Brian Cox
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1946-06-01 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Dundee, Scotland, UK
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
Acting
Super Troopers 3
as Capt. John O’Hagan
A Modern Magician
as The Voice
Old Pals
as Jimmy
Wittgenstein's Poker
as Bertrand Russell (voice)
(2025)
The Electric State
as Popfly (voice)
(2025)
The Parenting
as Frank
(2025)
Glenrothan
as Sandy
(2025)
The Marbles
as Self
(2024)
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
(2024)
That Christmas
as Santa (voice)
(2024)
Little Wing
as Jaan Vari
(2024)
Skelly
as Grandpa
(2023)
Quasi
as Narrator (voice)
(2023)
Prisoner's Daughter
as Max
(2023)
Mending the Line
as Ike Fletcher
(2023)
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
as Narrator (voice)
(2023)
An Interview with Brian Cox
as Himself
(2022)
(2022)
Bonnie
as Self
(2022)
The Independent
as Nick Booker
(2022)
Ukraine: Answering the Call
as Self
(2022)
Ooh the Banter!
as Self
(2021)
Separation
as Rivers
(2021)
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
as Narrator (voice)
(2020)
The Bay of Silence
as Milton
(2020)
Last Moment of Clarity
as Gilles
(2020)
Lawrence After Arabia
as Father (Voice)
(2020)
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
as John Rebus
(2019)
Strange But True
as Bill
(2019)
The Last Right
as Father Reilly
(2019)
Pretenders
as Henry
(2019)
Remember Me
as Shane
(2018)
Super Troopers 2
as John O'Hagen
(2018)
The Etruscan Smile
as Rory MacNeil
(2018)
Kubrick by Candlelight
as The Narrator
(2018)
Widdershins
as voice
(2017)
Churchill
as Winston Churchill
(2017)
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
as Conrad / Crunch (voice)
(2017)
(2017)
An Evening with Brian Cox
as Himself
(2016)
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
as Tommy Tilden
(2016)
Morgan
as Jim Bryce
(2016)
The Carer
as Sir Michael
(2016)
(2016)
(2015)
Pixels
as Admiral Porter
(2015)
Forsaken
as James McCurdy
(2015)
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
(2015)
Killing Thyme
as Norman
(2015)
Pacific Warriors
as Narrator
(2014)
The Anomaly
as Dr. Langham
(2014)
The Gospel of John
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
(2014)
(2013)
RED 2
as Ivan
(2013)
Her
as Alan Watts (voice)
(2013)
Believe
as Matt Busby
(2013)
Anna
as Sebastian
(2013)
The Curse of Edgar
as Edgar Hoover
(2013)
An Adventure in Space and Time
as Sydney Newman
(2013)
Blumenthal
as Harold Blumenthal
(2012)
The Campaign
as Raymond
(2012)
Wide Blue Yonder
as Wally
(2012)
Blood
as Lenny Fairburn
(2012)
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
as Old Man
(2011)
The Veteran
as Gerry
(2011)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as John Landon
(2011)
Ironclad
as Albany
(2011)
Coriolanus
as Menenius
(2011)
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
as Glover
(2011)
Exit Humanity
as Malcolm Young (voice)
(2011)
The Key Man
as Irving
(2010)
RED
as Ivan Simanov
(2010)
As Good As Dead
as Reverend Kalahan
(2010)
(2009)
Fantastic Mr. Fox
as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
(2009)
Tell-Tale
as Van Doren
(2009)
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
as Green Dragon (voice)
(2009)
The Good Heart
as Jacques
(2009)
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
as Self
(2008)
Red
as Avery Ludlow
(2008)
The Escapist
as Frank Perry
(2008)
Agent Crush
as Spanners (voice)
(2007)
The Bourne Ultimatum
as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2007)
Zodiac
as Melvin Belli
(2007)
Trick 'r Treat
as Mr. Kreeg
(2007)
The Water Horse
as Old Angus
(2007)
Battle for Terra
as General Hemmer (voice)
(2007)
Shoot on Sight
as Daniel Tennant
(2007)
The Secret of the Nutcracker
as Drosselmeyer
(2007)
A Woman in Winter
as Dr. Hunt
(2006)
Running with Scissors
as Dr. Finch
(2006)
The Flying Scotsman
as Douglas Baxter
(2006)
Carry On Ken
as Self
(2006)
The Outsiders
as Gabriel
(2005)
Match Point
as Alec Hewett
(2005)
Red Eye
as Joe Reisert
(2005)
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
as Joseph Bell
(2005)
The Ringer
as Gary Barker
(2005)
Blue/Orange
as Dr. Robert Smith
(2005)
Japan's War in Colour
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2005)
Hitler in Colour
as Narrator
(2004)
Troy
as King Agamemnon
(2004)
The Bourne Supremacy
as Ward Abbott
(2004)
Murder by Numbers
as Self
(2004)
The Reckoning
as Tobias
(2004)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
(2003)
Sin
as Captain Oakes
(2003)
(2003)
(2003)
X2
as William Stryker
(2002)
The Bourne Identity
as Ward Abbott
(2002)
The Ring
as Richard Morgan
(2002)
The Rookie
as Jim Morris Sr.
