Brian Cox

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Acting

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.

Filmography

• Super Troopers 3 (2026)
• The Sunrise File (2026)
• Glenrothan (2026)
• The Marbles (2025)
• Trick 'r Treat (2025)
• Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction (2025)
• Seven Jewish Children (2025)
• The Parenting (2025)
• AMR: Dying to Change the World (2025)
• The Electric State (2025)
• The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024)
• That Christmas (2024)
• Skelly (2024)
• Little Wing (2024)
• Bill Douglas: My Best Friend (2023)
• Prisoner's Daughter (2023)
• Mending the Line (2023)
• Quasi (2023)
• An Interview with Brian Cox (2023)
• Ooh the Banter! (2022)
• Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba (2022)
• Bonnie (2022)
• The Independent (2022)
• Ukraine: Answering the Call (2022)
• Separation (2021)
• Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story (2021)
• The Bay of Silence (2020)
• John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues (2020)
• Last Moment of Clarity (2020)
• Lawrence After Arabia (2020)
• The Last Right (2019)
• Strange but True (2019)
• Pretenders (2019)
• Remember Me (2019)
• Kubrick by Candlelight (2018)
• Widdershins (2018)
• Super Troopers 2 (2018)
• The Etruscan Smile (2018)
• An Evening with Brian Cox (2017)
• Bob the Builder: Mega Machines (2017)
• Churchill (2017)
• Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation (2017)
• Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC (2016)
• The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
• Morgan (2016)
• The Carer (2016)
• Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light (2016)
• Killing Thyme (2015)
• Forsaken (2015)
• Pacific Warriors (2015)
• Pixels (2015)
• Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace (2015)
• The Gospel of John (2014)
• Scotland In A Day (2014)
• The Anomaly (2014)
• Her (2013)
• An Adventure in Space and Time (2013)
• The Curse of Edgar (2013)
• Anna (2013)
• Believe (2013)
• Blumenthal (2013)
• RED 2 (2013)
• Blood (2012)
• The Campaign (2012)
• All at Sea (2012)
• I Missed My Mother's Funeral (2012)
• Exit Humanity (2011)
• Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster (2011)
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
• The Veteran (2011)
• Ironclad (2011)
• The Key Man (2011)
• Coriolanus (2011)
• RED (2010)
• On Expenses (2010)
• As Good As Dead (2010)
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
• Brian Cox's Jute Journey (2009)
• The Good Heart (2009)
• Tell-Tale (2009)
• Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword (2009)
• Red (2008)
• The Escapist (2008)
• Agent Crush (2008)
• The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1 (2008)
• The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2 (2008)
• The Water Horse (2007)
• The Secret of the Nutcracker (2007)
• Shoot on Sight (2007)
• Battle for Terra (2007)
• The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
• A Woman in Winter (2007)
• Zodiac (2007)
• Running with Scissors (2006)
• The Outsiders (2006)
• The Flying Scotsman (2006)
• Carry On Ken (2006)
• The Ringer (2005)
• Match Point (2005)
• The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle (2005)
• Red Eye (2005)
• Hitler in Colour (2005)
• Blue/Orange (2005)
• Japan's War in Colour (2005)
• Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man? (2004)
• Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)
• The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
• Troy (2004)
• Murder by Numbers (2004)
• The Reckoning (2004)
• The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2 (2003)
• The Evolution of an American Filmmaker (2003)
• X2 (2003)
• Sin (2003)
• 25th Hour (2002)
• Adaptation. (2002)
• Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World (2002)
• The Ring (2002)
• The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)
• The Biographer (2002)
• The Bourne Identity (2002)
• Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch (2002)
• The Rookie (2002)
• Bug (2002)
• Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh (2002)
• Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon (2002)
• The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
• L.I.E. (2001)
• Strictly Sinatra (2001)
• Super Troopers (2001)
• Inside 'Manhunter' (2001)
• Saltwater (2000)
• Complicity (2000)
• A Shot at Glory (2000)
• Mad About Mambo (2000)
• The Invention of Dr. Morel (2000)
• The Making of 'Rushmore' (2000)
• Longitude (2000)
• The History of the British Police Force (1999)
• The Minus Man (1999)
• For Love of the Game (1999)
• The Corruptor (1999)
• Rushmore (1998)
• Poodle Springs (1998)
• Battle of the Clans (1998)
• Merchants of Venus (1998)
• Desperate Measures (1998)
• The Boxer (1997)
• Food for Ravens (1997)
• Sharpe: The Legend (1997)
• Kiss the Girls (1997)
• The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
• The Glimmer Man (1996)
• Chain Reaction (1996)
• Witness Against Hitler (1996)
• Braveheart (1995)
• Rob Roy (1995)
• The Maltese Double Cross (1994)
• The Negotiator (1994)
• Grushko (1994)
• Prince of Jutland (1994)
• Iron Will (1994)
• Sharpe's Eagle (1993)
• Sharpe's Rifles (1993)
• Six Characters in Search of An Author (1992)
• The Cutter (1992)
• The Lost Language of Cranes (1992)
• Deceptions (1992)
• Red Fox (1991)
• Hidden Agenda (1990)
• The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' (1990)
• Secret Weapon (1990)
• Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy (1989)
• The Blasphemers' Banquet (1989)
• Murder on the Moon (1989)
• Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (1988)
• Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun (1988)
• Shoot for the Sun (1987)
• Rat in the Skull (1987)
• Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People (1987)
• Home Cooking (1986)
• Manhunter (1986)
• Florence Nightingale (1985)
• The Cantor of St Thomas's (1985)
• Pope John Paul II (1984)
• King Lear (1983)
• A Cotswold Death (1982)
• The Privilege (1982)
• Dalhousie's Luck (1980)
• Clay, Smeddum and Greenden (1976)
• In Celebration (1975)
• The Changeling (1974)
• Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
• The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968)
• A Knight in Tarnished Armour (1965)
• Old Pals
• The Planets
• A Modern Magician
• Wittgenstein's Poker
• The Glove
• Super Troopers 4
• Just Dandy