotsky
2009 Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword as Green Dragon (voice)
2007 Battle for Terra as General Hemmer (voice)
2010 RED as Ivan Simanov
1997 The Boxer as Joe Hamill
2023 Quasi as Narrator (voice)
1990 Hidden Agenda as Peter Kerrigan
1983 King Lear as Burgundy
2001 Super Troopers as Captain O'Hagen
2005 Japan's War in Colour as Self - Narrator (voice)
1994 The Maltese Double Cross as Narrator (voice)
2001 L.I.E. as Big John Harrigan
1994 Prince of Jutland as Aethelwine
2000 Longitude as Lord Morton
2001 The Affair of the Necklace as Minister Breteuil
1993 Sharpe's Eagle as Major Michael Hogan
1993 Sharpe's Rifles as Major Michael Hogan
2011 The Veteran as Gerry
2007 The Secret of the Nutcracker as Drosselmeyer
2007 The Water Horse as Old Angus
1988 Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky as Voiceover Narrator
1992 The Lost Language of Cranes as Owen Benjamin
2009 Brian Cox's Jute Journey as Self
1989 The Blasphemers' Banquet as Rev. Wallace (voice)
2012 The Campaign as Raymond
2011 Coriolanus as Menenius
2011 The Key Man as Irving
2025 The Parenting as Frank
2007 A Woman in Winter as Dr. Hunt
2013 Her as Alan Watts (voice)
1982 The Privilege as Young Laird
2001 Strictly Sinatra as Chisolm
1968 The Year of the Sex Olympics as Lasar Opie
2012 Blood as Lenny Fairburn
1975 In Celebration as Steven Shaw
2022 Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
1996 Witness Against Hitler as Judge Freisler
2003 The Evolution of an American Filmmaker as Self
2024 Little Wing as Jaan Vari
2013 An Adventure in Space and Time as Sydney Newman
2010 On Expenses as Michael Martin
1992 The Cutter
2012 I Missed My Mother's Funeral as Old Man
1992 Six Characters in Search of An Author as The Director
2013 The Curse of Edgar as Edgar Hoover
2005 Hitler in Colour as Narrator
2013 Anna as Sebastian
2001 Inside 'Manhunter' as Himself
2013 Believe as Matt Busby
2013 Blumenthal as Harold Blumenthal
2024 The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
2013 RED 2 as Ivan
2005 Match Point as Alec Hewett
1974 The Changeling as Alsemero
2022 Ukraine: Answering the Call as Self
1992 Deceptions as Carlton Heard
1984 Pope John Paul II as Father Góra
2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes as John Landon
2025 The Electric State as Popfly (voice)
Soon A Modern Magician as The Voice
2014 The Anomaly as Dr. Langham
2002 The Trials of Henry Kissinger as Self
2014 The Gospel of John as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
2004 Murder by Numbers as Self
2016 Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC as Self
1987 Shoot for the Sun as Dunny
Soon The Glove
2022 Bonnie as Self
1990 The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' as self
2015 Pixels as Admiral Porter
1988 Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun as Jack Purves
2023 Bill Douglas: My Best Friend as Narrator (voice)
2015 Forsaken as James McCurdy
2011 Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster as Glover
2011 Exit Humanity as Malcolm Young (voice)
2024 That Christmas as Santa (voice)
Soon The Planets
2022 Ooh the Banter! as Self
2008 Agent Crush as Spanners (voice)
2002 Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon as Narrator
2007 Shoot on Sight as Daniel Tennant
2024 Skelly as Grandpa
2000 Saltwater as George Beneventi
Soon Wittgenstein's Poker as Bertrand Russell (voice)
1997 Sharpe: The Legend as Hogan
2017 Churchill as Winston Churchill
