Brian Cox
Known for Acting · 293 credits
- Born
- 1946-06-01 (age 80)
- Place of birth
- Dundee, Scotland, UK
- Also known as
- Brian Denis Cox · Brian Cox CBE · برایان کاکس
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
TV Shows (95)
The Simpsons
1989
as Kostas Becker (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
as Self
Frasier
1993
as Harry Moon
The Colbert Report
2005
Top Gear
2002
as Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
as God
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Guest
The One Show
2006
as Self - Guest
Play for Today
1970
as Dr. Gillespie
Great Performances
1971
as Self - Narration (voice)
Have I Got News for You
1990
as Self
Succession
2018
as Logan Roy
Minder
1979
as Frank
Shetland
2013
as Magnus Bain
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Good Omens
2019
as Death (voice)
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Alsemero
The Last Leg
2013
as Self
The Wednesday Play
1964
as Nelson
Deadwood
2004
as Jack Langrishe
Red Dwarf
1988
as The King
Playhouse
1974
as Dalhousie
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
as Himself - Panellist
Superman: The Animated Series
1996
as Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
Inspector Morse
1987
as Michael Steppings
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
2000
as Anubis (voice)
Richard & Judy
2001
as Self
Question Time
1979
as Self - Panellist
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
as Self / Self - Guest
The Tony Danza Show
2004
as Self
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Apeman
Theatre 625
1964
as Lasar Opie
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
as Self - Participant
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
as Self
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self – Actor / Self - Actor
Penny Dreadful
2014
as Jared Talbot
Dexter: Resurrection
2025
as New York Ripper
Medici: Masters of Florence
2016
as Bernardo Guadagni
Performance
1991
as The Director
Sharpe
1993
as Major Hogan
The Russell Howard Hour
2017
as Self
M.I. High
2007
as Voice of the Mastermind
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
2021
as Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
Van der Valk
1972
as Stefan Szabo
Remembers…
2022
Churchill's People
1974
as William Wallace
War and Peace
2016
as Mikhail Kutuzov
Kings
2009
as King Vesper Abaddon
The Slap
2015
as Manolis
French & Saunders
1987
as King Lear
The Colour of Magic
2008
as Narrator
Hammer House of Horror
1980
as Chuck
Target
1977
as Billy Voss
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
as Macbeth (voice)
Movies (198)
Troy
2004
as King Agamemnon
The Bourne Identity
2002
as Ward Abbott
Braveheart
1995
as Argyle Wallace
Zodiac
2007
as Melvin Belli
Her
2013
as Alan Watts (voice)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
as John Landon
Pixels
2015
as Admiral Porter
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007
as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016
as Tommy Tilden
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024
as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
RED
2010
as Ivan Simanov
The Bourne Supremacy
2004
as Ward Abbott
The Ring
2002
as Richard Morgan
The Electric State
2025
as Popfly (voice)
Match Point
2005
as Alec Hewett
RED 2
2013
as Ivan
Kiss the Girls
1997
as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
The Campaign
2012
as Raymond
The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996
as Dr. Nathan Waldman
Adaptation.
2002
as Robert McKee
25th Hour
2002
as James Brogan
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
as Trotsky
Trick 'r Treat
2007
as Mr. Kreeg
Red Eye
2005
as Joe Reisert
Rob Roy
1995
as Killearn
Morgan
2016
as Jim Bryce
Rushmore
1998
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
Chain Reaction
1996
as Lyman Earl Collier
Super Troopers
2001
as Captain O'Hagen
The Corruptor
1999
as Sean Wallace
The Water Horse
2007
as Old Angus
That Christmas
2024
as Santa (voice)
For Love of the Game
1999
as Gary Wheeler
Ironclad
2011
as Albany
Iron Will
1994
as Angus McTeague
Red
2008
as Avery Ludlow
Anna
2013
as Sebastian
Last Moment of Clarity
2020
as Gilles
Desperate Measures
1998
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
The Rookie
2002
as Jim Morris Sr.