(2002)
Adaptation.
as Robert McKee
(2002)
25th Hour
as James Brogan
(2002)
Bug
as Cyr
(2002)
The Biographer
as Michael O'Mara
(2002)
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
as Narrator
(2002)
(2002)
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
as Narrator
(2002)
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
as Narrator
(2002)
(2001)
The Affair of the Necklace
as Minister Breteuil
(2001)
Super Troopers
as John O'Hagen
(2001)
L.I.E.
as Big John Harrigan
(2001)
Strictly Sinatra
as Chisolm
(2001)
Inside 'Manhunter'
as Himself
(2000)
A Shot at Glory
as Martin Smith
(2000)
Longitude
as Lord Morton
(2000)
The Making of 'Rushmore'
as Self
(2000)
Complicity
as Inspector McDunn
(2000)
Saltwater
as George Beneventi
(2000)
Mad About Mambo
as Sidney McLoughlin
(2000)
The Invention of Dr. Morel
as Dr. Morel
(1999)
The Minus Man
as Doug
(1999)
For Love of the Game
as Gary Wheeler
(1999)
The Corruptor
as Sean Wallace
(1999)
The History of the British Police Force
as Narrator (voice)
(1998)
Rushmore
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
(1998)
Desperate Measures
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
(1998)
Merchants of Venus
as Uncle Vladimir
(1998)
Poodle Springs
as Clayton Blackstone
(1997)
Sharpe: The Legend
as Hogan
(1997)
Kiss the Girls
as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
(1997)
The Boxer
as Joe Hamill
(1997)
Food for Ravens
as Aneurin Bevan
(1996)
The Long Kiss Goodnight
as Dr. Nathan Waldman
(1996)
Chain Reaction
as Lyman Earl Collier
(1996)
The Glimmer Man
as Mr. Smith
(1996)
Witness Against Hitler
as Judge Freisler
(1995)
Braveheart
as Argyle Wallace
(1995)
Rob Roy
as Killearn
(1994)
Iron Will
as Angus McTeague
(1994)
Prince of Jutland
as Aethelwine
(1994)
Grushko
as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
(1994)
The Negotiator
as Charlie King
(1994)
The Maltese Double Cross
as Narrator (voice)
(1993)
Sharpe's Eagle
as Major Michael Hogan
(1993)
Sharpe's Rifles
as Major Michael Hogan
(1992)
The Lost Language of Cranes
as Owen Benjamin
(1992)
Macbeth
as Macbeth
(1992)
Deceptions
as Carlton Heard
(1992)
The Cloning of Joanna May
as Carl May
(1992)
Six Characters in Search of An Author
as The Director
(1992)
(1991)
Red Fox
as Geoffrey Harrison
(1990)
Secret Weapon
as Andrew Neil
(1990)
(1990)
Hidden Agenda
as Peter Kerrigan
(1989)
Murder on the Moon
as Voronov
(1989)
The Blasphemers' Banquet
as Rev. Wallace (voice)
(1989)
(1988)
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
as Jack Purves
(1988)
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
as Voiceover Narrator
(1987)
Shoot for the Sun
as Dunny
(1987)
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
as Narrator
(1987)
Rat in the Skull
as Detective Inspector Nelson
(1986)
Home Cooking
as Vic
(1986)
Manhunter
as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
(1985)
Florence Nightingale
as Dr. McGregor
(1985)
The Cantor of St Thomas's
as Johann Sebastian Bach
(1984)
Pope John Paul II
as Father Góra
(1983)
King Lear
as Burgundy
(1982)
A Cotswold Death
as Dr. Gillespie
(1982)
The Privilege
as Young Laird
(1980)
Dalhousie's Luck
as Dalhousie
(1976)
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
as George Simpson
(1975)
In Celebration
as Steven Shaw
(1974)
The Changeling
as Alsemero
(1971)
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Trotsky
(1968)
The Year of the Sex Olympics
as Lasar Opie
(1965)
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
as Nelson
Crew
(2025)
Seven Jewish Children
Executive Producer
(2025)
Glenrothan
Director, Producer
(2024)
Little Wing
Executive Producer
(2008)
The Escapist
Executive Producer
(2008)
Red
Associate Producer