Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
June 1, 1946
Place of Birth:
Dundee, Scotland, UK
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Brian Cox
Biography
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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Parenting | Frank |
| 2025 | The Electric State | Popfly (voice) |
| 2024 | Little Wing | Jaan Vari |
| 2024 | The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Helm Hammerhand (voice) |
| 2024 | That Christmas | Santa (voice) |
| 2024 | Skelly | Grandpa |
| 2023 | An Interview with Brian Cox | Himself |
| 2023 | Quasi | Narrator (voice) |
| 2023 | Bill Douglas: My Best Friend | Narrator (voice) |
| 2023 | Mending the Line | Ike Fletcher |
| 2023 | Prisoner's Daughter | Max |
| 2022 | The Independent | Nick Booker |
| 2022 | Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba | Self |
| 2022 | Ukraine: Answering the Call | Self |
| 2022 | Bonnie | Self |
| 2022 | Ooh the Banter! | Self |
| 2021 | Separation | Rivers |
| 2021 | Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story | Narrator (voice) |
| 2020 | Last Moment of Clarity | Gilles |
| 2020 | The Bay of Silence | Milton |
| 2020 | Lawrence After Arabia | Father (Voice) |
| 2020 | John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues | John Rebus |
| 2019 | Pretenders | Henry |
| 2019 | Strange But True | Bill |
| 2019 | Remember Me | Shane |
| 2019 | The Last Right | Father Reilly |
| 2018 | Super Troopers 2 | John O'Hagen |
| 2018 | The Etruscan Smile | Rory MacNeil |
| 2018 | Kubrick by Candlelight | The Narrator |
| 2018 | Widdershins | voice |
| 2017 | Churchill | Winston Churchill |
| 2017 | Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation | Narrator |
| 2017 | Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie | Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice) |
| 2017 | An Evening with Brian Cox | Himself |
| 2016 | Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC | Self |
| 2016 | The Carer | Sir Michael |
| 2016 | Morgan | Jim Bryce |
| 2016 | The Autopsy of Jane Doe | Tommy Tilden |
| 2016 | Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light | Self |
| 2015 | Pixels | Admiral Porter |
| 2015 | Forsaken | James McCurdy |
| 2015 | Pacific Warriors | Narrator |
| 2015 | Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace | Andrew Carnegie (voice) |
| 2014 | The Anomaly | Dr. Langham |
| 2014 | The Gospel of John | Narrator (voice) – King James Version |
| 2014 | Scotland In A Day | |
| 2013 | Her | Alan Watts (voice) |
| 2013 | An Adventure in Space and Time | Sydney Newman |
| 2013 | The Curse of Edgar | Edgar Hoover |
| 2013 | Anna | Sebastian |
| 2013 | Believe | Matt Busby |
| 2013 | Blumenthal | Harold Blumenthal |
| 2013 | RED 2 | Ivan |
| 2012 | The Campaign | Raymond |
| 2012 | Blood | Lenny Fairburn |
| 2012 | I Missed My Mother's Funeral | Old Man |
| 2012 | Wide Blue Yonder | Wally |
| 2011 | Ironclad | Albany |
| 2011 | The Veteran | Gerry |
| 2011 | Coriolanus | Menenius |
| 2011 | The Key Man | Irving |
| 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | John Landon |
| 2011 | Exit Humanity | Malcolm Young (voice) |
| 2011 | Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster | Glover |
| 2010 | As Good As Dead | Reverend Kalahan |
| 2010 | RED | Ivan Simanov |
| 2010 | On Expenses | |
| 2009 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Action 12 Reporter (voice) |
| 2009 | The Good Heart | Jacques |
| 2009 | Tell-Tale | Van Doren |
| 2009 | Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword | Green Dragon (voice) |
| 2009 | Brian Cox's Jute Journey | Self |
| 2008 | Red | Avery Ludlow |
| 2008 | The Escapist | Frank Perry |
| 2008 | Agent Crush | Spanners (voice) |
| 2007 | Zodiac | Melvin Belli |
| 2007 | Trick 'r Treat | Mr. Kreeg |
| 2007 | Battle for Terra | General Hemmer (voice) |
| 2007 | The Secret of the Nutcracker | Drosselmeyer |
| 2007 | The Water Horse | Old Angus |
| 2007 | A Woman in Winter | Dr. Hunt |
| 2007 | Shoot on Sight | Daniel Tennant |
| 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum | Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2006 | Running with Scissors | Dr. Finch |
| 2006 | The Flying Scotsman | Douglas Baxter |
| 2006 | The Outsiders | Gabriel |
| 2006 | Carry On Ken | Self |
| 2005 | Red Eye | Joe Reisert |
| 2005 | The Ringer | Gary Barker |
| 2005 | Japan's War In Colour | Narrator |
| 2005 | Hitler in Colour | Narrator |
| 2005 | Match Point | Alec Hewett |
