
Brian Cox
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Biography
Brian Denis Cox CBE (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.
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Known For

Doctor Who

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Daily Show

Question Time

Frasier

The Simpsons

Late Night with Seth Meyers

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Real Time with Bill Maher

BBC Play of the Month

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

The One Show

The Jonathan Ross Show

The Colbert Report

Carpool Karaoke: The Series

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

Good Omens

The Graham Norton Show

Top Gear

Performance

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Superman: The Animated Series

Blade Runner: Black Lotus

Penny Dreadful

Deadwood

One Life

Inspector Morse

Lost

French & Saunders

Shetland

X-Men: Days of Future Past

The Bourne Ultimatum

Her

Medici: Masters of Florence

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Sharpe

Braveheart

Sharpe: The Legend

War and Peace

The Great War: The People's Story

The Electric State

The Corruptor

The Campaign

RED 2

Kiss the Girls

Coriolanus

Zodiac

Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"

RED

Pixels

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Poodle Springs

Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster

The Long Kiss Goodnight

The Rookie

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

The Bourne Identity

Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius

Succession

Super Troopers

The Game

Troy

An Adventure in Space and Time

Match Point

The Ring

Succession

The Day of the Triffids

Manhunter

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

X2

The Bourne Supremacy

Red Eye

The Changeling

Sin

Iron Will

Little Wing

The Bay of Silence

Desperate Measures

The Blasphemers' Banquet

The Year of the Sex Olympics

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

The Independent

Blue/Orange

Trick 'r Treat

The Slap

Food for Ravens

Hitler in Colour

That Christmas

Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy

Grushko

The Trials of Henry Kissinger

The Lost Language of Cranes

Separation

Addicted to Pleasure

The Devil's Crown

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

007: Road to a Million
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