Brian Cox
Brian Denis Cox CBE (born 1 June 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.
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Acted in
The Electric State
2025
as Popfly (voice)
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024
as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
That Christmas
2024
as Santa (voice)
Unsinkable
2024
as Robert Dodds
Skelly
2024
as Grandpa
Little Wing
2024
as Jaan Vari
007: Road to a Million
2023
as The Controller
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
2023
as Self
Made of Money with Brian Cox
2023
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
2023
as Narrator (voice)
Prisoner's Daughter
2023
as Max
Mending the Line
2023
as Ike Fletcher
Quasi
2023
as Narrator (voice)
An Interview with Brian Cox
2023
as Himself
Ooh the Banter!
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
as Self
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live
2022
as Presenter
Bonnie
2022
as Self
The Independent
2022
as Nick Booker
Ukraine: Answering the Call
2022
as Self
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
2021
as Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
Separation
2021
as Rivers
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
2021
as Narrator (voice)
The Bay of Silence
2020
as Milton
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
2020
as John Rebus
Last Moment of Clarity
2020
as Gilles
Lawrence After Arabia
2020
as Father (Voice)
The Last Right
2019
as Father Reilly
Strange but True
2019
as Bill
Pretenders
2019
as Henry
Remember Me
2019
as Shane
Good Omens
2019
as Death (voice)
Kubrick by Candlelight
2018
as The Narrator
Widdershins
2018
as voice
Succession
2018
as Logan Roy
Super Troopers 2
2018
as John O'Hagen
The Etruscan Smile
2018
as Rory MacNeil
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
as Self
An Evening with Brian Cox
2017
as Himself
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
2017
as Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice)
Churchill
2017
as Winston Churchill
Brian Cox's Russia
2017
as Host
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
2017
as Narrator
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
2016
as Self
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016
as Tommy Tilden
Medici: Masters of Florence
2016
as Bernardo Guadagni
Morgan
2016
as Jim Bryce
The Carer
2016
as Sir Michael
War and Peace
2016
as Mikhail Kutuzov
Forsaken
2015
as James McCurdy
Pacific Warriors
2015
as Narrator
Pixels
2015
as Admiral Porter
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
2015
as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
The Slap
2015
as Manolis
The Gospel of John
2014
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
The Game
2014
as Daddy
Scotland In A Day
2014
The Great War: The People's Story
2014
as Rev. Andrew Clark
The Anomaly
2014
as Dr. Langham
Penny Dreadful
2014
as Jared Talbot
Her
2013
as Alan Watts (voice)
An Adventure in Space and Time
2013
as Sydney Newman
The Curse of Edgar
2013
as Edgar Hoover
Anna
2013
as Sebastian
Believe
2013
as Matt Busby
Blumenthal
2013
as Harold Blumenthal
RED 2
2013
as Ivan
Shetland
2013
as Magnus Bain
Bob Servant
2013
as Bob Servant
Addicted to Pleasure
2012
as Self - Host
Blood
2012
as Lenny Fairburn
A Touch of Cloth
2012
A Touch of Cloth
2012
as Bill Ball
The Campaign
2012
as Raymond
Tooned
2012
as The Mechanic
Wide Blue Yonder
2012
as Wally
The Straits
2012
as Harry Montebello
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
2012
as Old Man
Exit Humanity
2011
as Malcolm Young (voice)
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
2011
as Glover
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
as John Landon
The Veteran
2011
as Gerry
Ironclad
2011
as Albany
The Key Man
2011
as Irving
Coriolanus
2011
as Menenius
The Sinking of the Laconia
2011
as Captain Sharp
RED
2010
as Ivan Simanov
On Expenses
2010
As Good As Dead
2010
as Reverend Kalahan
The Day of the Triffids
2009
as Dennis Masen
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
2009
as Self
The Good Heart
2009
as Jacques
The Take
2009
as Ozzy
Tell-Tale
2009
as Van Doren
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
2009
as Green Dragon (voice)
Shoot on Sight
2008
as Daniel Tennant
Red
2008
as Avery Ludlow
The Escapist
2008
as Frank Perry
The Colour of Magic
2008
as Narrator
Agent Crush
2008
as Spanners (voice)
The Water Horse
2007
as Old Angus
The Secret of the Nutcracker
2007
as Drosselmeyer
Trick 'r Treat
2007
as Mr. Kreeg
Battle for Terra
2007
as General Hemmer (voice)
A Woman in Winter
2007
as Dr. Hunt
Zodiac
2007
as Melvin Belli
Running with Scissors
2006
as Dr. Finch
The Outsiders
2006
as Gabriel
The Flying Scotsman
2006
as Douglas Baxter
Carry on Ken
2006
as Self
The Ringer
2005
as Gary Barker
Match Point
2005
as Alec Hewett
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005
as Joseph Bell
Red Eye
2005
as Joe Reisert
Hitler in Colour
2005
as Narrator
Doctor Who
2005
as Sydney Newman
Blue/Orange
2005
as Dr. Robert Smith
Japan's War In Colour
2005
as Narrator
Lost
2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
The Bourne Supremacy
2004
as Ward Abbott
Troy
2004
as King Agamemnon
Deadwood
2004
as Jack Langrishe
Murder by Numbers
2004
as Self
The Reckoning
2004
as Tobias
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2
2003
One Life
2003
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003
as Self
X2
2003
as William Stryker
Sin
2003
as Captain Oakes
25th Hour
2002
as James Brogan
Adaptation.
