Brian Cox

Brian Cox

Birthday: 1946-06-01

Place of birth: Dundee, Scotland, UK

Also known as: Brian Denis Cox, Brian Cox CBE, برایان کاکس

imdb_id: nm0004051

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.

Played in movies:

Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie

Score: 8.3

Japan's War in Colour

Score: 8.0

Braveheart

Score: 7.9

Hitler in Colour

Score: 7.9

Her

Score: 7.8

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

Score: 7.8

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Score: 7.8

An Adventure in Space and Time

Score: 7.7

A Woman in Winter

Score: 7.7

Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword

Score: 7.7

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

Score: 7.6

Zodiac

Score: 7.5

The Bourne Identity

Score: 7.5

The Bourne Ultimatum

Score: 7.4

Longitude

Score: 7.4

Rushmore

Score: 7.4

Match Point

Score: 7.4

Adaptation.

Score: 7.3

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Score: 7.3

Widdershins

Score: 7.3

The Bourne Supremacy

Score: 7.3

25th Hour

Score: 7.3

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

Score: 7.3

The Curse of Edgar

Score: 7.2

Bug

Score: 7.2

Troy

Score: 7.2

That Christmas

Score: 7.2

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Score: 7.1

Sharpe's Eagle

Score: 7.1

X2

Score: 7.0

Manhunter

Score: 7.0

Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

Score: 7.0

A Cotswold Death

Score: 7.0

Kubrick by Candlelight

Score: 7.0

Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World

Score: 7.0

The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2

Score: 7.0

The Gospel of John

Score: 7.0

The Changeling

Score: 7.0

Inside 'Manhunter'

Score: 7.0

The Cloning of Joanna May

Score: 7.0

The Maltese Double Cross

Score: 7.0

Trick 'r Treat

Score: 7.0

Hidden Agenda

Score: 7.0

Nicholas and Alexandra

Score: 6.9

Saltwater

Score: 6.9

The Trials of Henry Kissinger

Score: 6.9

Pope John Paul II

Score: 6.9

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

Score: 6.8

The Rookie

Score: 6.8

Pacific Warriors

Score: 6.8

Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon

Score: 6.8

L.I.E.

Score: 6.8

Iron Will

Score: 6.7

RED

Score: 6.7

Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace

Score: 6.7

Rob Roy

Score: 6.7

The Boxer

Score: 6.7

Sharpe's Rifles

Score: 6.7

The Ring

Score: 6.7

The Independent

Score: 6.7

Little Wing

Score: 6.6

The Carer

Score: 6.6

Super Troopers

Score: 6.6

The Flying Scotsman

Score: 6.6

The Long Kiss Goodnight

Score: 6.6

Mending the Line

Score: 6.6

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

Score: 6.6

RED 2

Score: 6.5

Anna

Score: 6.5

The Water Horse

Score: 6.5

King Lear

Score: 6.5

Kiss the Girls

Score: 6.5

The Electric State

Score: 6.5

For Love of the Game

Score: 6.4

Red Eye

Score: 6.4

The Good Heart

Score: 6.4

The Reckoning

Score: 6.4

Remember Me

Score: 6.3

The Etruscan Smile

Score: 6.3

Red

Score: 6.2

Skelly

Score: 6.2

Battle for Terra

Score: 6.2

The Escapist

Score: 6.2

Churchill

Score: 6.2

Forsaken

Score: 6.2

Ironclad

Score: 6.1

Prisoner's Daughter

Score: 6.1

The Last Right

Score: 6.1

Shoot on Sight

Score: 6.1

The Corruptor

Score: 6.1

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

Score: 6.1

The Parenting

Score: 6.0

Desperate Measures

Score: 6.0

Strange But True

Score: 6.0

The Making of 'Rushmore'

