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Brian Cox
Known for: ActingBrian 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.
Filmography 125
Succession
as Logan Roy 
Dexter: Resurrection
as The New York Ripper 
RED
as Ivan Simanov 
The Electric State
as Popfly (voice) 
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as John Landon 
Troy
as Agamemnon 
Fantastic Mr. Fox
as Action 12 Reporter (voice) 
RED 2
as Ivan 
The Bourne Identity
as Ward Abbott 
War and Peace
as Mikhail Kutuzov 
Braveheart
as Argyle Wallace 
Pixels
as Admiral Porter 
Trick 'r Treat
as Mr. Kreeg 
Zodiac
as Melvin Belli 
The Bourne Supremacy
as Ward Abbott 
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
as Helm Hammerhand (voice) 
The Ring
as Richard Morgan 
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
as Tommy Tilden 
Super Troopers 3
as Captain O’Hagan 
Nuremberg
as Herman Wilhelm Goering 
Kiss the Girls
as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD 
The Slap
as Manolis 
The Colour of Magic
as Narrator 
Chain Reaction
as Lyman Earl Collier 
That Christmas
as Santa (voice) 
The Long Kiss Goodnight
as Dr. Nathan Waldman 
The Boxer
as Joe Hamill 
The Game
as Daddy 
Red Eye
as Joe Reisert 
Match Point
as Alec Hewett 
The Parenting
as Frank 
The Take
as Ozzy 
Super Troopers
as Captain O'Hagen 
The Straits
as Harry Montebello 
The Campaign
as Raymond 
007: Road to a Million
as The Controller 
The Water Horse
as Old Angus 
25th Hour
as James Brogan 
Super Troopers 2
as Captain O'Hagan 
Rushmore
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim 
The Corruptor
as Sean Wallace 
Morgan
as Jim Bryce 
The Independent
as Nick Booker 
The Rookie
as Jim Morris Sr. 
Battle for Terra
as General Hemmer (voice) 
Coriolanus
as Menenius 
The Day of the Triffids
as Dennis Masen 
The Glimmer Man
as Mr. Smith 
The Sinking of the Laconia
as Captain Sharp 
Ironclad
as Albany 
For Love of the Game
as Gary Wheeler 
Strange but True
as Bill 
The Bay of Silence
as Milton 
Forsaken
as James McCurdy 
Last Moment of Clarity
as Gilles 
Anna
as Sebastian 
Desperate Measures
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy 
Bob Servant
as Bob Servant 
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
as Green Dragon (voice) 
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
as Self 
Rob Roy
as Killearn 
Iron Will
as Angus McTeague 
Prisoner's Daughter
as Max 
Running with Scissors
as Dr. Finch 
Therese Raquin
as Laurent LeClaire 
The Anomaly
as Dr. Langham 
The Ringer
as Gary Barker 
The Minus Man
as Doug 
As Good As Dead
as Reverand Kalahan 
The Flying Scotsman
as Douglas Baxter 
The Escapist
as Frank Perry 
Mending the Line
as Ike Fletcher 
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
as Glover 
Glenrothan
as Sandy 
The Affair of the Necklace
as Minister Breteuil 
Remember Me
as Shane 
Separation
as Rivers 
L.I.E.
as Big John Harrigan 
An Adventure in Space and Time
as Sydney Newman 
Churchill
as Winston Churchill 
Red
as Avery Ludlow 
Little Wing
as Jaan Vari 
Quasi
as Narrator (voice) 
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines
as Conrad / Crunch (voice) 
Tell-Tale
as Van Doren 
The Reckoning
as Tobias 
The Big Battalions
as Edward Hoyland 
The Good Heart
as Jacques 
The Etruscan Smile
as Rory MacNeil 
Hidden Agenda
as Peter Kerrigan 
Complicity
as Inspector McDunn 
Blood
as Lenny Fairburn 
Pope John Paul II
as Father Góra 
The Carer
as Sir Michael 
The Veteran
as Gerry 
Bonnie
as Self 
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice) 
Skelly
as Grandpa 
Prince of Jutland
as Aethelwine 
Killing Thyme
as Norman 
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
as Jack Purves 
The Last Right
as Father Reilly 
A Shot at Glory
as Martin Smith 
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
as Self 
Agent Crush
as Spanners (voice) 
The Key Man
as Irving 
Believe
as Matt Busby 
The Secret of the Nutcracker
as Drosselmeyer 
Exit Humanity
as Malcolm Young (voice) 
The Year of the Sex Olympics
as Lasar Opie 
Mad About Mambo
as Sidney McLoughlin 
Lawrence After Arabia
as Father (Voice) 
Pacific Warriors
as Narrator 
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
as Narrator (voice) 
The Gospel of John
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version 
All at Sea
as Wally 
The Negotiator
as Charlie King 
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
as Joseph Bell 
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
as Voiceover Narrator 
Saltwater
as George Beneventi 
Florence Nightingale
as Dr. McGregor 
Pretenders
as Henry 
X2
as William Stryker