Brian Cox
Acting
Born: June 1, 1946 (age 80) · Dundee, Scotland, UK
Highest Rated
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
Her
2013
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
Zodiac
2007
Braveheart
1995
Troy
2004
X2
2003
The Simpsons
1989
The Bourne Identity
2002
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007
The Bourne Supremacy
2004
Pixels
2015
RED
2010
Photos (10)
Movies (165)
Troy
Agamemnon
The Bourne Identity
Ward Abbott
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
John Landon
Braveheart
Argyle Wallace
Zodiac
Melvin Belli
Her
Alan Watts (voice)
Pixels
Admiral Porter
The Bourne Ultimatum
Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Bourne Supremacy
Ward Abbott
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Action 12 Reporter (voice)
The Ring
Richard Morgan
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Tommy Tilden
The Electric State
Popfly (voice)
RED
Ivan Simanov
RED 2
Ivan
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Helm Hammerhand (voice)
Kiss the Girls
Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Dr. Nathan Waldman
Red Eye
Joe Reisert
Match Point
Alec Hewett
Chain Reaction
Lyman Earl Collier
Adaptation.
Robert McKee
25th Hour
James Brogan
Rushmore
Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
Trick 'r Treat
Mr. Kreeg
The Parenting
Frank
That Christmas
Santa (voice)
Anna
Sebastian
Rob Roy
Killearn
The Corruptor
Sean Wallace
Super Troopers
Captain O'Hagen
For Love of the Game
Gary Wheeler
Super Troopers 3
Captain O’Hagan
Glenrothan
Sandy
Morgan
Jim Bryce
Ironclad
Albany
The Rookie
Jim Morris Sr.
Battle for Terra
General Hemmer (voice)
Super Troopers 2
Captain O'Hagan
The Water Horse
Old Angus
Forsaken
James McCurdy
The Glimmer Man
Mr. Smith
Desperate Measures
Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
The Campaign
Raymond
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines
Conrad / Crunch (voice)
Last Moment of Clarity
Gilles
The Bay of Silence
Milton
The Veteran
Gerry
Coriolanus
Menenius
The Escapist
Frank Perry
The Anomaly
Dr. Langham
The Independent
Nick Booker
Prisoner's Daughter
Max
The Flying Scotsman
Douglas Baxter
Running with Scissors
Dr. Finch
The Reckoning
Tobias
Hidden Agenda
Peter Kerrigan
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
Glover
Strange but True
Bill
The Boxer
Joe Hamill
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
Green Dragon (voice)
Separation
Rivers
Blood
Lenny Fairburn
The Affair of the Necklace
Minister Breteuil
Iron Will
Angus McTeague
The Minus Man
Doug
Nicholas and Alexandra
Trotsky
The Good Heart
Jacques
Red
Avery Ludlow
Remember Me
Shane
The Ringer
Gary Barker
Poodle Springs
Clayton Blackstone
Churchill
Winston Churchill
Quasi
Narrator (voice)
The Etruscan Smile
Rory MacNeil
Sharpe's Rifles
Major Michael Hogan
Longitude
Lord Morton
Shoot on Sight
Daniel Tennant
The Sunrise File
Oded Ailam (voice)
Mending the Line
Ike Fletcher
The Carer
Sir Michael
Sharpe: The Legend
Hogan
Sin
Captain Oakes
As Good As Dead
Reverand Kalahan
Agent Crush
Spanners (voice)
Killing Thyme
Norman
Little Wing
Jaan Vari
Tell-Tale
Van Doren
The Lost Language of Cranes
Owen Benjamin
An Adventure in Space and Time
Sydney Newman
Merchants of Venus
Uncle Vladimir
The Last Right
Father Reilly
L.I.E.
Big John Harrigan
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
Narrator
Sharpe's Eagle
Major Michael Hogan
Prince of Jutland
Aethelwine
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Voiceover Narrator
Florence Nightingale
Dr. McGregor
Believe
Matt Busby
The Negotiator
Charlie King
Exit Humanity
Malcolm Young (voice)
The Cutter
1992
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
Narrator
A Shot at Glory
Martin Smith
The Key Man
Irving
Mad About Mambo
Sidney McLoughlin
Home Cooking
Vic
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Joseph Bell
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)
The Invention of Dr. Morel
Dr. Morel
Pope John Paul II
Father Góra
The Privilege
Young Laird
Skelly
Grandpa
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Jack Purves
Strictly Sinatra
Chisolm
Saltwater
George Beneventi
Bug
Cyr
The Biographer
Michael O'Mara
Murder on the Moon
Voronov
King Lear
Burgundy
Red Fox
Geoffrey Harrison
All at Sea
Wally
Lawrence After Arabia
Father (Voice)
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
Narrator (voice)
Secret Weapon
Andrew Neil
The Gospel of John
Narrator (voice) – King James Version
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
George Simpson
The Changeling
Alsemero
Dalhousie's Luck
Dalhousie
Hitler in Colour
Narrator
Blue/Orange
Dr. Robert Smith
The Secret of the Nutcracker
Drosselmeyer
Complicity
Inspector McDunn
Pretenders
Henry
X2
William Stryker
The Year of the Sex Olympics
Lasar Opie
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
Andrew Carnegie (voice)
The Maltese Double Cross
Narrator (voice)
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
Narrator (voice)
A Cotswold Death
Dr. Gillespie
On Expenses
Michael Martin
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
Narrator
Pacific Warriors
Narrator
Kubrick by Candlelight
The Narrator
Witness Against Hitler
Judge Freisler
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
Narrator
The Blasphemers' Banquet
Rev. Wallace (voice)
In Celebration
Steven Shaw
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
Narrator
Shoot for the Sun
Dunny
A Woman in Winter
Dr. Hunt
Grushko
Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
Battle of the Clans
Narrator
The Curse of Edgar
Edgar Hoover
