Brian Cox
Birthdate
June 1, 1946 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Dundee, Scotland, UK
Known For
Acting
Details
Birthdate
June 1, 1946 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Dundee, Scotland, UK
Known For
Acting
Biography
Brian Denis Cox CBE (born 1 June 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.
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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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Brian Cox's LGBTQ+ Titles
L.I.E.
Big John Harrigan
The Lost Language of Cranes
Owen Benjamin
Acting (267)
Have I Got a Bit More News for You as Himself - Panellist (1 episode)
Amol Rajan Interviews as Self - Interviewed Guest (1 episode)
The Planets
The Parenting
A Modern Magician as The Voice
The Glove
Wittgenstein's Poker as Bertrand Russell (voice)
Glenrothan as Sandy
2025
The Electric State as Popfly (voice)
2024
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
2024
That Christmas as Santa (voice)
2024
Unsinkable as Robert Dodds (1 episode)
2024
Skelly as Grandpa
2024
Little Wing as Jaan Vari
2023
007: Road to a Million as The Controller (8 episodes)
2023
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius as Self (3 episodes)
2023
Made of Money with Brian Cox (2 episodes)
2023
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend as Narrator (voice)
2023
Prisoner's Daughter as Max
2023
Mending the Line as Ike Fletcher
2023
Quasi as Narrator (voice)
2023
An Interview with Brian Cox as Himself
2022
Ooh the Banter! as Self (archive footage)
2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
2022
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live as Presenter (2 episodes)
2022
Bonnie as Self
2022
The Independent as Nick Booker
2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – Actor (6 episodes)
2022
Ukraine: Answering the Call as Self
2022
Piers Morgan Uncensored as Self (2 episodes)
2021
Blade Runner: Black Lotus as Niander Wallace Sr. (voice) (5 episodes)
2021
Separation as Rivers
2021
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story as Narrator (voice)
2020
The Bay of Silence as Milton
2020
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues as John Rebus
2020
Last Moment of Clarity as Gilles
2020
Lawrence After Arabia as Father (Voice)
2019
The Last Right as Father Reilly
2019
Strange but True as Bill
2019
Pretenders as Henry
2019
Remember Me as Shane
2019
Good Omens as Death (voice) (6 episodes)
2018
Kubrick by Candlelight as The Narrator
2018
Widdershins as voice
2018
Succession as Logan Roy (39 episodes)
2018
Super Troopers 2 as John O'Hagen
2018
The Etruscan Smile as Rory MacNeil
2017
The Russell Howard Hour as Self (1 episode)
2017
Carpool Karaoke: The Series as Self (1 episode)
2017
An Evening with Brian Cox as Himself
2017
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie as Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice)
2017
Churchill as Winston Churchill
2017
Brian Cox's Russia as Host (2 episodes)
2017
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation as Narrator
2016
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC as Self
2016
The Autopsy of Jane Doe as Tommy Tilden
2016
Medici: Masters of Florence as Bernardo Guadagni (8 episodes)
2016
Morgan as Jim Bryce
2016
The Carer as Sir Michael
2016
War and Peace as Mikhail Kutuzov (6 episodes)
2015
Forsaken as James McCurdy
2015
Pacific Warriors as Narrator
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (1 episode)
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self (3 episodes)
2015
Pixels as Admiral Porter
2015
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
2015
The Slap as Manolis (8 episodes)
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self (1 episode)
2014
The Gospel of John as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
2014
The Game as Daddy (6 episodes)
2014
Scotland In A Day
2014
The Great War: The People's Story as Rev. Andrew Clark (1 episode)
2014
The Anomaly as Dr. Langham
2014
Penny Dreadful as Jared Talbot (2 episodes)
2014
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as God (1 episode)
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self (2 episodes)
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self (2 episodes)
2013
Her as Alan Watts (voice)
2013
An Adventure in Space and Time as Sydney Newman
2013
The Curse of Edgar as Edgar Hoover
2013
Anna as Sebastian
2013
Believe as Matt Busby
2013
Blumenthal as Harold Blumenthal
2013
RED 2 as Ivan
2013
Shetland as Magnus Bain (2 episodes)
2013
The Last Leg as Self (1 episode)
2013