2016 The Carer as Sir Michael
2016 Morgan as Jim Bryce
2016 The Autopsy of Jane Doe as Tommy Tilden
1999 For Love of the Game as Gary Wheeler
1989 Murder on the Moon as Voronov
2002 Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh as Narrator
2003 The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2 as Self
2014 Scotland In A Day
2005 The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle as Joseph Bell
2026 Glenrothan as Sandy
2019 Pretenders as Henry
1991 Red Fox as Geoffrey Harrison
2000 A Shot at Glory as Martin Smith
1997 Food for Ravens as Aneurin Bevan
2005 Blue/Orange as Dr. Robert Smith
2017 Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation as Narrator
1987 Rat in the Skull as Detective Inspector Nelson
2015 Pacific Warriors as Narrator
1998 Merchants of Venus as Uncle Vladimir
2018 Super Troopers 2 as Captain O'Hagan
2003 Sin as Captain Oakes
2019 Strange but True as Bill
2002 Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World as Narrator
1985 Florence Nightingale as Dr. McGregor
2017 Bob the Builder: Mega Machines as Conrad / Crunch (voice)
2018 The Etruscan Smile as Rory MacNeil
2018 Kubrick by Candlelight as The Narrator
2000 The Invention of Dr. Morel as Dr. Morel
2019 Remember Me as Shane
2020 Last Moment of Clarity as Gilles
2004 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
1985 The Cantor of St Thomas's as Johann Sebastian Bach
2020 The Bay of Silence as Milton
2012 All at Sea as Wally
1990 Secret Weapon as Andrew Neil
2019 The Last Right as Father Reilly
2020 Lawrence After Arabia as Father (Voice)
1994 Grushko as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
1994 The Negotiator as Charlie King
2018 Widdershins as voice
2015 Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
2006 The Outsiders as Gabriel
2020 John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues as John Rebus
2017 An Evening with Brian Cox as Himself
1965 A Knight in Tarnished Armour as Nelson
1982 A Cotswold Death as Dr. Gillespie
2002 The Biographer as Michael O'Mara
1976 Clay, Smeddum and Greenden as George Simpson
2021 Separation as Rivers
1986 Home Cooking as Vic
2021 Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story as Narrator (voice)
2006 Carry On Ken as Self
1987 Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People as Narrator
2023 Mending the Line as Ike Fletcher
2023 Prisoner's Daughter as Max
1980 Dalhousie's Luck as Dalhousie
2000 The Making of 'Rushmore' as Self
2015 Killing Thyme as Norman
2016 Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light as Self
Soon Old Pals as Jimmy
2007 The Bourne Ultimatum as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002 Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch as Narrator
1999 The History of the British Police Force as Narrator (voice)
2026 Super Troopers 3 as Captain O’Hagan
2025 The Marbles as Self - Interviewee
2025 AMR: Dying to Change the World as AMR
2025 Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction as Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)
1998 Battle of the Clans as Narrator
2026 The Sunrise File as Oded Ailam (voice)
2004 Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man? as Self
2008 The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1 as Narrator
2008 The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2 as Narrator
Soon Super Troopers 4 as Captain O'Hagan
2010 As Good As Dead as Reverand Kalahan
Soon Just Dandy as Self

