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.
Movies (184)
Super Troopers 3
2026
The Sunrise File
2026
Glenrothan
2026
The Marbles
2025
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
2025
The Parenting
2025
The Electric State
2025
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024
That Christmas
2024
Skelly
2024
Little Wing
2024
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
2023
Prisoner's Daughter
2023
Mending the Line
2023
Quasi
2023
An Interview with Brian Cox
2023
Ooh the Banter!
2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
Bonnie
2022
The Independent
2022
Ukraine: Answering the Call
2022
Separation
2021
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
2021
The Bay of Silence
2020
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
2020
Last Moment of Clarity
2020
Lawrence After Arabia
2020
The Last Right
2019
Strange but True
2019
Pretenders
2019
Remember Me
2019
Kubrick by Candlelight
2018
Widdershins
2018
Super Troopers 2
2018
The Etruscan Smile
2018
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
2017
Churchill
2017
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
2017
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
2016
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016
Morgan
2016
The Carer
2016
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016
Killing Thyme
2015
Forsaken
2015
Pacific Warriors
2015
Pixels
2015
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
2015
The Gospel of John
2014
The Anomaly
2014
Her
2013
An Adventure in Space and Time
2013
The Curse of Edgar
2013
Anna
2013
Believe
2013
RED 2
2013
Blood
2012
The Campaign
2012
All at Sea
2012
Exit Humanity
2011
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
The Veteran
2011
Ironclad
2011
The Key Man
2011
Coriolanus
2011
RED
2010
On Expenses
2010
As Good As Dead
2010
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
2009
The Good Heart
2009
Tell-Tale
2009
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
2009
Red
2008
The Escapist
2008
Agent Crush
2008
The Water Horse
2007
The Secret of the Nutcracker
2007
Shoot on Sight
2007
Trick 'r Treat
2007
Battle for Terra
2007
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007
A Woman in Winter
2007
Zodiac
2007
Running with Scissors
2006
The Flying Scotsman
2006
Carry On Ken
2006
The Ringer
2005
Match Point
2005
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005
Red Eye
2005
Hitler in Colour
2005
Blue/Orange
2005
Japan's War in Colour
2005
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
The Bourne Supremacy
2004
Troy
2004
Murder by Numbers
2004
The Reckoning
2004
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
2003
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003
X2
2003
Sin
2003
25th Hour
2002
Adaptation.
2002
The Ring
2002
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2002
The Biographer
2002
The Bourne Identity
2002
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
2002
The Rookie
2002
Bug
2002
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
2002
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
2002
The Affair of the Necklace
2001
L.I.E.
2001
Strictly Sinatra
2001
Super Troopers
2001
Inside 'Manhunter'
2001
Saltwater
2000
Complicity
2000
A Shot at Glory
2000
Mad About Mambo
2000
The Invention of Dr. Morel
2000
The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000
Longitude
2000
The Minus Man
1999
For Love of the Game
1999
The Corruptor
1999
Rushmore
1998
Poodle Springs
1998
Battle of the Clans
1998
Merchants of Venus
1998
Desperate Measures
1998
The Boxer
1997
Food for Ravens
1997
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
Kiss the Girls
1997
The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996
The Glimmer Man
1996
Chain Reaction
1996
Witness Against Hitler
1996
Braveheart
1995
Rob Roy
1995
The Maltese Double Cross
1994
The Negotiator
1994
Grushko
1994
Prince of Jutland
1994
Iron Will
1994
Sharpe's Eagle
1993
Sharpe's Rifles
1993
Six Characters in Search of An Author
1992
The Cutter
1992
The Lost Language of Cranes
1992
The Cloning of Joanna May
1992
Deceptions
1992
Red Fox
1991
Hidden Agenda
1990
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
1990
Secret Weapon
1990
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
1989
The Blasphemers' Banquet
1989
Murder on the Moon
1989
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
1988
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988
Shoot for the Sun
1987
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
1987
Home Cooking
1986
Manhunter
1986
Florence Nightingale
1985
Pope John Paul II
1984
King Lear
1983
A Cotswold Death
1982
The Privilege
1982
Dalhousie's Luck
1980
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
1976
In Celebration
1975
The Changeling
1974
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
The Year of the Sex Olympics
1968
A Modern Magician
The Glove
The Planets
TV Shows (92)
Dexter: Resurrection
2025
VE Day 80
2025
Unsinkable
2024
007: Road to a Million
2023
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
2023
Made of Money with Brian Cox
2023
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live
2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
Remembers…
2022
Piers Morgan Uncensored
2022
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
2021
Amol Rajan Interviews
2021
Good Omens
2019
Succession
2018
The Russell Howard Hour
2017
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
Brian Cox's Russia
2017
Medici: Masters of Florence
2016
War and Peace
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Slap
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Game
2014
The Great War: The People's Story
2014
Penny Dreadful
2014
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Shetland
2013
The Last Leg
2013
Bob Servant
2013
Addicted to Pleasure
2012
A Touch of Cloth
2012
Tooned
2012
The Straits
2012
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
The Sinking of the Laconia
2011
The Day of the Triffids
2009
The Take
2009
Kings
2009
The Colour of Magic
2008
The Graham Norton Show
2007
M.I. High
2007
The One Show
2006
The Colbert Report
2005
Deadwood
2004
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Top Gear
2002
Richard & Judy
2001
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
2000
Nuremberg
2000
Longitude
2000
I, Caesar – The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
1997
Superman: The Animated Series
1996
The Daily Show
1996
Frasier
1993
Sharpe
1993
The Big Battalions
1992
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
Performance
1991
Have I Got News for You
1990
Perfect Scoundrels
1990
The Simpsons
1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Red Dwarf
1988
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
French & Saunders
1987
Inspector Morse
1987
Unnatural Causes
1986
House on the Hill
1981
Hammer House of Horror
1980
Therese Raquin
1980
Minder
1979
Question Time
1979
Out
1978
The Devil's Crown
1978
Target
1977
Churchill's People
1974
Playhouse
1974
Van der Valk
1972
Great Performances
1971
Play for Today
1970
Manhunt
1970
ITV Playhouse
1967
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Theatre 625
1964