| 2005 | The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle | Joseph Bell |
| 2005 | Blue/Orange | Dr. Robert Smith |
| 2004 | Troy | King Agamemnon |
| 2004 | The Bourne Supremacy | Ward Abbott |
| 2004 | The Reckoning | Tobias |
| 2004 | Murder by Numbers | Self |
| 2004 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) |
| 2003 | X2 | William Stryker |
| 2003 | The Evolution of an American Filmmaker | Self |
| 2003 | The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2 | |
| 2003 | Sin | Captain Oakes |
| 2002 | The Ring | Richard Morgan |
| 2002 | 25th Hour | James Brogan |
| 2002 | The Bourne Identity | Ward Abbott |
| 2002 | Adaptation. | Robert McKee |
| 2002 | Bug | Cyr |
| 2002 | The Rookie | Jim Morris Sr. |
| 2002 | The Trials of Henry Kissinger | |
| 2002 | Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon | Narrator |
| 2002 | Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh | Narrator |
| 2002 | Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World | Narrator |
| 2002 | The Biographer | Michael O'Mara |
| 2002 | Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch | Narrator |
| 2001 | Super Troopers | John O'Hagen |
| 2001 | L.I.E. | Big John Harrigan |
| 2001 | The Affair of the Necklace | Minister Breteuil |
| 2001 | Strictly Sinatra | Chisolm |
| 2001 | Inside 'Manhunter' | Himself |
| 2000 | Complicity | Inspector McDunn |
| 2000 | Mad About Mambo | Sidney McLoughlin |
| 2000 | Longitude | Lord Morton |
| 2000 | Saltwater | George Beneventi |
| 2000 | A Shot at Glory | Martin Smith |
| 2000 | The Invention of Dr. Morel | Dr. Morel |
| 2000 | The Making of 'Rushmore' | Self |
| 1999 | The Minus Man | Doug |
| 1999 | The Corruptor | Sean Wallace |
| 1999 | For Love of the Game | Gary Wheeler |
| 1998 | Poodle Springs | Clayton Blackstone |
| 1998 | Rushmore | Dr. Nelson Guggenheim |
| 1998 | Desperate Measures | Captain Jeremiah Cassidy |
| 1998 | Merchants of Venus | Uncle Vladimir |
| 1997 | Kiss the Girls | Chief Hatfield, Durham PD |
| 1997 | The Boxer | Joe Hamill |
| 1997 | Sharpe: The Legend | Hogan |
| 1997 | Food for Ravens | Aneurin Bevan |
| 1996 | The Long Kiss Goodnight | Dr. Nathan Waldman |
| 1996 | Chain Reaction | Lyman Earl Collier |
| 1996 | The Glimmer Man | Mr. Smith |
| 1996 | Witness Against Hitler | Judge Freisler |
| 1995 | Braveheart | Argyle Wallace |
| 1995 | Rob Roy | Killearn |
| 1994 | Iron Will | Angus McTeague |
| 1994 | The Maltese Double Cross | Narrator (voice) |
| 1994 | Prince of Jutland | Aethelwine |
| 1994 | Grushko | Colonel Yevgeni Grushko |
| 1994 | The Negotiator | Charlie King |
| 1993 | Sharpe's Eagle | Major Michael Hogan |
| 1993 | Sharpe's Rifles | Major Michael Hogan |
| 1992 | The Lost Language of Cranes | Owen Benjamin |
| 1992 | The Cloning of Joanna May | Carl May |
| 1992 | The Cutter | |
| 1992 | Six Characters in Search of An Author | The Director |
| 1992 | Deceptions | Carlton Heard |
| 1992 | Macbeth | Macbeth |
| 1991 | Red Fox | Geoffrey Harrison |
| 1990 | Hidden Agenda | Peter Kerrigan |
| 1990 | The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' | self |
| 1990 | Secret Weapon | Andrew Neil |
| 1989 | Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy | Self |
| 1989 | The Blasphemers' Banquet | Rev. Wallace (voice) |
| 1989 | Murder on the Moon | Voronov |
| 1988 | Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky | Voiceover Narrator |
| 1988 | Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun | Jack Purves |
| 1987 | Shoot for the Sun | Dunny |
| 1987 | Rat in the Skull | Detective Inspector Nelson |
| 1987 | Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People | Narrator |
| 1986 | Manhunter | Dr. Hannibal Lecktor |
| 1986 | Home Cooking | Vic |
| 1985 | Florence Nightingale | Dr. McGregor |
| 1985 | The Cantor of St Thomas's | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| 1984 | Pope John Paul II | Father Góra |
| 1983 | King Lear | Burgundy |
| 1982 | The Privilege | Young Laird |
| 1982 | A Cotswold Death | Dr. Gillespie |
| 1980 | Dalhousie's Luck | Dalhousie |
| 1976 | Clay, Smeddum and Greenden | George Simpson |
| 1975 | In Celebration | Steven Shaw |
| 1974 | The Changeling | Alsemero |
| 1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Trotsky |
| 1968 | The Year of the Sex Olympics | Lasar Opie |
| 1965 | A Knight in Tarnished Armour | Nelson |
| A Modern Magician | The Voice | |
| The Glove | ||
| The Planets | ||
| Wittgenstein's Poker | Bertrand Russell (voice) | |
| Glenrothan | Sandy | |
| Killing Thyme | Norman | |
| Old Pals | Jimmy |