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.
Known For
Argyle Wallace
Braveheart
Richard Morgan
The Ring
James Brogan
25th Hour
King Agamemnon
Troy
Clayton Blackstone
Poodle Springs
Action 12 Reporter (voice)
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Melvin Belli
Zodiac
Ward Abbott
The Bourne Identity
Ward Abbott
The Bourne Supremacy
Nick Booker
The Independent
Robert McKee
Adaptation.
Jacques
The Good Heart
Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
Rushmore
Dr. Nathan Waldman
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Doug
The Minus Man
Mr. Kreeg
Trick 'r Treat
Dr. Finch
Running with Scissors
Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
Manhunter
Joe Reisert
Red Eye
Killearn
Rob Roy
Angus McTeague
Iron Will
Inspector McDunn
Complicity
Lyman Earl Collier
Chain Reaction
Cyr
Bug
Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
Kiss the Girls
Sean Wallace
The Corruptor
Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
Desperate Measures
Tobias
The Reckoning
Gary Barker
The Ringer
Avery Ludlow
Red
Van Doren
Tell-Tale
Mr. Smith
The Glimmer Man
Reverend Kalahan
As Good As Dead
William Stryker
X2
Jim Morris Sr.
The Rookie
Frank Perry
The Escapist
Sidney McLoughlin
Mad About Mambo
Douglas Baxter
The Flying Scotsman
Himself
An Interview with Brian Cox
Self
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
Albany
Ironclad
Trotsky
Nicholas and Alexandra
Green Dragon (voice)
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
General Hemmer (voice)
Battle for Terra
Ivan Simanov
RED
Joe Hamill
The Boxer
Narrator (voice)
Quasi
Peter Kerrigan
Hidden Agenda
Burgundy
King Lear
John O'Hagen
Super Troopers
Self - Narrator (voice)
Japan's War in Colour
Narrator (voice)
The Maltese Double Cross
Big John Harrigan
L.I.E.
Aethelwine
Prince of Jutland
Lord Morton
Longitude
Minister Breteuil
The Affair of the Necklace
Major Michael Hogan
Sharpe's Eagle
Major Michael Hogan
Sharpe's Rifles
Gerry
The Veteran
Drosselmeyer
The Secret of the Nutcracker
Old Angus
The Water Horse
Voiceover Narrator
Regi Andrej Tarkovskij
Owen Benjamin
The Lost Language of Cranes
Self
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
Rev. Wallace (voice)
The Blasphemers' Banquet
Raymond
The Campaign
Menenius
Coriolanus
Irving
The Key Man
Frank
The Parenting
Dr. Hunt
A Woman in Winter
Alan Watts (voice)
Her
Young Laird
The Privilege
Chisolm
Strictly Sinatra
Lasar Opie
The Year of the Sex Olympics
Lenny Fairburn
Blood
Steven Shaw
In Celebration
Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Judge Freisler
Witness Against Hitler
Self
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Carl May
The Cloning of Joanna May
Jaan Vari
Little Wing
Sydney Newman
An Adventure in Space and Time
On Expenses
The Cutter
Old Man
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
The Director
Six Characters in Search of An Author
Edgar Hoover
La Malédiction d'Edgar
Narrator
Hitler in Colour
Sebastian
Anna
Himself
Inside 'Manhunter'
Matt Busby
Believe
Harold Blumenthal
Blumenthal
Helm Hammerhand (voice)
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Ivan
RED 2
Alec Hewett
Match Point
Alsemero
The Changeling
Self
Ukraine: Answering the Call
Carlton Heard
Deceptions
Father Góra
Pope John Paul II
John Landon
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Popfly (voice)
The Electric State
The Voice
A Modern Magician
Dr. Langham
The Anomaly
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Narrator (voice) – King James Version
The Gospel of John
Self
Murder by Numbers
Self
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
Dunny
Shoot for the Sun
The Glove
Self
Bonnie
self
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
Admiral Porter
Pixels
Jack Purves
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Narrator (voice)
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
James McCurdy
Forsaken
Glover
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
Malcolm Young (voice)
Exit Humanity
Santa (voice)
That Christmas
The Planets
Self
Ooh the Banter!
Spanners (voice)
Agent Crush
Narrator
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
Daniel Tennant
Shoot on Sight
Grandpa
Skelly
George Beneventi
Saltwater
Bertrand Russell (voice)
Wittgenstein's Poker
Hogan
Sharpe: The Legend
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Sir Michael
The Carer
Jim Bryce
Morgan
Tommy Tilden
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Gary Wheeler
For Love of the Game
Voronov
Murder on the Moon
Narrator
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making 'X2'
Scotland In A Day
Joseph Bell
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Sandy
Glenrothan
Henry
Pretenders
Geoffrey Harrison
Red Fox
Martin Smith
A Shot at Glory
Aneurin Bevan
Food for Ravens
Dr. Robert Smith
Blue/Orange
Narrator
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
Detective Inspector Nelson
Rat in the Skull
Narrator
Pacific Warriors
Uncle Vladimir
Merchants of Venus
John O'Hagen
Super Troopers 2
Captain Oakes
Sin
Bill
Strange but True
Narrator
Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World
Dr. McGregor
Florence Nightingale
Conrad / Crunch (voice)
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
Rory MacNeil
The Etruscan Smile
The Narrator
Kubrick by Candlelight
Dr. Morel
The Invention of Dr. Morel
Shane
Remember Me
Gilles
Last Moment of Clarity
Other Voices (voice)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Cantor of St Thomas's
Milton
The Bay of Silence
Wally
All at Sea
Andrew Neil
Secret Weapon
Father Reilly
The Last Right
Father (Voice)
Lawrence After Arabia
Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
Grushko
Charlie King
The Negotiator
voice
Widdershins
Andrew Carnegie (voice)
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
Gabriel
The Outsiders
John Rebus
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
Himself
An Evening with Brian Cox
Nelson
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
Dr. Gillespie
A Cotswold Death
Michael O'Mara
The Biographer
George Simpson
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
Rivers
Separation
Vic
Home Cooking
Narrator (voice)
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
Self
Carry On Ken
Narrator
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
Ike Fletcher
Mending the Line
Max
Prisoner's Daughter
Dalhousie
Dalhousie's Luck
Self
The Making of 'Rushmore'
Norman
Killing Thyme
Self
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Jimmy
Old Pals
Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Bourne Ultimatum
Narrator
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
Macbeth
Macbeth
Narrator (voice)
The History of the British Police Force
Capt. John O’Hagan
Super Troopers 3
Self
The Marbles
AMR
AMR: Dying to Change the World
Self — Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
196
Gender
Male
Birthday
1946-06-01
Place of Birth
Dundee, Scotland, UK
Also Known As
Brian Denis Cox