Forsaken
2015
as James McCurdy
The Parenting
2025
as Frank
The Boxer
1997
as Joe Hamill
The Glimmer Man
1996
as Mr. Smith
Coriolanus
2011
as Menenius
Battle for Terra
2007
as General Hemmer (voice)
The Reckoning
2004
as Tobias
Separation
2021
as Rivers
The Veteran
2011
as Gerry
The Independent
2022
as Nick Booker
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
The Ringer
2005
as Gary Barker
Super Troopers 2
2018
as John O'Hagen
Glenrothan
2026
as Sandy
Churchill
2017
as Winston Churchill
Sin
2003
as Captain Oakes
The Escapist
2008
as Frank Perry
Strange but True
2019
as Bill
Saltwater
2000
as George Beneventi
Running with Scissors
2006
as Dr. Finch
On Expenses
2010
Prince of Jutland
1994
as Aethelwine
Prisoner's Daughter
2023
as Max
Quasi
2023
as Narrator (voice)
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005
as Joseph Bell
Bonnie
2022
as Self
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
2009
as Green Dragon (voice)
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
as Hogan
The Good Heart
2009
as Jacques
An Adventure in Space and Time
2013
as Sydney Newman
The Flying Scotsman
2006
as Douglas Baxter
Longitude
2000
as Lord Morton
The Affair of the Necklace
2001
as Minister Breteuil
Blood
2012
as Lenny Fairburn
The Minus Man
1999
as Doug
The Bay of Silence
2020
as Milton
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
2003
as Self
The Etruscan Smile
2018
as Rory MacNeil
Tell-Tale
2009
as Van Doren
Complicity
2000
as Inspector McDunn
The Anomaly
2014
as Dr. Langham
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
2011
as Glover
L.I.E.
2001
as Big John Harrigan
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
2017
as Conrad / Crunch (voice)
Mending the Line
2023
as Ike Fletcher
Little Wing
2024
as Jaan Vari
Super Troopers 3
2026
as Capt. John O’Hagan
Hidden Agenda
1990
as Peter Kerrigan
Pretenders
2019
as Henry
Remember Me
2019
as Shane
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
as Self
The Carer
2016
as Sir Michael
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988
as Jack Purves
Florence Nightingale
1985
as Dr. McGregor
As Good As Dead
2010
as Reverend Kalahan
Blumenthal
2013
as Harold Blumenthal
Poodle Springs
1998
as Clayton Blackstone
A Shot at Glory
2000
as Martin Smith
The Key Man
2011
as Irving
Witness Against Hitler
1996
as Judge Freisler
Believe
2013
as Matt Busby
Pope John Paul II
1984
as Father Góra
Shoot on Sight
2007
as Daniel Tennant
The Last Right
2019
as Father Reilly
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003
as Self
Exit Humanity
2011
as Malcolm Young (voice)
Sharpe's Eagle
1993
as Major Michael Hogan
Strictly Sinatra
2001
as Chisolm
The Year of the Sex Olympics
1968
as Lasar Opie
Sharpe's Rifles
1993
as Major Michael Hogan
Skelly
2024
as Grandpa
The Changeling
1974
as Alsemero
Bug
2002
as Cyr
Red Fox
1991
as Geoffrey Harrison
Carry On Ken
2006
as Self
Merchants of Venus
1998
as Uncle Vladimir
The Lost Language of Cranes
1992
as Owen Benjamin
Home Cooking
1986
as Vic
The Marbles
2025
as Self - Interviewee
About Brian Cox
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 Shakespear… With 293 credits spanning from 1964 to 2026, Brian Cox has appeared in 198 films and 95 TV shows.
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Most Popular Brian Cox Movies
- Troy (2004) — as King Agamemnon
- The Bourne Identity (2002) — as Ward Abbott
- Braveheart (1995) — as Argyle Wallace
- Zodiac (2007) — as Melvin Belli
- Her (2013) — as Alan Watts (voice)
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