Brian Cox
Acteur·rice
1 juin 1946 · 80 years old
Dundee, Scotland, UK
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.
Known for
As an actor
A Modern Magician
The Voice
The Glove
The Planets
Wittgenstein's Poker
Bertrand Russell (voice)
Old Pals
Jimmy
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Himself - Panellist
Glenrothan
2026 · Sandy
Super Troopers 3
2026 · Capt. John O’Hagan
The Sunrise File
2026 · Oded Ailam (voice)
The Parenting
2025 · Frank
The Electric State
2025 · Popfly (voice)
The Marbles
2025 · Self - Interviewee
AMR: Dying to Change the World
2025 · AMR
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
2025 · Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)
VE Day 80
2025 · Self
Dexter: Resurrection
2025 · New York Ripper
Little Wing
2024 · Jaan Vari
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024 · Helm Hammerhand (voice)
That Christmas
2024 · Santa (voice)
Skelly
2024 · Grandpa
Unsinkable
2024 · Robert Dodds
An Interview with Brian Cox
2023 · Himself
Quasi
2023 · Narrator (voice)
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
2023 · Narrator (voice)
Mending the Line
2023 · Ike Fletcher
Prisoner's Daughter
2023 · Max
007: Road to a Million
2023 · The Controller
Made of Money with Brian Cox
2023
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
2023 · Self
The Independent
2022 · Nick Booker
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022 · Self
Ukraine: Answering the Call
2022 · Self
Bonnie
2022 · Self
Ooh the Banter!
2022 · Self
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live
2022 · Presenter
Piers Morgan Uncensored
2022 · Self
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022 · Self – Actor, Self - Actor
Remembers…
2022
Separation
2021 · Rivers
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
2021 · Narrator (voice)
The Simpsons: A Serious Flanders
2021 · Kostas Becker (voice)
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
2021 · Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
Amol Rajan Interviews
2021 · Self - Interviewed Guest
Last Moment of Clarity
2020 · Gilles
The Bay of Silence
2020 · Milton
Lawrence After Arabia
2020 · Father (Voice)
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
2020 · John Rebus
Pretenders
2019 · Henry
Strange but True
2019 · Bill
Remember Me
2019 · Shane
The Last Right
2019 · Father Reilly
Good Omens
2019 · Death (voice)
Super Troopers 2
2018 · John O'Hagen
The Etruscan Smile
2018 · Rory MacNeil
Kubrick by Candlelight
2018 · The Narrator
Widdershins
2018 · voice
Succession
2018 · Logan Roy
Churchill
2017 · Winston Churchill
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
2017 · Narrator
Bob Constructorul: Mega Mașini
2017 · Conrad / Crunch (voice)
An Evening with Brian Cox
2017 · Himself
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017 · Self
Brian Cox's Russia
2017 · Host
The Russell Howard Hour
2017 · Self
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
2016 · Self
The Carer
2016 · Sir Michael
Morgan
2016 · Jim Bryce
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016 · Tommy Tilden
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016 · Self
War and Peace
2016 · Mikhail Kutuzov
Medici: Masters of Florence
2016 · Bernardo Guadagni
Pixels
2015 · Admiral Porter
Forsaken
2015 · James McCurdy
Pacific Warriors
2015 · Narrator
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
2015 · Andrew Carnegie (voice)
Killing Thyme
2015 · Norman
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Guest, Self
The Slap
2015 · Manolis
The Anomaly
2014 · Dr. Langham
The Gospel of John
2014 · Narrator (voice) – King James Version
Scotland In A Day
2014
The Game
2014 · Daddy
Penny Dreadful
2014 · Jared Talbot
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self
The Great War: The People's Story
2014 · Rev. Andrew Clark
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Self
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014 · God
Her
2013 · Alan Watts (voice)
