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 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.
292 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 292
The Simpsons
1989
The Daily Show
1996
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Frasier
1993
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
The Colbert Report
2005
Top Gear
2002
Great Performances
1971
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Minder
1979
Succession
2018
The One Show
2006
Play for Today
1970
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Shetland
2013
Good Omens
2019
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Superman: The Animated Series
1996
Deadwood
2004
Inspector Morse
1987
Troy
2004
BBC Play of the Month
1965
The Last Leg
2013
Red Dwarf
1988
Have I Got News for You
1990
Playhouse
1974
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
2000
The Tony Danza Show
2004
Theatre 625
1964
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
—
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
The Bourne Identity
2002
ITV Playhouse
1967
Question Time
1979
Richard & Judy
2001
Penny Dreadful
2014
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
Braveheart
1995
Dexter: Resurrection
2025
Pixels
2015
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
Zodiac
2007
Her
2013
Performance
1991
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
2021
Medici: Masters of Florence
2016
RED
2010
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
Remembers…
2022
M.I. High
2007
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007
Van der Valk
1972
Sharpe
1993
War and Peace
2016
The Ring
2002
The Russell Howard Hour
2017
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
Kings
2009
Churchill's People
1974
The Electric State
2025
The Bourne Supremacy
2004
Trick 'r Treat
2007
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024
The Slap
2015
French & Saunders
1987
RED 2
2013
Hammer House of Horror
1980
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
Match Point
2005
The Colour of Magic
2008
The Game
2014
Nuremberg
2000
Kiss the Girls
1997
The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
Target
1977
Longitude
2000
Red Eye
2005
The Take
2009
A Touch of Cloth
2012
25th Hour
2002
Manhunt
1970
Unsinkable
2024
The Day of the Triffids
2009
007: Road to a Million
2023
Adaptation.
2002
Morgan
2016
Perfect Scoundrels
1990
The Straits
2012
Tooned
2012
Chain Reaction
1996
Rob Roy
1995
The Rookie
2002
That Christmas
2024
The Sinking of the Laconia
2011
The Great War: The People's Story
2014
The Campaign
2012
Rushmore
1998
Ironclad
2011
Super Troopers
2001
The Water Horse
2007
For Love of the Game
1999
The Glimmer Man
1996
Out
1978
Forsaken
2015
VE Day 80
2025
Bob Servant
2013
The Corruptor
1999
Unnatural Causes
1986
The Boxer
1997
Battle for Terra
2007
Piers Morgan Uncensored
2022
Coriolanus
2011
Separation
2021
The Ringer
2005
Iron Will
1994
Anna
2013
Desperate Measures
1998
The Veteran
2011
The Parenting
2025
Super Troopers 2
2018
Red
2008
The Anomaly
2014
Churchill
2017
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
The Independent
2022
The Gamblers
1967
L.I.E.
2001
Amol Rajan Interviews
2021
One Life
2003
Last Moment of Clarity
2020
Longitude
2000
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
2009
Running with Scissors
2006
Super Troopers 3
2026
Glenrothan
2026
House on the Hill
1981
The Reckoning
2004
Therese Raquin
1980
Sin
2003
The Flying Scotsman
2006
Complicity
2000
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
2023
The Bay of Silence
2020
Acting
1987
Prince of Jutland
1994
The Minus Man
1999
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
2011
The Devil's Crown
1978
Blood
2012
Strange but True
2019
Believe
2013
The Escapist
2008
As Good As Dead
2010
Quasi
2023
Tell-Tale
2009
Bonnie
2022
Prisoner's Daughter
2023
The Big Battalions
1992
The Affair of the Necklace
2001
The Good Heart
2009
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
The Last Right
2019
An Adventure in Space and Time
2013
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
2017
I, Caesar – The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
1997
Little Wing
2024
Hidden Agenda
1990
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
Bug
2002
The Key Man
2011
Poodle Springs
1998
Pretenders
2019
Remember Me
2019
Saltwater
2000
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
1988
Strictly Sinatra
2001
A Shot at Glory
2000
Florence Nightingale
1985
King Lear
1983
The Etruscan Smile
2018
Merchants of Venus
1998
The Marbles
2025
The Sunrise File
2026
The Carer
2016
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005
Mad About Mambo
2000
Sharpe's Rifles
1993
The Changeling
1974
Pope John Paul II
1984
Sharpe's Eagle
1993
Masters of Darkness
2002
Addicted to Pleasure
2012
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live
2022
Rat in the Skull
1987
The Gospel of John
2014
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
2023
Brian Cox's Russia
2017
Mending the Line
2023
Ukraine: Answering the Call
2022
The Curse of Edgar
2013
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003
Carry On Ken
2006
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
2003
Red Fox
1991
Grushko
1994
Exit Humanity
2011
A Woman in Winter
2007
Ooh the Banter!
2022
Secret Weapon
1990
Old Pals
—
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
Six Characters in Search of An Author
1992
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2002
Skelly
2024
Japan's War in Colour
2005
The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000
Inside 'Manhunter'
2001
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988
Wittgenstein's Poker
—
X2
2003
A Cotswold Death
1982
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
2021
On Expenses
2010
Made of Money with Brian Cox
2023
In Celebration
1975
Blumenthal
2013
The Year of the Sex Olympics
1968
Murder on the Moon
1989
The Lost Language of Cranes
1992
Shoot on Sight
2007
All at Sea
2012
The Outsiders
2006
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016
Agent Crush
2008
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
2002
Shoot for the Sun
1987
Food for Ravens
1997
Blue/Orange
2005
Murder by Numbers
2004
The Secret of the Nutcracker
2007
Home Cooking
1986
The Negotiator
1994
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
1976
Scotland In A Day
2014
Witness Against Hitler
1996
The Biographer
2002
Widdershins
2018
The Glove
—
Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World
2002
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
1990
The Cloning of Joanna May
1992
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
2002
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
2009
Killing Thyme
2015
Dalhousie's Luck
1980
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
2025
Deceptions
1992
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
2015
Lawrence After Arabia
2020
The Maltese Double Cross
1994
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
2002
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
2012
The Cutter
1992
Kubrick by Candlelight
2018
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
2004
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
2016
An Interview with Brian Cox
2023
The Planets
—
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
1987
Manhunter
1986
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
2020
An Evening with Brian Cox
2017
Pacific Warriors
2015
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
1989
The Cantor of St Thomas's
1985
The History of the British Police Force
1999
The Invention of Dr. Morel
2000
Hitler in Colour
2005
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
2017
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
1965
The Blasphemers' Banquet
1989
AMR: Dying to Change the World
2025
A Modern Magician
—
The Privilege
1982
Battle of the Clans
1998
