Bryan Cranston
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1956-03-07
Place of Birth
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Bryan Cranston
Biography
Bryan Lee Cranston (born March 7, 1956) is an American actor. After taking minor roles in television, he established himself as a leading actor in both comedic and dramatic works on stage and screen. He has received several accolades, including six Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Tony Awards, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. Cranston first gained prominence playing Hal in the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (2000–2006), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He gained stardom for his dramatic leading role playing Walter White in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013), for which he won the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times (2008, 2009, 2010, and 2014). He was Emmy-nominated for All the Way (2016) and Curb Your Enthusiasm (2018). Cranston co-developed and appeared in the crime drama series Sneaky Pete (2015–2019) and starred in the drama series Your Honor (2020–2023). On stage, he earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for portraying President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Broadway play All the Way (2014), a role he reprised in the 2016 HBO film. He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and his second Tony Award for portraying Howard Beale in the play Network on the West End and Broadway, respectively. Cranston earned nominations for the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor for portraying Dalton Trumbo in the Hollywood blacklist drama Trumbo (2015). Other notable films include Saving Private Ryan (1998), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Drive (2011), Contagion (2011), Argo (2012), Godzilla (2014), The Infiltrator (2016), The Upside (2017), Last Flag Flying (2017), and Asteroid City (2023). He has also voiced roles in Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012), Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016), Isle of Dogs (2018), and Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024).
Also Known For
Clean Slate
May 06, 1994
An Audience with Adele
Nov 21, 2021
Total Recall
Aug 02, 2012
Drive
Sep 15, 2011
Hard Four
Nov 01, 2007
Contagion
Sep 08, 2011
Everything's Going to Be Great
Jun 20, 2025
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
Sep 23, 2005
Holiday Reunion
Nov 23, 2003
John Carter
Mar 07, 2012
Argo
Oct 11, 2012
Batman: Year One
Sep 27, 2011
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
Jun 06, 2012
The Lincoln Lawyer
Mar 17, 2011
Rock of Ages
Jun 13, 2012
Red Tails
Jan 19, 2012
Detachment
Apr 24, 2011
Larry Crowne
Jun 30, 2011
'Twas the Night
Dec 07, 2001
Godzilla
May 14, 2014
Sell/Buy/Date
Oct 14, 2022
Barely Legal Pawn
Aug 19, 2014
Get a Job
Mar 17, 2016
Cold Comes the Night
Sep 20, 2013
Writer's Block
Nov 01, 2013
No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
Nov 26, 2013
Malcolm in the Middle 2020 Zoom Reunion
Jul 09, 2020
Experience Yosemite
Jun 04, 2022
Trumbo
Oct 27, 2015
Kung Fu Panda 4
Mar 02, 2024
Strategic Command
Jan 06, 1997
Little Miss Sunshine
Jul 26, 2006
The Concert for Valor
Nov 11, 2014
Kung Fu Panda 3
Jan 23, 2016
That Thing You Do!
Oct 04, 1996
Seth Rogen Is the Worst Person in the World
Apr 10, 2013
The Infiltrator
Jul 13, 2016
In Dubious Battle
Oct 08, 2016
To Race the Wind
Mar 12, 1980
All the Way
May 23, 2016
Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés
Mar 18, 2024
Armitage III: Poly Matrix
Jun 25, 1996
Why Him?
Dec 22, 2016
David Blaine: Real or Magic
Nov 19, 2013
Wakefield
May 19, 2017
Dead Silence
Aug 26, 1991
Grendel
The Disaster Artist
Mar 12, 2017
Isle of Dogs
Mar 23, 2018
Power Rangers
Mar 23, 2017
Tangles
Last Flag Flying
Nov 03, 2017
The Upside
Jan 10, 2019
Saving Private Ryan
Jul 24, 1998
Sense of Smell
Jun 27, 2014
Dead Space
Oct 21, 1991
Love Ranch
Jun 30, 2010
Terror Tract
Oct 18, 2000
Seeing Other People
May 07, 2004
Leave
May 03, 2011
Erotique
May 14, 1994
The Companion
Oct 14, 1994
Illusion
Oct 25, 2004
Time Under Fire
Nov 12, 1997
The Big Turnaround
Jan 01, 1988
Street Corner Justice
Sep 27, 1996
The Santa Claus Brothers
Jul 12, 2002
The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime
Sep 18, 1996
Corporate Affairs
Oct 05, 1990
The One and Only Ivan
Aug 21, 2020
Every Act of Life
Apr 23, 2018
The Power of the Present
Jun 27, 2017
Last Chance
Jan 01, 1999
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Oct 11, 2019
Übermansion
Aug 25, 2013
The Words That Built America
Jul 04, 2017
Pink Elephants
Nov 15, 2018
CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion
Oct 05, 2018
The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
May 17, 1987
Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story
May 04, 1993
The Story of Soaps
May 19, 2020
Love Letters
May 21, 2020
David Blaine: The Magic Way
Apr 01, 2020
Loving
Jun 26, 1983
Ancient Caves
Mar 13, 2020
Jerry & Marge Go Large
Oct 20, 2022
Kissing Miranda
Feb 25, 1995
Argylle
Jan 31, 2024
Asteroid City
Jun 08, 2023
Amazon Women on the Moon
Sep 18, 1987
Jackpot
Assassination
Lone Wolf
Chili Finger
Network
Mar 07, 2018
Show of Titles
Jun 13, 2021
The Phoenician Scheme
May 23, 2025
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
Jan 31, 2022
The Sheep Detectives
May 07, 2026
The Big Thing
When We Went MAD!