Bob Servant as Bob Servant (9 episodes)
2012
Addicted to Pleasure as Self - Host (4 episodes)
2012
Blood as Lenny Fairburn
2012
A Touch of Cloth
2012
A Touch of Cloth as Bill Ball (1 episode)
2012
The Campaign as Raymond
2012
Tooned as The Mechanic (8 episodes)
2012
Wide Blue Yonder as Wally
2012
The Straits as Harry Montebello (10 episodes)
2012
I Missed My Mother's Funeral as Old Man
2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant (1 episode)
2011
Exit Humanity as Malcolm Young (voice)
2011
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster as Glover
2011
The Jonathan Ross Show as Self (1 episode)
2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes as John Landon
2011
The Veteran as Gerry
2011
Ironclad as Albany
2011
The Key Man as Irving
2011
Coriolanus as Menenius
2011
The Sinking of the Laconia as Captain Sharp (2 episodes)
2010
RED as Ivan Simanov
2010
On Expenses
2010
As Good As Dead as Reverend Kalahan
2009
The Day of the Triffids as Dennis Masen (2 episodes)
2009
Fantastic Mr. Fox as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
2009
Brian Cox's Jute Journey as Self
2009
The Good Heart as Jacques
2009
The Take as Ozzy (4 episodes)
2009
Tell-Tale as Van Doren
2009
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword as Green Dragon (voice)
2008
Shoot on Sight as Daniel Tennant
2008
Red as Avery Ludlow
2008
The Escapist as Frank Perry
2008
The Colour of Magic as Narrator (2 episodes)
2008
Agent Crush as Spanners (voice)
2007
The Water Horse as Old Angus
2007
The Secret of the Nutcracker as Drosselmeyer
2007
Trick 'r Treat as Mr. Kreeg
2007
Battle for Terra as General Hemmer (voice)
2007
A Woman in Winter as Dr. Hunt
2007
Zodiac as Melvin Belli
2007
The Graham Norton Show as Self (1 episode)
2006
Running with Scissors as Dr. Finch
2006
The Outsiders as Gabriel
2006
The Flying Scotsman as Douglas Baxter
2006
The One Show as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2006
Carry on Ken as Self
2005
The Ringer as Gary Barker
2005
Match Point as Alec Hewett
2005
The Colbert Report (1 episode)
2005
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle as Joseph Bell
2005
Red Eye as Joe Reisert
2005
Hitler in Colour as Narrator
2005
Doctor Who as Sydney Newman (1 episode)
2005
Blue/Orange as Dr. Robert Smith
2005
Japan's War In Colour as Narrator
2004
Lost (1 episode)
2004
The Tony Danza Show as Self (1 episode)
2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
2004
The Bourne Supremacy as Ward Abbott
2004
Troy as King Agamemnon
2004
Deadwood as Jack Langrishe (9 episodes)
2004
Murder by Numbers as Self
2004
The Reckoning as Tobias
2003
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2
2003
One Life (1 episode)
2003
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker as Self
2003
X2 as William Stryker
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher as Self (1 episode)
2003
Sin as Captain Oakes
2002
25th Hour as James Brogan
2002
Adaptation. as Robert McKee
2002
Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World as Narrator
2002
Top Gear as Self (2 episodes)
2002
The Ring as Richard Morgan
2002
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2002
The Biographer as Michael O'Mara
2002
The Bourne Identity as Ward Abbott
2002
The Rookie as Jim Morris Sr.
2002
Bug as Cyr
2002
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh as Narrator
2002
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon as Narrator
2001
The Affair of the Necklace as Minister Breteuil
2001
Richard & Judy as Self (2 episodes)
2001
L.I.E. as Big John Harrigan
2001
Strictly Sinatra as Chisolm
2001
Super Troopers as John O'Hagen
2001
Inside 'Manhunter' as Himself
2000
Aqua Teen Hunger Force as Anubis (voice) (1 episode)
2000
Saltwater as George Beneventi
2000
Nuremberg as Herman Wilhelm Goering (2 episodes)
2000
Complicity as Inspector McDunn
2000
A Shot at Glory as Martin Smith
2000
Mad About Mambo as Sidney McLoughlin
2000
The Invention of Dr. Morel as Dr. Morel
2000
The Making of 'Rushmore' as Self
2000
Longitude as Lord Morton (2 episodes)
2000
Longitude as Lord Morton
1999
For Love of the Game as Gary Wheeler
1999
The Corruptor as Sean Wallace
1999
The Minus Man as Doug
1998
Rushmore as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
1998
Poodle Springs as Clayton Blackstone
1998
Merchants of Venus as Uncle Vladimir
1998
Desperate Measures as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
1997
The Boxer as Joe Hamill
1997
Food for Ravens as Aneurin Bevan
1997
Sharpe: The Legend as Hogan
1997
Kiss the Girls as Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D.
