Brian Cox
Known for Acting · 293 credits
- Born
- 1946-06-01 (age 80)
- Place of birth
- Dundee, Scotland, UK
- Also known as
- Brian Denis Cox · Brian Cox CBE · برایان کاکس
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
TV Shows (95)
The Simpsons
1989
as Kostas Becker (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
as Self
Frasier
1993
as Harry Moon
The Colbert Report
2005
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Guest
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
as God
Top Gear
2002
as Self
Great Performances
1971
as Self - Narration (voice)
Play for Today
1970
as Dr. Gillespie
The One Show
2006
as Self - Guest
Succession
2018
as Logan Roy
Minder
1979
as Frank
Have I Got News for You
1990
as Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Shetland
2013
as Magnus Bain
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Alsemero
The Last Leg
2013
as Self
Good Omens
2019
as Death (voice)
Superman: The Animated Series
1996
as Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
Red Dwarf
1988
as The King
Deadwood
2004
as Jack Langrishe
Question Time
1979
as Self - Panellist
The Wednesday Play
1964
as Nelson
Inspector Morse
1987
as Michael Steppings
Richard & Judy
2001
as Self
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
as Himself - Panellist
Playhouse
1974
as Dalhousie
The Tony Danza Show
2004
as Self
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
as Self / Self - Guest
Theatre 625
1964
as Lasar Opie
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Apeman
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
2000
as Anubis (voice)
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
as Self - Participant
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
as Self
Dexter: Resurrection
2025
as New York Ripper
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self – Actor / Self - Actor
Penny Dreadful
2014
as Jared Talbot
Remembers…
2022
Performance
1991
as The Director
Sharpe
1993
as Major Hogan
Medici: Masters of Florence
2016
as Bernardo Guadagni
Van der Valk
1972
as Stefan Szabo
The Russell Howard Hour
2017
as Self
M.I. High
2007
as Voice of the Mastermind
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
2021
as Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
Churchill's People
1974
as William Wallace
War and Peace
2016
as Mikhail Kutuzov
The Colour of Magic
2008
as Narrator
Hammer House of Horror
1980
as Chuck
Kings
2009
as King Vesper Abaddon
The Slap
2015
as Manolis
French & Saunders
1987
as King Lear
Target
1977
as Billy Voss
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
as Macbeth (voice)
Movies (198)
Troy
2004
as King Agamemnon
The Bourne Identity
2002
as Ward Abbott
Braveheart
1995
as Argyle Wallace
Her
2013
as Alan Watts (voice)
Zodiac
2007
as Melvin Belli
Pixels
2015
as Admiral Porter
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
as John Landon
The Ring
2002
as Richard Morgan
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016
as Tommy Tilden
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024
as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
The Bourne Supremacy
2004
as Ward Abbott
The Electric State
2025
as Popfly (voice)
RED
2010
as Ivan Simanov
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007
as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Match Point
2005
as Alec Hewett
RED 2
2013
as Ivan
Red Eye
2005
as Joe Reisert
Super Troopers
2001
as Captain O'Hagen
The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996
as Dr. Nathan Waldman
Kiss the Girls
1997
as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
The Campaign
2012
as Raymond
Trick 'r Treat
2007
as Mr. Kreeg
Morgan
2016
as Jim Bryce
Adaptation.
2002
as Robert McKee
25th Hour
2002
as James Brogan
Rushmore
1998
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
Coriolanus
2011
as Menenius
Rob Roy
1995
as Killearn
Desperate Measures
1998
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
Anna
2013
as Sebastian
That Christmas
2024
as Santa (voice)
The Rookie
2002
as Jim Morris Sr.