1987 French & Saunders ( 1 episode ) as King Lear
2004 Deadwood ( 9 episodes ) as Jack Langrishe
2004 The Tony Danza Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2006 The One Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
1979 Question Time ( 5 episodes ) as Self - Panellist
1979 Minder ( 1 episode ) as Frank
1987 Inspector Morse ( 1 episode ) as Michael Steppings
2001 Richard & Judy ( 2 episodes ) as Self
1996 Superman: The Animated Series ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
2005 The Colbert Report ( 1 episode )
1992 The Big Battalions ( 5 episodes ) as Edward Hoyland
2000 Nuremberg ( 2 episodes ) as Herman Wilhelm Goering
1988 Red Dwarf ( 1 episode ) as The King
1972 Van der Valk ( 1 episode ) as Stefan Szabo
2003 One Life ( 1 episode )
2011 The Jonathan Ross Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2009 The Take ( 4 episodes ) as Ozzy
1987 Acting ( 1 episode )
2017 Carpool Karaoke: The Series ( 1 episode ) as Self
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Guest
1980 Hammer House of Horror ( 1 episode ) as Chuck
2012 The Straits ( 10 episodes ) as Harry Montebello
1990 Perfect Scoundrels ( 1 episode ) as Father Amedy
1991 Performance ( 1 episode ) as The Director
2013 Shetland ( 2 episodes ) as Magnus Bain
2008 The Colour of Magic ( 2 episodes ) as Narrator
2012 A Touch of Cloth ( 1 episode ) as Bill Ball
1993 Sharpe ( 2 episodes ) as Major Hogan
2015 The Slap ( 8 episodes ) as Manolis
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2014 The Game ( 6 episodes ) as Daddy
2012 Tooned ( 8 episodes ) as The Mechanic
2022 Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live ( 2 episodes ) as Presenter
1989 The Simpsons ( 2 episodes ) as Kostas Becker (voice)
2016 War and Peace ( 6 episodes ) as Mikhail Kutuzov
2014 Penny Dreadful ( 2 episodes ) as Jared Talbot
1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2002 Top Gear ( 2 episodes ) as Self
1993 Frasier ( 2 episodes ) as Harry Moon
2021 Blade Runner: Black Lotus ( 5 episodes ) as Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
2007 The Graham Norton Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2023 007: Road to a Million ( 16 episodes ) as The Controller
1980 Therese Raquin ( 3 episodes ) as Laurent LeClaire
2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2013 Bob Servant ( 9 episodes ) as Bob Servant
2014 The Great War: The People's Story ( 1 episode ) as Rev. Andrew Clark
2017 Brian Cox's Russia ( 2 episodes ) as Host
2011 The Sinking of the Laconia ( 2 episodes ) as Captain Sharp
2022 Piers Morgan Uncensored ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2018 Succession ( 39 episodes ) as Logan Roy
2009 The Day of the Triffids ( 2 episodes ) as Dennis Masen
2023 Made of Money with Brian Cox ( 2 episodes )
2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors ( 1 episode ) as Self
2000 Aqua Teen Hunger Force ( 1 episode ) as Anubis (voice)
2014 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver ( 1 episode ) as God
2017 The Russell Howard Hour ( 1 episode ) as Self
1996 The Daily Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2016 Medici: Masters of Florence ( 8 episodes ) as Bernardo Guadagni
2011 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip ( 1 episode ) as Self - Participant
1970 Manhunt ( 3 episodes ) as Anton
Soon Have I Got a Bit More News for You ( 1 episode ) as Himself - Panellist
2022 Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg ( 7 episodes ) as Self – Actor
2012 Addicted to Pleasure ( 4 episodes ) as Self - Host
2003 Real Time with Bill Maher ( 1 episode ) as Self
1992 Shakespeare: The Animated Tales ( 1 episode ) as Macbeth (voice)
1970 Play for Today ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Gillespie
1988 The Modern World: Ten Great Writers ( 1 episode ) as Henrik Ibsen (voice)
2024 Unsinkable ( 11 episodes ) as Robert Dodds
2021 Amol Rajan Interviews ( 1 episode ) as Self - Interviewed Guest
1965 BBC Play of the Month ( 1 episode ) as Alsemero
1971 Great Performances ( 1 episode ) as Self - Narration (voice)
1978 Out ( 3 episodes ) as McGrath
2013 The Last Leg ( 3 episodes ) as Self
2011 The Jonathan Ross Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2019 Good Omens ( 3 episodes ) as Death (voice)
2025 VE Day 80 ( 1 episode ) as Self
1974 Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Dalhousie
1967 The Gamblers ( 20 episodes ) as Mickey
1977 Target ( 1 episode ) as Billy Voss
2000 Longitude ( 1 episode ) as Lord Morton
1978 The Devil's Crown ( 7 episodes ) as Henry II
1981 House on the Hill ( 1 episode ) as Leon Douglas
1990 Have I Got News for You ( 1 episode ) as Self
1964 Theatre 625 ( 1 episode ) as Lasar Opie
1974 Churchill's People ( 1 episode ) as William Wallace
2009 Kings ( 3 episodes ) as King Vesper Abaddon
1997 I, Caesar – The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 6 episodes ) as Narrator
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2002 Masters of Darkness ( 1 episode ) as Narrator
2022 Remembers… ( 2 episodes )
2007 M.I. High ( 5 episodes ) as Voice of the Mastermind
1967 ITV Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Apeman
2022 Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg ( 1 episode ) as Self - Actor
1986 Unnatural Causes ( 1 episode ) as Vic
1964 The Wednesday Play ( 1 episode ) as Nelson
1975 Shades of Greene ( 1 episode ) as Harry
1992 The Cloning of Joanna May ( 2 episodes ) as Carl May
1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Josef Stalin
1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Rod
1971 Stage 2 ( 1 episode ) as Hastings
1975 The Master of Ballantrae ( 6 episodes ) as Henry Durie
2004 Agatha Christie's Marple ( 1 episode ) as Lewis Serrocold
2025 Dexter: Resurrection ( 10 episodes ) as The New York Ripper
2023 Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius ( 3 episodes ) as Self

Name
Brian Cox

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1946-06-01 (80 years old)

Place of Birth
Dundee, Scotland, UK

Biography

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Name Brian Cox

Known For Acting

Birthday 1946-06-01 (80 years old)

Place of Birth Dundee, Scotland, UK

Biography

Known For

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Name
Brian Cox

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1946-06-01 (80 years old)

Place of Birth
Dundee, Scotland, UK