1996
The Long Kiss Goodnight as Dr. Nathan Waldman
1996
The Glimmer Man as Mr. Smith
1996
Superman: The Animated Series as Dr. Earl Garver (voice) (1 episode)
1996
Chain Reaction as Lyman Earl Collier
1996
The Daily Show as Self (1 episode)
1996
Witness Against Hitler as Judge Freisler
1995
Braveheart as Argyle Wallace
1995
Rob Roy as Killearn
1994
The Maltese Double Cross as Narrator (voice)
1994
The Negotiator as Charlie King
1994
Grushko as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
1994
Royal Deceit as Aethelwine
1994
Iron Will as Angus McTeague
1993
Frasier as Harry Moon (2 episodes)
1993
Sharpe's Eagle as Major Michael Hogan
1993
Sharpe as Major Hogan (2 episodes)
1993
Sharpe's Rifles as Major Michael Hogan
1992
Six Characters in Search of An Author as The Director
1992
The Big Battalions as Edward Hoyland (5 episodes)
1992
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Macbeth (voice) (1 episode)
1992
The Cutter
1992
The Lost Language of Cranes as Owen Benjamin
1992
The Cloning of Joanna May as Carl May
1992
Deceptions as Carlton Heard
1991
Red Fox as Geoffrey Harrison
1991
Performance as The Director (1 episode)
1990
Hidden Agenda as Peter Kerrigan
1990
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' as self
1990
Perfect Scoundrels as Father Amedy (1 episode)
1990
Secret Weapon as Andrew Neil
1989
The Simpsons as Kostas Becker (voice) (2 episodes)
1989
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy as Self
1989
The Blasphemers' Banquet as Rev. Wallace (voice)
1989
Murder on the Moon as Voronov
1988
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky as Voiceover Narrator
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1988
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun as Jack Purves
1988
Red Dwarf as The King (1 episode)
1988
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers as Henrik Ibsen (voice) (1 episode)
1987
Acting (1 episode)
1987
Shoot for the Sun as Dunny
1987
French & Saunders as King Lear (1 episode)
1987
Inspector Morse as Michael Steppings (1 episode)
1987
Rat in the Skull as Detective Inspector Nelson
1987
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People as Narrator
1986
Unnatural Causes as Vic (1 episode)
1986
Home Cooking as Vic
1986
Manhunter as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
1985
Florence Nightingale as Dr. McGregor
1985
The Cantor of St Thomas's as Johann Sebastian Bach
1984
Pope John Paul II as Father Góra
1983
King Lear as Burgundy
1982
A Cotswold Death as Dr. Gillespie
1982
The Privilege as Young Laird
1980
Hammer House of Horror as Chuck (1 episode)
1980
Dalhousie's Luck as Dalhousie
1980
Therese Raquin as Laurent (3 episodes)
1979
Minder as Frank (1 episode)
1979
Question Time as Self - Panellist (5 episodes)
1978
Out as McGrath (3 episodes)
1978
The Devil's Crown as Henry II of England (13 episodes)
1976
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden as George Simpson
1975
In Celebration as Steven Shaw
1974
The Changeling as Alsemero
1972
Van der Valk as Stefan Szabo (1 episode)
1971
Nicholas and Alexandra as Trotsky
1971
Great Performances as Self (1 episode)
1970
Play for Today as Dr. Gillespie (1 episode)
1970
Manhunt as Anton (3 episodes)
1968
The Year of the Sex Olympics as Lasar Opie
1965
BBC Play of the Month as Alsemero (1 episode)
1965
A Knight in Tarnished Armour as Nelson
Directing (2)
Glenrothan
• Director
1997
Oz (1 episode)
• Director (1 episode)
Production (5)
Seven Jewish Children
• Executive Producer
Glenrothan
• Producer
2024
Little Wing
• Executive Producer
2008
Red
• Associate Producer
2008
The Escapist
• Executive Producer