An Adventure in Space and Time
2013 · Sydney Newman
The Curse of Edgar
2013 · Edgar Hoover
Anna
2013 · Sebastian
Believe
2013 · Matt Busby
Blumenthal
2013 · Harold Blumenthal
RED 2
2013 · Ivan
Shetland
2013 · Magnus Bain
Bob Servant
2013 · Bob Servant
The Last Leg
2013 · Self
The Campaign
2012 · Raymond
Blood
2012 · Lenny Fairburn
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
2012 · Old Man
All at Sea
2012 · Wally
The Straits
2012 · Harry Montebello
A Touch of Cloth
2012 · Bill Ball
Tooned
2012 · The Mechanic
Addicted to Pleasure
2012 · Self - Host
Ironclad
2011 · Albany
The Veteran
2011 · Gerry
Coriolanus
2011 · Menenius
The Key Man
2011 · Irving
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011 · John Landon
Exit Humanity
2011 · Malcolm Young (voice)
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
2011 · Glover
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011 · Self, Self - Guest
The Sinking of the Laconia
2011 · Captain Sharp
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011 · Self - Participant
As Good As Dead
2010 · Reverend Kalahan
RED
2010 · Ivan Simanov
On Expenses
2010 · Michael Martin
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009 · Action 12 Reporter (voice)
The Good Heart
2009 · Jacques
Tell-Tale
2009 · Van Doren
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
2009 · Green Dragon (voice)
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
2009 · Self
The Take
2009 · Ozzy
The Day of the Triffids
2009 · Dennis Masen
Kings
2009 · King Vesper Abaddon
Red
2008 · Avery Ludlow
The Escapist
2008 · Frank Perry
Agent Crush
2008 · Spanners (voice)
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
2008 · Narrator
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
2008 · Narrator
The Colour of Magic
2008 · Narrator
Zodiac
2007 · Melvin Belli
Trick 'r Treat
2007 · Mr. Kreeg
Battle for Terra
2007 · General Hemmer (voice)
The Secret of the Nutcracker
2007 · Drosselmeyer
The Water Horse
2007 · Old Angus
A Woman in Winter
2007 · Dr. Hunt
Shoot on Sight
2007 · Daniel Tennant
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007 · Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Self
M.I. High
2007 · Voice of the Mastermind
Running with Scissors
2006 · Dr. Finch
The Flying Scotsman
2006 · Douglas Baxter
The Outsiders
2006 · Gabriel
Carry On Ken
2006 · Self
The One Show
2006 · Self - Guest
Red Eye
2005 · Joe Reisert
The Ringer
2005 · Gary Barker
Japan's War in Colour
2005 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Hitler in Colour
2005 · Narrator
Match Point
2005 · Alec Hewett
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005 · Joseph Bell
Blue/Orange
2005 · Dr. Robert Smith
The Colbert Report
2005
Troy
2004 · Agamemnon
The Bourne Supremacy
2004 · Ward Abbott
The Reckoning
2004 · Tobias
Murder by Numbers
2004 · Self
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004 · Other Voices (voice)
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
2004 · Self
Deadwood
2004 · Jack Langrishe
The Tony Danza Show
2004 · Self
X2
2003 · William Stryker
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003 · Self
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
2003 · Self
Sin
2003 · Captain Oakes
One Life
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self - Guest
The Ring
2002 · Richard Morgan
25th Hour
2002 · James Brogan
The Bourne Identity
2002 · Ward Abbott
Adaptation.
2002 · Robert McKee
Bug
2002 · Cyr
The Rookie
2002 · Jim Morris Sr.
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2002 · Self
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
2002 · Narrator
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
2002 · Narrator
Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World
2002 · Narrator
The Biographer
2002 · Michael O'Mara
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
2002 · Narrator
Top Gear
2002 · Self
Masters of Darkness
2002 · Narrator
Super Troopers
2001 · Captain O'Hagen
L.I.E.
