Brian Cox
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1946-06-01
Place of Birth
Dundee, Scotland, UK
Brian Cox
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.
Also Known For
Braveheart
May 24, 1995
The Ring
Oct 18, 2002
25th Hour
Dec 19, 2002
Troy
May 13, 2004
Poodle Springs
Jul 25, 1998
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Oct 14, 2009
Zodiac
Mar 02, 2007
The Bourne Identity
Jun 14, 2002
The Bourne Supremacy
Jul 23, 2004
The Independent
Nov 02, 2022
Adaptation.
Dec 06, 2002
The Good Heart
Sep 11, 2009
Rushmore
Dec 11, 1998
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Oct 11, 1996
The Minus Man
Sep 24, 1999
Trick 'r Treat
Dec 09, 2007
Running with Scissors
Oct 27, 2006
Manhunter
Aug 14, 1986
Red Eye
Aug 10, 2005
Rob Roy
Apr 13, 1995
Iron Will
Jan 14, 1994
Complicity
May 06, 2000
Chain Reaction
Aug 02, 1996
Bug
Feb 28, 2002
Kiss the Girls
Sep 29, 1997
The Corruptor
Mar 12, 1999
Desperate Measures
Jan 30, 1998
The Reckoning
Feb 26, 2004
The Ringer
Dec 23, 2005
Red
Aug 08, 2008
Tell-Tale
Apr 24, 2009
The Glimmer Man
Oct 04, 1996
As Good As Dead
Jan 25, 2010
X2
Apr 27, 2003
The Rookie
Mar 25, 2002
The Escapist
Jun 20, 2008
Mad About Mambo
Apr 04, 2000
The Flying Scotsman
Aug 16, 2006
An Interview with Brian Cox
Apr 11, 2023
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
Dec 07, 1989
Ironclad
Mar 03, 2011
Nicholas and Alexandra
Nov 29, 1971
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
Apr 07, 2009
Battle for Terra
Sep 06, 2007
RED
Oct 13, 2010
The Boxer
Dec 31, 1997
Quasi
Apr 20, 2023
Hidden Agenda
Nov 21, 1990
King Lear
Apr 03, 1983
Super Troopers
Feb 15, 2001
Japan's War in Colour
Jan 17, 2005
The Maltese Double Cross
Nov 16, 1994
L.I.E.
Sep 07, 2001
Prince of Jutland
Feb 23, 1994
Longitude
Jan 02, 2000
Sharpe's Eagle
May 12, 1993
The Affair of the Necklace
Nov 30, 2001
Sharpe's Rifles
May 05, 1993
The Veteran
Apr 29, 2011
The Secret of the Nutcracker
Dec 23, 2007
The Water Horse
Dec 25, 2007
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Sep 23, 1988
The Lost Language of Cranes
Feb 09, 1992
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
Oct 05, 2009
The Blasphemers' Banquet
Jul 31, 1989
The Campaign
Aug 09, 2012
Coriolanus
Feb 14, 2011
The Key Man
Feb 18, 2011
The Parenting
Mar 12, 2025
A Woman in Winter
Apr 09, 2007
Her
Dec 18, 2013
The Privilege
Jan 01, 1982
Strictly Sinatra
Jun 29, 2001
The Year of the Sex Olympics
Jul 29, 1968
Blood
Oct 09, 2012
In Celebration
Mar 17, 1975
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Nov 26, 2022
Witness Against Hitler
Mar 10, 1996
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
May 20, 2003
The Cloning of Joanna May
Jan 16, 1992
Little Wing
Mar 13, 2024
An Adventure in Space and Time
Nov 21, 2013
On Expenses
Feb 23, 2010
The Cutter
Aug 10, 1992
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
Jan 01, 2012
Six Characters in Search of An Author
Dec 12, 1992
The Curse of Edgar
Oct 27, 2013
Hitler in Colour
Apr 30, 2005
Anna
Oct 13, 2013
Inside 'Manhunter'
Feb 13, 2001
Believe
Oct 04, 2013
Blumenthal
Aug 03, 2013
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Dec 05, 2024
RED 2
Jul 18, 2013
Match Point
Oct 26, 2005
The Changeling
Jan 20, 1974
Ukraine: Answering the Call
Jul 03, 2022
Deceptions
Jan 01, 1992
Pope John Paul II
Apr 22, 1984
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Aug 03, 2011
The Electric State
Mar 07, 2025
A Modern Magician
The Anomaly
Jun 19, 2014
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Sep 29, 2002
The Gospel of John
Dec 01, 2014
Murder by Numbers
Mar 16, 2004
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
Dec 23, 2016
Shoot for the Sun
Mar 16, 1987
The Glove
Bonnie
Nov 12, 2022
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
May 01, 1990
Pixels
Jul 16, 2015
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
May 15, 1988
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
Sep 05, 2023
Forsaken
Sep 16, 2015
Exit Humanity
Oct 16, 2011
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
Sep 10, 2011
That Christmas
Nov 27, 2024
The Planets
Ooh the Banter!