Ironclad
2011
as Albany
Chain Reaction
1996
as Lyman Earl Collier
The Water Horse
2007
as Old Angus
Iron Will
1994
as Angus McTeague
Glenrothan
2026
as Sandy
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
as Trotsky
Battle for Terra
2007
as General Hemmer (voice)
The Ringer
2005
as Gary Barker
For Love of the Game
1999
as Gary Wheeler
Forsaken
2015
as James McCurdy
Super Troopers 2
2018
as John O'Hagen
The Boxer
1997
as Joe Hamill
The Corruptor
1999
as Sean Wallace
Bonnie
2022
as Self
The Glimmer Man
1996
as Mr. Smith
Churchill
2017
as Winston Churchill
Last Moment of Clarity
2020
as Gilles
The Reckoning
2004
as Tobias
Red
2008
as Avery Ludlow
L.I.E.
2001
as Big John Harrigan
The Good Heart
2009
as Jacques
The Parenting
2025
as Frank
On Expenses
2010
as Michael Martin
Separation
2021
as Rivers
Quasi
2023
as Narrator (voice)
Prisoner's Daughter
2023
as Max
The Independent
2022
as Nick Booker
Strange but True
2019
as Bill
Prince of Jutland
1994
as Aethelwine
Mending the Line
2023
as Ike Fletcher
The Flying Scotsman
2006
as Douglas Baxter
The Veteran
2011
as Gerry
Tell-Tale
2009
as Van Doren
Running with Scissors
2006
as Dr. Finch
Saltwater
2000
as George Beneventi
The Etruscan Smile
2018
as Rory MacNeil
Super Troopers 3
2026
as Capt. John O’Hagan
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
The Year of the Sex Olympics
1968
as Lasar Opie
The Affair of the Necklace
2001
as Minister Breteuil
The Minus Man
1999
as Doug
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
as Hogan
Sin
2003
as Captain Oakes
The Escapist
2008
as Frank Perry
Hidden Agenda
1990
as Peter Kerrigan
Grushko
1994
as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
Little Wing
2024
as Jaan Vari
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
2009
as Green Dragon (voice)
An Adventure in Space and Time
2013
as Sydney Newman
The Anomaly
2014
as Dr. Langham
Blood
2012
as Lenny Fairburn
Shoot on Sight
2007
as Daniel Tennant
The Bay of Silence
2020
as Milton
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
2011
as Glover
Longitude
2000
as Lord Morton
Complicity
2000
as Inspector McDunn
Strictly Sinatra
2001
as Chisolm
Remember Me
2019
as Shane
Sharpe's Rifles
1993
as Major Michael Hogan
Merchants of Venus
1998
as Uncle Vladimir
Believe
2013
as Matt Busby
Pretenders
2019
as Henry
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003
as Self
The Key Man
2011
as Irving
King Lear
1983
as Burgundy
The Carer
2016
as Sir Michael
Exit Humanity
2011
as Malcolm Young (voice)
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005
as Joseph Bell
Poodle Springs
1998
as Clayton Blackstone
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
2017
as Conrad / Crunch (voice)
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
as Self
Blumenthal
2013
as Harold Blumenthal
A Shot at Glory
2000
as Martin Smith
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988
as Jack Purves
Bug
2002
as Cyr
Lawrence After Arabia
2020
as Father (Voice)
Florence Nightingale
1985
as Dr. McGregor
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
1976
as George Simpson
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
2003
as Self
Sharpe's Eagle
1993
as Major Michael Hogan
Rat in the Skull
1987
as Detective Inspector Nelson
Carry On Ken
2006
as Self
Murder on the Moon
1989
as Voronov
As Good As Dead
2010
as Reverend Kalahan
In Celebration
1975
as Steven Shaw
The Marbles
2025
as Self - Interviewee
The Last Right
2019
as Father Reilly
About Brian Cox
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 Shakespear… With 293 credits spanning from 1964 to 2026, Brian Cox has appeared in 198 films and 95 TV shows.
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Most Popular Brian Cox Movies
- Troy (2004) — as King Agamemnon
- The Bourne Identity (2002) — as Ward Abbott
- Braveheart (1995) — as Argyle Wallace
- Her (2013) — as Alan Watts (voice)
- Zodiac (2007) — as Melvin Belli
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