2002
as Robert McKee
Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World
2002
as Narrator
The Ring
2002
as Richard Morgan
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2002
The Biographer
2002
as Michael O'Mara
The Bourne Identity
2002
as Ward Abbott
The Rookie
2002
as Jim Morris Sr.
Bug
2002
as Cyr
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
2002
as Narrator
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
2002
as Narrator
The Affair of the Necklace
2001
as Minister Breteuil
L.I.E.
2001
as Big John Harrigan
Strictly Sinatra
2001
as Chisolm
Super Troopers
2001
as John O'Hagen
Inside 'Manhunter'
2001
as Himself
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
2000
as Anubis (voice)
Saltwater
2000
as George Beneventi
Nuremberg
2000
as Herman Wilhelm Goering
Complicity
2000
as Inspector McDunn
A Shot at Glory
2000
as Martin Smith
Mad About Mambo
2000
as Sidney McLoughlin
The Invention of Dr. Morel
2000
as Dr. Morel
Longitude
2000
as Lord Morton
Longitude
2000
as Lord Morton
For Love of the Game
1999
as Gary Wheeler
The Corruptor
1999
as Sean Wallace
The Minus Man
1999
as Doug
Rushmore
1998
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
Poodle Springs
1998
as Clayton Blackstone
Merchants of Venus
1998
as Uncle Vladimir
Desperate Measures
1998
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
The Boxer
1997
as Joe Hamill
Food for Ravens
1997
as Aneurin Bevan
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
as Hogan
Kiss the Girls
1997
as Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D.
The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996
as Dr. Nathan Waldman
The Glimmer Man
1996
as Mr. Smith
Superman: The Animated Series
1996
as Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
Chain Reaction
1996
as Lyman Earl Collier
Witness Against Hitler
1996
as Judge Freisler
Braveheart
1995
as Argyle Wallace
Rob Roy
1995
as Killearn
The Maltese Double Cross
1994
as Narrator (voice)
The Negotiator
1994
as Charlie King
Grushko
1994
as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
Royal Deceit
1994
as Aethelwine
Iron Will
1994
as Angus McTeague
Frasier
1993
as Harry Moon
Sharpe's Eagle
1993
as Major Michael Hogan
Sharpe's Rifles
1993
as Major Michael Hogan
Sharpe
1993
as Major Hogan
Six Characters in Search of An Author
1992
as The Director
The Big Battalions
1992
as Edward Hoyland
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
as Macbeth (voice)
The Cutter
1992
The Lost Language of Cranes
1992
as Owen Benjamin
The Cloning of Joanna May
1992
as Carl May
Deceptions
1992
as Carlton Heard
Red Fox
1991
as Geoffrey Harrison
Performance
1991
as The Director
Hidden Agenda
1990
as Peter Kerrigan
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
1990
as self
Perfect Scoundrels
1990
as Father Amedy
Secret Weapon
1990
as Andrew Neil
The Simpsons
1989
as Kostas Becker (voice)
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
1989
as Self
The Blasphemers' Banquet
1989
as Rev. Wallace (voice)
Murder on the Moon
1989
as Voronov
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
1988
as Voiceover Narrator
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988
as Jack Purves
Red Dwarf
1988
as The King
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
as Henrik Ibsen (voice)
Acting
1987
Shoot for the Sun
1987
as Dunny
French & Saunders
1987
as King Lear
Inspector Morse
1987
as Michael Steppings
Rat in the Skull
1987
as Detective Inspector Nelson
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
1987
as Narrator
Home Cooking
1986
as Vic
Unnatural Causes
1986
as Vic
Manhunter
1986
as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
Florence Nightingale
1985
as Dr. McGregor
The Cantor of St Thomas's
1985
as Johann Sebastian Bach
Pope John Paul II
1984
as Father Góra
King Lear
1983
as Burgundy
A Cotswold Death
1982
as Dr. Gillespie
The Privilege
1982
as Young Laird
Hammer House of Horror
1980
as Chuck
Dalhousie's Luck
1980
as Dalhousie
Thérèse Raquin
1980
as Laurent LeClaire
Minder
1979
as Frank
Out
1978
as McGrath
The Devil's Crown
1978
as Henry II of England
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
1976
as George Simpson
In Celebration
1975
as Steven Shaw
The Changeling
1974
as Alsemero
Van der Valk
1972
as Stefan Szabo
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
as Trotsky
Great Performances
1971
as Self
Play for Today
1970
as Dr. Gillespie
Manhunt
1970
as Anton
The Year of the Sex Olympics
1968
as Lasar Opie
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Alsemero
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
1965
as Nelson
The Parenting
A Modern Magician
as The Voice
The Glove
The Planets
Wittgenstein's Poker
as Bertrand Russell (voice)
Glenrothan
as Sandy