Dec 31, 2022
Agent Crush
Jan 01, 2008
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
Feb 05, 2002
Shoot on Sight
Dec 15, 2007
Skelly
May 07, 2024
Saltwater
Sep 29, 2000
Wittgenstein's Poker
Sharpe: The Legend
Oct 13, 1997
Churchill
May 25, 2017
The Carer
Aug 05, 2016
Morgan
Sep 01, 2016
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Dec 21, 2016
For Love of the Game
Sep 17, 1999
Murder on the Moon
May 09, 1989
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
Feb 12, 2002
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
Nov 25, 2003
Scotland In A Day
Sep 18, 2014
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Sep 08, 2005
Glenrothan
Apr 17, 2026
Pretenders
Sep 27, 2019
Red Fox
Dec 08, 1991
A Shot at Glory
May 03, 2000
Food for Ravens
Nov 11, 1997
Blue/Orange
Feb 23, 2005
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
Feb 18, 2017
Rat in the Skull
Jan 01, 1987
Pacific Warriors
Sep 10, 2015
Merchants of Venus
Mar 01, 1998
Super Troopers 2
Apr 19, 2018
Sin
Jan 01, 2003
Strange but True
Oct 17, 2019
Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World
Nov 19, 2002
Florence Nightingale
Apr 07, 1985
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
May 27, 2017
The Etruscan Smile
Apr 12, 2018
Kubrick by Candlelight
Nov 23, 2018
The Invention of Dr. Morel
Mar 16, 2000
Remember Me
Aug 02, 2019
Last Moment of Clarity
May 19, 2020
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Sep 04, 2004
The Cantor of St Thomas's
Apr 07, 1985
The Bay of Silence
Aug 20, 2020
All at Sea
May 25, 2012
Secret Weapon
Mar 19, 1990
The Last Right
Dec 06, 2019
Lawrence After Arabia
May 19, 2020
Grushko
Mar 24, 1994
The Negotiator
May 31, 1994
Widdershins
Jun 27, 2018
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
Jul 01, 2015
The Outsiders
Oct 03, 2006
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
May 27, 2020
An Evening with Brian Cox
Jul 26, 2017
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
Jul 07, 1965
A Cotswold Death
Jan 12, 1982
The Biographer
Sep 01, 2002
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
Feb 24, 1976
Separation
Apr 30, 2021
Home Cooking
Nov 08, 1986
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
Apr 23, 2021
Carry On Ken
Jan 01, 2006
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
Jan 01, 1987
Mending the Line
Jun 09, 2023
Prisoner's Daughter
Jun 30, 2023
Dalhousie's Luck
Aug 03, 1980
The Making of 'Rushmore'
Jan 25, 2000
Killing Thyme
Nov 17, 2015
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Jun 13, 2016
Old Pals
The Bourne Ultimatum
Aug 03, 2007
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
Apr 01, 2002
Macbeth
Nov 23, 1992
The History of the British Police Force
Sep 27, 1999
Super Troopers 3: Winter Soldiers
Aug 06, 2026
The Marbles
Nov 07, 2025
AMR: Dying to Change the World
Mar 11, 2025
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
Sep 22, 2025
Danny Phantom: Reign Storm
Jul 29, 2005
Battle of the Clans
Jul 12, 1998
French & Saunders
Mar 09, 1987
Deadwood
Mar 21, 2004
The Tony Danza Show
Sep 13, 2004
The One Show
Aug 14, 2006
Question Time