Score: 6.0

Grushko

Score: 6.0

Secret Weapon

Score: 6.0

Food for Ravens

Score: 6.0

Believe

Score: 6.0

Witness Against Hitler

Score: 6.0

Coriolanus

Score: 5.9

Super Troopers 2

Score: 5.9

The Lost Language of Cranes

Score: 5.9

Blood

Score: 5.9

The Campaign

Score: 5.8

Merchants of Venus

Score: 5.8

Morgan

Score: 5.8

The Veteran

Score: 5.8

Chain Reaction

Score: 5.8

Pixels

Score: 5.8

Running with Scissors

Score: 5.7

Florence Nightingale

Score: 5.7

The Ringer

Score: 5.7

Separation

Score: 5.7

Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster

Score: 5.6

Complicity

Score: 5.6

A Shot at Glory

Score: 5.6

The Affair of the Necklace

Score: 5.5

Blue/Orange

Score: 5.5

Six Characters in Search of An Author

Score: 5.5

The Glimmer Man

Score: 5.4

Prince of Jutland

Score: 5.4

The Minus Man

Score: 5.4

Poodle Springs

Score: 5.4

Tell-Tale

Score: 5.3

Bonnie

Score: 5.3

The Secret of the Nutcracker

Score: 5.3

Pretenders

Score: 5.2

Last Moment of Clarity

Score: 5.2

Exit Humanity

Score: 5.2

Quasi

Score: 5.2

Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story

Score: 5.0

Red Fox

Score: 5.0

Sharpe: The Legend

Score: 5.0

Mad About Mambo

Score: 5.0

As Good As Dead

Score: 5.0

The Anomaly

Score: 5.0

Sin

Score: 4.8

In Celebration

Score: 4.8

Strictly Sinatra

Score: 4.8

All at Sea

Score: 4.5

The Bay of Silence

Score: 4.4

Agent Crush

Score: 4.3

The Year of the Sex Olympics

Score: 4.3

Lawrence After Arabia

Score: 4.2

The Outsiders

Score: 4.0

Glenrothan

Score: 4.0

Blumenthal

Score: 4.0

The Key Man

Score: 3.7

Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun

Score: 3.0

Murder on the Moon

Score: 2.8

Danny Phantom: Reign Storm

Score: 0.0

Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction

Score: 0.0

AMR: Dying to Change the World

Score: 0.0

The Marbles

Score: 0.0

Super Troopers 3: Winter Soldiers

Score: 0.0

The History of the British Police Force

Score: 0.0

Macbeth

Score: 0.0

Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch

Score: 0.0

Old Pals

Score: 0.0

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

Score: 0.0

Killing Thyme

Score: 0.0

Dalhousie's Luck

Score: 0.0

Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People

Score: 0.0

Carry On Ken

Score: 0.0

Home Cooking

Score: 0.0

The Biographer

Score: 0.0

A Knight in Tarnished Armour

Score: 0.0

An Evening with Brian Cox

Score: 0.0

John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues

Score: 0.0

The Negotiator

Score: 0.0

The Cantor of St Thomas's

Score: 0.0

The Invention of Dr. Morel

Score: 0.0

Rat in the Skull

Score: 0.0

Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation

Score: 0.0

Scotland In A Day

Score: 0.0

Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh

Score: 0.0

Wittgenstein's Poker

Score: 0.0

Ooh the Banter!

Score: 0.0

The Planets

Score: 0.0

Bill Douglas: My Best Friend

Score: 0.0

The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'

Score: 0.0

The Glove

Score: 0.0

Shoot for the Sun

Score: 0.0

Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC

Score: 0.0

Murder by Numbers

Score: 0.0

A Modern Magician

Score: 0.0

Deceptions

Score: 0.0

Ukraine: Answering the Call

Score: 0.0

I Missed My Mother's Funeral

Score: 0.0

The Cutter

Score: 0.0

On Expenses

Score: 0.0

The Privilege

Score: 0.0

The Blasphemers' Banquet

Score: 0.0

Brian Cox's Jute Journey

Score: 0.0

Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy

Score: 0.0

An Interview with Brian Cox

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Unsinkable

Score: 10.0

Succession

Score: 8.3

Deadwood

Score: 8.1

Red Dwarf

Score: 8.1

The Simpsons

Score: 8.0

Good Omens

Score: 8.0

The Russell Howard Hour

Score: 8.0

Sharpe

Score: 8.0

Penny Dreadful

Score: 7.8

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Score: 7.8

Inspector Morse

Score: 7.8

Out

Score: 7.8

Medici: Masters of Florence

Score: 7.7

Frasier

Score: 7.7

Superman: The Animated Series

Score: 7.6

War and Peace

Score: 7.6

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Score: 7.5

Shetland

Score: 7.5

Kings

Score: 7.5

Top Gear

Score: 7.5

The Take

Score: 7.5

French & Saunders

Score: 7.5

Nuremberg

Score: 7.4

The Devil's Crown

Score: 7.3

The Game

Score: 7.3

Theatre 625

Score: 7.2

The Graham Norton Show

Score: 7.2

A Touch of Cloth

Score: 7.2

Have I Got News for You

Score: 7.1

Hammer House of Horror

Score: 7.1

007: Road to a Million

Score: 7.1

Longitude

Score: 7.0

Playhouse

Score: 7.0

VE Day 80

Score: 7.0

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

Score: 7.0

Blade Runner: Black Lotus

Score: 7.0

The Colbert Report

Score: 6.9

Minder

Score: 6.8

The Colour of Magic

Score: 6.7

The Great War: The People's Story

Score: 6.6

Manhunt

Score: 6.5

The Sinking of the Laconia

Score: 6.4

The Daily Show

Score: 6.4

Target

Score: 6.3

Play for Today

Score: 6.3

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

Score: 6.3

Bob Servant

Score: 6.3

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Score: 6.2

The Straits

Score: 6.2

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Score: 6.2

Carpool Karaoke: The Series

Score: 6.1

The Tony Danza Show

Score: 6.1

Real Time with Bill Maher

Score: 6.0

Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live

Score: 6.0

Performance

Score: 6.0

Perfect Scoundrels

Score: 6.0

The Big Battalions

Score: 6.0

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Score: 5.9

The Day of the Triffids

Score: 5.9

The Slap

Score: 5.9

Great Performances

Score: 5.8

Van der Valk

Score: 5.8

The Last Leg

Score: 5.7

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Score: 5.5

Unnatural Causes

Score: 5.5

Question Time

Score: 5.5

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Score: 5.4

Therese Raquin

Score: 5.3

The Jonathan Ross Show

Score: 5.3

Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius

Score: 5.3

The Jonathan Ross Show

Score: 5.3

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Score: 5.3

I, Caesar – The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

Score: 5.0

BBC Play of the Month

Score: 5.0

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

Score: 5.0

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Score: 4.6

The One Show

Score: 4.4

Richard & Judy

Score: 2.9

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Score: 2.7

Piers Morgan Uncensored

Score: 2.3

Churchill's People

Score: 1.0

House on the Hill

Score: 0.0

The Gamblers

Score: 0.0

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

Score: 0.0

Addicted to Pleasure

Score: 0.0

Made of Money with Brian Cox

Score: 0.0

Brian Cox's Russia

Score: 0.0

Tooned

Score: 0.0

Acting

Score: 0.0

One Life

Score: 0.0