Brian Cox
Born June 01, 1946 (Age: 79)
•
Dundee, Scotland, UK
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.
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.
Read more
Filmography
Glenrothan
2026
•
as Sandy
•
Age: 79
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
2025
•
as Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)
•
Age: 79
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024
•
as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
•
Age: 78
Mending the Line
2023
•
as Ike Fletcher
•
Age: 77
Separation
2021
•
as Rivers
•
Age: 74
The Bay of Silence
2020
•
as Milton
•
Age: 74
Strange but True
2019
•
as Bill
•
Age: 73
Super Troopers 2
2018
•
as John O'Hagen
•
Age: 71
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
2017
•
as Conrad / Crunch (voice)
•
Age: 70
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
2016
•
as Self
•
Age: 70
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016
•
as Tommy Tilden
•
Age: 70
Morgan
2016
•
as Jim Bryce
•
Age: 70
The Carer
2016
•
as Sir Michael
•
Age: 70
Killing Thyme
2015
•
as Norman
•
Age: 69
Pixels
2015
•
as Admiral Porter
•
Age: 69
Her
2013
•
as Alan Watts (voice)
•
Age: 67
Anna
2013
•
as Sebastian
•
Age: 67
Believe
2013
•
as Matt Busby
•
Age: 67
RED 2
2013
•
as Ivan
•
Age: 67
The Campaign
2012
•
as Raymond
•
Age: 66
All at Sea
2012
•
as Wally
•
Age: 65
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
2011
•
as Glover
•
Age: 65
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
•
as John Landon
•
Age: 65
Ironclad
2011
•
as Albany
•
Age: 64
Coriolanus
2011
•
as Menenius
•
Age: 64
RED
2010
•
as Ivan Simanov
•
Age: 64
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
•
as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
•
Age: 63
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
2009
•
as Self
•
Age: 63
The Water Horse
2007
•
as Old Angus
•
Age: 61
Trick 'r Treat
2007
•
as Mr. Kreeg
•
Age: 61
Battle for Terra
2007
•
as General Hemmer (voice)
•
Age: 61
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007
•
as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
•
Age: 61
Zodiac
2007
•
as Melvin Belli
•
Age: 60
Running with Scissors
2006
•
as Dr. Finch
•
Age: 60
No Image
The Outsiders
2006
•
as Gabriel
•
Age: 60
Carry On Ken
2006
•
as Self
•
Age: 59
The Ringer
2005
•
as Gary Barker
•
Age: 59
Match Point
2005
•
as Alec Hewett
•
Age: 59
Red Eye
2005
•
as Joe Reisert
•
Age: 59
Hitler in Colour
2005
•
as Narrator
•
Age: 58
Blue/Orange
2005
•
as Dr. Robert Smith
•
Age: 58
The Bourne Supremacy
2004
•
as Ward Abbott
•
Age: 58
Troy
2004
•
as King Agamemnon
•
Age: 57
Murder by Numbers
2004
•
as Self
•
Age: 57
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003
•
as Self
•
Age: 56
X2
2003
•
as William Stryker
•
Age: 56
25th Hour
2002
•
as James Brogan
•
Age: 56
Adaptation.
2002
•
as Robert McKee
•
Age: 56
No Image
Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World
2002
•
as Narrator
•
Age: 56
The Ring
2002
•
as Richard Morgan
•
Age: 56
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2002
•
as Self
•
Age: 56
The Biographer
2002
•
as Michael O'Mara
•
Age: 56
The Bourne Identity
2002
•
as Ward Abbott
•
Age: 56
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
2002
•
as Narrator
•
Age: 55
The Rookie
2002
•
as Jim Morris Sr.
•
Age: 55
Bug
2002
•
as Cyr
•
Age: 55
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
2002
•
as Narrator
•
Age: 55
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
2002
•
as Narrator
•
Age: 55
The Affair of the Necklace
2001
•
as Minister Breteuil
•
Age: 55
L.I.E.
