Bryan Cranston
Bryan Lee Cranston (born March 7, 1956) is an American actor. After taking minor roles in television, he established himself as a leading actor in both comedic and dramatic works on stage and screen. He has received several accolades, including seven Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, and two Tony Awards, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. Cranston first gained prominence playing Hal in the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (2000–2006), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He gained stardom for his dramatic leading role playing Walter White in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013), for which he won the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times (2008, 2009, 2010, and 2014). He was Emmy-nominated for All the Way (2016) and Curb Your Enthusiasm (2018). Cranston co-developed and appeared in the crime drama series Sneaky Pete (2015–2019), and has also starred in the drama series Your Honor (2020–2023). On stage, he earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his portrayal of President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Broadway play All the Way (2014), a role he reprised in the 2016 HBO film of the same name. He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and his second Tony Award for portraying Howard Beale in the play Network on the West End and Broadway, respectively. Cranston earned nominations for the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor for portraying Dalton Trumbo in the Hollywood blacklist drama Trumbo (2015). Other notable films include Saving Private Ryan (1998), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Drive (2011), Contagion (2011), Argo (2012), Godzilla (2014), The Infiltrator (2016), The Upside (2017), Last Flag Flying (2017), Isle of Dogs (2018), Asteroid City (2023), and The Phoenician Scheme (2025). He has also voiced roles in Madagascar 3 (2012), Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016), and Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Bryan Cranston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
209 acting credits · 9 directing credits
Acting · 209
The Simpsons
1989
Breaking Bad
2008
Family Guy
1999
The Daily Show
1996
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
American Dad!
2005
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Better Call Saul
2015
The X-Files
1993
Seinfeld
1989
How I Met Your Mother
2005
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
The Sheep Detectives
2026
Saturday Night Live
1975
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Conan
2010
Malcolm in the Middle
2000
The Colbert Report
2005
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Falcon Crest
1981
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
2005
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
30 Rock
2006
The View
1997
Babylon 5
1994
The King of Queens
1998
Hill Street Blues
1981
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Chicago Hope
1994
Archer
2009
Baywatch
1989
Hot Ones
2015
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
1996
Matlock
1986
Hollywood Squares
1998
Touched by an Angel
1994
L.A. Law
1986
3rd Rock from the Sun
1996
Airwolf
1984
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
V.I.P.
1998
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
The Pretender
1996
Jake and the Fatman
1987
Saving Private Ryan
1998
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Kung Fu Panda 4
2024
CHiPs
1977
Viper
1994
From the Earth to the Moon
1998
Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair
2026
Lilo & Stitch: The Series
2003
Sneaky Pete
2015
The Oscars
1953
Good Day Live
2001
The Tony Danza Show
2004
The Flash
1990
The Studio
2025
Your Honor
2020
Kung Fu Panda 3
2016
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
Drive
2011
Hot Ones Versus
2024
The Stand
2020
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
2012
Brooklyn South
1997
On Air with Ryan Seacrest
2004
Godzilla
2014
Nowhere Man
1995
The Phoenician Scheme
2025
Brotherly Love
1995
Contagion
2011
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
2020
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2017
John Carter
2012
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Argo
2012
Inside Comedy
2012
Cover Up
1984
Working
1997
Isle of Dogs
2018
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
2019
Asteroid City
2023
Power Rangers
2017
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
2022
Total Recall
2012
Argylle
2024
SuperMansion
2015
Detachment
2011
Geeking Out
2016
The Lincoln Lawyer
2011
Little Miss Sunshine
2006
Capital News
1990
Hart to Heart
2021
Goode Behavior
1996
Clerks
2000
Gary & Mike
2001
Why Him?
2016
Eagle Riders
1996
Pocket Dragon Adventures
1998
The Emmy Awards
1949
The Upside
2019
The Power of the Present
2017
I Know My First Name Is Steven
1989
Animal
2021
Show Me More
2021
Talking with Chris Hardwick
2017
Red Tails
2012
Larry Crowne
2011
Tangles
2026
Jerry & Marge Go Large
2022
Talking Bad
2013
Fallen
2007
Rock of Ages
2012
That Thing You Do!
1996
The One and Only Ivan
2020
Thank God You're Here
2007
Trumbo
2015
In Dubious Battle
2016
The Disaster Artist
2017
The Infiltrator
2016
MADtv
1995
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
2005
Raising Miranda
1988
No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
2013
Amazon Women on the Moon
1987
Love Ranch
2010
The Louie Show
1996
All the Way
2016
The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1987
Batman: Year One
2011
Wakefield
2017
Chili Finger
2026
Everything's Going to Be Great
2025
The Words That Built America
2017
David Blaine: Real or Magic
2013
Alf's Hit Talk Show
2004
Terror Tract
2000
Clean Slate
1994
Big History
2013
Get a Job
2016
Cold Comes the Night
2013
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
2022
Last Flag Flying
2017
Every Act of Life
2018
Barely Legal Pawn
2014
The Writers' Room
2013
An Audience with Adele
2021
Armitage III: Poly Matrix
1996
Erotique
1994
Just For Laughs: Redux
2017
Grendel
—
Dead Space
1991
Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story
1993
Strategic Command
1997
Show of Titles
2021
Leave
2011
The Santa Claus Brothers
2002
Seth Rogen Is the Worst Person in the World
2013
The Concert for Valor
2014
Seeing Other People
2004
Assassination
—
The Story of Soaps
2020
David Blaine: The Magic Way
2020
Holiday Reunion
2003
'Twas the Night
2001
Hard Four
2007
Dead Silence
1991
Time Under Fire
1997
Ancient Caves
2020
Omori
2020
Malcolm in the Middle 2020 Zoom Reunion
2020
The Companion
1994
CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion
2018
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
2026
When We Went MAD!
2025
Illusion
2004
Lone Wolf
—
To Race the Wind
1980
The Big Turnaround
1988
The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime
1996
Übermansion
2013
Loving
1983
Street Corner Justice
1996
Last Chance
1999
Kissing Miranda
1995
Writer's Block
2013
Love Letters
2020
Pink Elephants
2018
Jackpot
—
Corporate Affairs
1990
Sell/Buy/Date
2022
Moscow Mule
2024
Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés
2024
Network
2018
Kramer vs. Kramer: Kenny to Cosmo
2004
Sense of Smell
2014
The Big Thing
—
Experience Yosemite
2022
