
Brian Cox
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Biography
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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Doctor Who

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Daily Show

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Frasier

The Simpsons

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Real Time with Bill Maher

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

The Colbert Report

Carpool Karaoke: The Series

The Graham Norton Show

Top Gear

The Jonathan Ross Show

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Superman: The Animated Series

Blade Runner: Black Lotus

Deadwood

Inspector Morse

Lost

Shetland

X-Men: Days of Future Past

The Bourne Ultimatum

Her

Medici: Masters of Florence

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Sharpe

Braveheart

Penny Dreadful

Sharpe: The Legend

The Great War: The People's Story

War and Peace

The Corruptor

The Campaign

RED 2

RED

Kiss the Girls

The Electric State

X2

Coriolanus

Zodiac

Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"

Good Omens

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Pixels

Poodle Springs

Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster

The Rookie

The Long Kiss Goodnight

The Bourne Identity

Super Troopers

Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius

Succession

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Troy

The Ring

Match Point

Manhunter

Iron Will

Sin

Little Wing

The Bay of Silence

The Bourne Supremacy

Desperate Measures

Red Eye

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

The Independent

That Christmas

Hitler in Colour

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

007: Road to a Million

Separation

Trick 'r Treat

The Slap
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