Jun 24, 2025
Malcolm In The Middle: Reese Goes To War
Nov 07, 2004
Kramer vs. Kramer: Kenny to Cosmo
Nov 23, 2004
Moscow Mule
May 02, 2024
Making of Better Call Saul: Finale
Sep 01, 2022
Falcon Crest
Dec 04, 1981
Murder, She Wrote
Sep 30, 1984
CHiPs
Sep 15, 1977
Breaking Bad
Jan 20, 2008
How I Met Your Mother
Sep 19, 2005
Seinfeld
Jul 05, 1989
The Tony Danza Show
Sep 13, 2004
American Dad!
Feb 06, 2005
Family Guy
Jan 31, 1999
L.A. Law
Sep 15, 1986
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jan 26, 2003
Touched by an Angel
Sep 21, 1994
Matlock
Mar 03, 1986
The Pretender
Sep 19, 1996
Lilo & Stitch: The Series
Sep 20, 2003
The View
Aug 11, 1997
Malcolm in the Middle
Jan 09, 2000
Walker, Texas Ranger
Apr 21, 1993
Hill Street Blues
Jan 15, 1981
Inside Comedy
Jan 26, 2012
Babylon 5
Jan 26, 1994
The X-Files
Sep 10, 1993
The King of Queens
Sep 21, 1998
Jake and the Fatman
Sep 26, 1987
Brotherly Love
Sep 16, 1995
Cover Up
Sep 22, 1984
MADtv
Oct 14, 1995
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
Chicago Hope
Sep 18, 1994
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Diagnosis: Murder
Oct 29, 1993
Goode Behavior
Aug 26, 1996
Raising Miranda
Nov 05, 1988
Pocket Dragon Adventures
Jan 01, 1998
Brooklyn South
Sep 22, 1997
Diagnosis: Murder
Oct 29, 1993
Fallen
Aug 04, 2007
Good Day Live
Sep 17, 2001
I Know My First Name Is Steven
May 22, 1989
The Emmy Awards
Jan 25, 1949
The Louie Show
Jan 31, 1996
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
Show Me More
Oct 20, 2021
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
Big History
Nov 02, 2013
The Daily Show
Jul 22, 1996
Family Guy
Jan 31, 1999
Family Guy
Jan 31, 1999
Family Guy
Jan 31, 1999
Family Guy
Jan 31, 1999
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Aug 04, 2005
Family Guy
Jan 31, 1999
SuperMansion
Oct 08, 2015
From the Earth to the Moon
Apr 05, 1998
Animal
Nov 10, 2021
Murder, She Wrote
Sep 30, 1984
American Dad!
Feb 06, 2005
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Sep 27, 1996
Viper
Jan 02, 1994
Baywatch
Apr 23, 1989
Talking with Chris Hardwick
Apr 09, 2017
Archer
Sep 17, 2009
The Stand
Dec 17, 2020
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Nov 17, 2006
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Mar 23, 2015
30 Rock
Oct 11, 2006
Hot Ones
Mar 12, 2015
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Feb 17, 2014
Nowhere Man
Aug 28, 1995
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Sep 17, 2017
Gary & Mike
Jan 12, 2001
Gary & Mike
Jan 12, 2001
Who Do You Think You Are?
Mar 05, 2010
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Jun 29, 2020
The Flash
Sep 20, 1990
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Sep 09, 2019
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Jul 16, 2009
MADtv
Oct 14, 1995
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
The View
Aug 11, 1997
Airwolf
Jan 22, 1984
Hart to Heart
Aug 05, 2021
Better Call Saul
Feb 08, 2015
Alf's Hit Talk Show
Jul 07, 2004
Your Honor
Dec 06, 2020
3rd Rock from the Sun
Jan 09, 1996
Just For Laughs: Redux
Jul 01, 2017
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Apr 27, 2014
Entertainment Tonight
Sep 15, 1981
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
On Air with Ryan Seacrest
Jan 01, 2004
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Aug 02, 2015
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Oct 15, 2000
Real Time with Bill Maher
Feb 21, 2003
The Simpsons
Dec 17, 1989
Geeking Out
Jul 24, 2016
Sneaky Pete
Aug 07, 2015
Eagle Riders
Sep 09, 1996
Matlock
Mar 03, 1986
The Writers' Room
Jul 29, 2013
Murder, She Wrote
Sep 30, 1984
Working
Oct 08, 1997
Thank God You're Here
Apr 09, 2007
V.I.P.
Sep 26, 1998
Capital News
Apr 09, 1990
Clerks
May 31, 2000
Clerks
May 31, 2000
Conan
Nov 08, 2010
The Simpsons
Dec 17, 1989
Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Dec 21, 2014
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
Sep 23, 2022
The Studio
Mar 25, 2025
Lilo & Stitch: The Series
Sep 20, 2003
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Sep 04, 2022
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