2001
•
as Big John Harrigan
•
Age: 55
Super Troopers
2001
•
as Captain O'Hagen
•
Age: 54
Saltwater
2000
•
as George Beneventi
•
Age: 54
Complicity
2000
•
as Inspector McDunn
•
Age: 53
A Shot at Glory
2000
•
as Martin Smith
•
Age: 53
Mad About Mambo
2000
•
as Sidney McLoughlin
•
Age: 53
The Invention of Dr. Morel
2000
•
as Dr. Morel
•
Age: 53
The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000
•
as Self
•
Age: 53
Longitude
2000
•
as Lord Morton
•
Age: 53
No Image
The History of the British Police Force
1999
•
as Narrator (voice)
•
Age: 53
The Minus Man
1999
•
as Doug
•
Age: 53
For Love of the Game
1999
•
as Gary Wheeler
•
Age: 53
The Corruptor
1999
•
as Sean Wallace
•
Age: 52
Rushmore
1998
•
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
•
Age: 52
Poodle Springs
1998
•
as Clayton Blackstone
•
Age: 52
Battle of the Clans
1998
•
as Narrator
•
Age: 52
Merchants of Venus
1998
•
as Uncle Vladimir
•
Age: 51
Desperate Measures
1998
•
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
•
Age: 51
The Boxer
1997
•
as Joe Hamill
•
Age: 51
Food for Ravens
1997
•
as Aneurin Bevan
•
Age: 51
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
•
as Hogan
•
Age: 51
Kiss the Girls
1997
•
as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
•
Age: 51
The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996
•
as Dr. Nathan Waldman
•
Age: 50
The Glimmer Man
1996
•
as Mr. Smith
•
Age: 50
Chain Reaction
1996
•
as Lyman Earl Collier
•
Age: 50
Witness Against Hitler
1996
•
as Judge Freisler
•
Age: 49
Braveheart
1995
•
as Argyle Wallace
•
Age: 48
Rob Roy
1995
•
as Killearn
•
Age: 48
The Negotiator
1994
•
as Charlie King
•
Age: 47
Grushko
1994
•
as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
•
Age: 47
Iron Will
1994
•
as Angus McTeague
•
Age: 47
Sharpe's Eagle
1993
•
as Major Michael Hogan
•
Age: 46
Sharpe's Rifles
1993
•
as Major Michael Hogan
•
Age: 46
Six Characters in Search of An Author
1992
•
as The Director
•
Age: 46
Macbeth
1992
•
as Macbeth
•
Age: 46
The Cutter
1992
•
as
•
Age: 46
The Lost Language of Cranes
1992
•
as Owen Benjamin
•
Age: 45
The Cloning of Joanna May
1992
•
as Carl May
•
Age: 45
Deceptions
1992
•
as Carlton Heard
•
Age: 45
Red Fox
1991
•
as Geoffrey Harrison
•
Age: 45
Hidden Agenda
1990
•
as Peter Kerrigan
•
Age: 44
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
1990
•
as self
•
Age: 43
Secret Weapon
1990
•
as Andrew Neil
•
Age: 43
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
1989
•
as Self
•
Age: 43
The Blasphemers' Banquet
1989
•
as Rev. Wallace (voice)
•
Age: 43
Murder on the Moon
1989
•
as Voronov
•
Age: 42
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
1988
•
as Voiceover Narrator
•
Age: 42
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988
•
as Jack Purves
•
Age: 41
Shoot for the Sun
1987
•
as Dunny
•
Age: 40
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
1987
•
as Narrator
•
Age: 40
No Image
Rat in the Skull
1987
•
as Detective Inspector Nelson
•
Age: 40
Manhunter
1986
•
as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
•
Age: 40
Florence Nightingale
1985
•
as Dr. McGregor
•
Age: 38
No Image
The Cantor of St Thomas's
1985
•
as Johann Sebastian Bach
•
Age: 38
The Privilege
1982
•
as Young Laird
•
Age: 35
Dalhousie's Luck
1980
•
as Dalhousie
•
Age: 34
The Changeling
1974
•
as Alsemero
•
Age: 27
No Image
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
1965
•
as Nelson
•
Age: 19