Sep 25, 1979
Minder
Oct 29, 1979
Inspector Morse
Jan 06, 1987
Richard & Judy
Nov 26, 2001
Superman: The Animated Series
Sep 06, 1996
The Colbert Report
Oct 17, 2005
The Big Battalions
Nov 19, 1992
Nuremberg
Jul 16, 2000
Red Dwarf
Feb 15, 1988
Van der Valk
Sep 13, 1972
One Life
Sep 24, 2003
The Jonathan Ross Show
Sep 03, 2011
The Take
Jun 17, 2009
Acting
Aug 28, 1987
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
Aug 08, 2017
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
Hammer House of Horror
Sep 13, 1980
The Straits
Feb 02, 2012
Perfect Scoundrels
Apr 22, 1990
Unnatural Causes
Nov 08, 1986
Performance
Oct 05, 1991
Shetland
Mar 10, 2013
The Colour of Magic
Mar 23, 2008
A Touch of Cloth
Aug 26, 2012
Sharpe
May 05, 1993
The Slap
Feb 12, 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
The Game
Nov 05, 2014
Tooned
Jul 08, 2012
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live
Nov 17, 2022
The Simpsons
Dec 17, 1989
War and Peace
Jan 03, 2016
Penny Dreadful
May 11, 2014
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
Top Gear
Oct 20, 2002
Frasier
Sep 16, 1993
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
Nov 14, 2021
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
007: Road to a Million
Nov 10, 2023
Therese Raquin
Mar 12, 1980
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
Bob Servant
Jan 23, 2013
The Great War: The People's Story
Aug 10, 2014
Brian Cox's Russia
Apr 18, 2017
The Sinking of the Laconia
Jan 06, 2011
Piers Morgan Uncensored
Apr 25, 2022
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Feb 17, 2014
Succession
Jun 03, 2018
The Day of the Triffids
Dec 28, 2009
Made of Money with Brian Cox
Sep 23, 2023
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Dec 21, 2014
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Dec 30, 2000
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Apr 27, 2014
The Russell Howard Hour
Sep 21, 2017
The Daily Show
Jul 22, 1996
Medici: Masters of Florence
Oct 18, 2016
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Oct 24, 2011
Manhunt
Jan 02, 1970
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Sep 04, 2022
Addicted to Pleasure
Nov 25, 2012
Real Time with Bill Maher
Feb 21, 2003
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Nov 09, 1992
Play for Today
Oct 15, 1970
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Jan 10, 1988
Unsinkable
Jul 10, 2024
Amol Rajan Interviews
Jul 12, 2021
BBC Play of the Month
Oct 19, 1965
Great Performances
Jan 28, 1971
Out
Jul 24, 1978
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
Nov 08, 2023
The Last Leg
Jan 25, 2013
The Jonathan Ross Show
Sep 03, 2011
Good Omens
May 31, 2019
VE Day 80
May 05, 2025
Playhouse
Mar 13, 1974
The Gamblers
Sep 26, 1967
Target
Sep 09, 1977
Longitude
Jan 02, 2000
The Devil's Crown
Apr 30, 1978
House on the Hill
Jul 04, 1981
Have I Got News for You
Sep 28, 1990
Theatre 625
May 03, 1964
Churchill's People
Dec 30, 1974
Kings
Mar 15, 2009
I, Caesar – The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
Mar 03, 1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jan 26, 2003