Food for Ravens
Aneurin Bevan
Deceptions
Carlton Heard
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
Narrator
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
Narrator
The Cantor of St Thomas's
Johann Sebastian Bach
Six Characters in Search of An Author
The Director
Widdershins
voice
The Color of Magic 2in1
Vypravěč
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
John Rebus
Manhunter
Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
TV Shows (68)
The Simpsons
Kostas Becker (voice) · 2 eps
Frasier
Harry Moon · 2 eps
Play for Today
Dr. Gillespie · 1 eps
The Colbert Report
1 eps
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
God · 1 eps
Succession
Logan Roy · 39 eps
Shetland
Magnus Bain · 2 eps
Superman: The Animated Series
Dr. Earl Garver (voice) · 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Alsemero · 1 eps
Agatha Christie's Marple
Lewis Serrocold · 1 eps
Minder
Frank · 1 eps
The Wednesday Play
Nelson · 1 eps
Deadwood
Jack Langrishe · 9 eps
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Anubis (voice) · 1 eps
ITV Playhouse
Apeman · 1 eps
Inspector Morse
Michael Steppings · 1 eps
Good Omens
Death (voice) · 3 eps
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Josef Stalin · 1 eps
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Rod · 1 eps
Red Dwarf
The King · 1 eps
Dexter: Resurrection
The New York Ripper
Penny Dreadful
Jared Talbot · 2 eps
Performance
The Director · 1 eps
Playhouse
Dalhousie · 1 eps
Medici: Masters of Florence
Bernardo Guadagni · 8 eps
Remembers…
2 eps
Theatre 625
Lasar Opie · 1 eps
Churchill's People
William Wallace · 1 eps
Sharpe
Major Hogan · 2 eps
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
Niander Wallace Sr. (voice) · 5 eps
War and Peace
Mikhail Kutuzov · 6 eps
M.I. High
Voice of the Mastermind · 5 eps
The Colour of Magic
Narrator · 2 eps
French & Saunders
King Lear · 1 eps
Kings
King Vesper Abaddon · 3 eps
Van der Valk
Stefan Szabo · 1 eps
Hammer House of Horror
Chuck · 1 eps
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Macbeth (voice) · 1 eps
The Slap
Manolis · 8 eps
The Take
Ozzy · 4 eps
The Game
Daddy · 6 eps
007: Road to a Million
The Controller · 16 eps
The Sinking of the Laconia
Captain Sharp · 2 eps
A Touch of Cloth
Bill Ball · 1 eps
Target
Billy Voss · 1 eps
Nuremberg
Herman Wilhelm Goering · 2 eps
Manhunt
Anton · 3 eps
Longitude
Lord Morton · 1 eps
Unsinkable
Robert Dodds · 11 eps
Unnatural Causes
Vic · 1 eps
House on the Hill
Leon Douglas · 1 eps
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Henrik Ibsen (voice) · 1 eps
The Day of the Triffids
Dennis Masen · 2 eps
The Great War: The People's Story
Rev. Andrew Clark · 1 eps
The Straits
Harry Montebello · 10 eps
Perfect Scoundrels
Father Amedy · 1 eps
Bob Servant
Bob Servant · 9 eps
Shades of Greene
Harry · 1 eps
Tooned
The Mechanic · 8 eps
Out
McGrath · 3 eps
The Cloning of Joanna May
Carl May · 2 eps
Therese Raquin
Laurent LeClaire · 3 eps
I, Caesar – The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
Narrator · 6 eps
The Big Battalions
Edward Hoyland · 5 eps
Made of Money with Brian Cox
2 eps
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live
Presenter · 2 eps
The Devil's Crown
Henry II · 7 eps
Brian Cox's Russia
Host · 2 eps
Self / Appearances (49)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · 2 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest · 2 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self · 2 eps
The Daily Show
Self · 1 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · 2 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self · 1 eps
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self · 1 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest · 1 eps
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Great Performances
Self - Narration (voice) · 1 eps
Top Gear
Self · 2 eps
Have I Got News for You
Self · 1 eps
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self – Actor · 7 eps
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self - Actor · 1 eps
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · 1 eps
Richard & Judy
Self · 2 eps
The One Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Question Time
Self - Panellist · 5 eps
The Last Leg
Self · 3 eps
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self · 1 eps
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
Self · 1 eps
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Self - Participant · 1 eps
The Russell Howard Hour
Self · 1 eps
Piers Morgan Uncensored
Self · 2 eps
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
Self · 3 eps
Bonnie
Self
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
Self
Amol Rajan Interviews
Self - Interviewed Guest · 1 eps
VE Day 80
Self · 1 eps
The Marbles
Self - Interviewee
Inside 'Manhunter'
Himself
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Self
Addicted to Pleasure
Self - Host · 4 eps
Ukraine: Answering the Call
Self
X-Men: Evolution of a Trilogy
Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
The Making of 'Rushmore'
Self
Ooh the Banter!
Self
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
Self
Japan's War in Colour
Self - Narrator (voice)
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Self
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
self
Murder by Numbers
Self
Carry On Ken
Self
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Self
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
Self
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
Self
An Interview with Brian Cox
Himself