2001 · Big John Harrigan
The Affair of the Necklace
2001 · Minister Breteuil
Strictly Sinatra
2001 · Chisolm
Inside 'Manhunter'
2001 · Himself
Richard & Judy
2001 · Self
Complicity
2000 · Inspector McDunn
Mad About Mambo
2000 · Sidney McLoughlin
Longitude
2000 · Lord Morton
Saltwater
2000 · George Beneventi
A Shot at Glory
2000 · Martin Smith
The Invention of Dr. Morel
2000 · Dr. Morel
The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000 · Self
Nuremberg
2000 · Herman Wilhelm Goering
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
2000 · Anubis (voice)
Longitude
2000 · Lord Morton
The Minus Man
1999 · Doug
The Corruptor
1999 · Sean Wallace
For Love of the Game
1999 · Gary Wheeler
The History of the British Police Force
1999 · Narrator (voice)
Poodle Springs
1998 · Clayton Blackstone
Rushmore
1998 · Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
Desperate Measures
1998 · Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
Merchants of Venus
1998 · Uncle Vladimir
Battle of the Clans
1998 · Narrator
Kiss the Girls
1997 · Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
The Boxer
1997 · Joe Hamill
Sharpe: The Legend
1997 · Hogan
Food for Ravens
1997 · Aneurin Bevan
I, Caesar – The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
1997 · Narrator
The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996 · Dr. Nathan Waldman
Chain Reaction
1996 · Lyman Earl Collier
The Glimmer Man
1996 · Mr. Smith
Witness Against Hitler
1996 · Judge Freisler
Superman: The Animated Series
1996 · Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
The Daily Show
1996 · Self
Braveheart
1995 · Argyle Wallace
Rob Roy
1995 · Killearn
Iron Will
1994 · Angus McTeague
The Maltese Double Cross
1994 · Narrator (voice)
Prince of Jutland
1994 · Aethelwine
Grushko
1994 · Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
The Negotiator
1994 · Charlie King
Sharpe's Eagle
1993 · Major Michael Hogan
Sharpe's Rifles
1993 · Major Michael Hogan
Sharpe
1993 · Major Hogan
Frasier
1993 · Harry Moon
The Lost Language of Cranes
1992 · Owen Benjamin
The Cloning of Joanna May
1992 · Carl May
The Cutter
1992
Six Characters in Search of An Author
1992 · The Director
Deceptions
1992 · Carlton Heard
The Big Battalions
1992 · Edward Hoyland
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992 · Macbeth (voice)
The Cloning of Joanna May
1992 · Carl May
Red Fox
1991 · Geoffrey Harrison
Performance
1991 · The Director
Hidden Agenda
1990 · Peter Kerrigan
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
1990 · self
Secret Weapon
1990 · Andrew Neil
Perfect Scoundrels
1990 · Father Amedy
Have I Got News for You
1990 · Self
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
1989 · Self
The Blasphemers' Banquet
1989 · Rev. Wallace (voice)
Murder on the Moon
1989 · Voronov
The Simpsons
1989 · Kostas Becker (voice)
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
1988 · Voiceover Narrator
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988 · Jack Purves
Red Dwarf
1988 · The King
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Self - Guest
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988 · Henrik Ibsen (voice)
Shoot for the Sun
1987 · Dunny
Rat in the Skull
1987 · Detective Inspector Nelson
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
1987 · Narrator
French & Saunders
1987 · King Lear
Inspector Morse
1987 · Michael Steppings
Acting
1987
Manhunter
1986 · Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
Home Cooking
1986 · Vic
Unnatural Causes
1986 · Vic
Florence Nightingale
1985 · Dr. McGregor
The Cantor of St Thomas's
1985 · Johann Sebastian Bach
Pope John Paul II
1984 · Father Góra
King Lear
1983 · Burgundy
The Privilege
1982 · Young Laird
A Cotswold Death
1982 · Dr. Gillespie
House on the Hill
1981 · Leon Douglas
Dalhousie's Luck
1980 · Dalhousie
Hammer House of Horror
1980 · Chuck
Therese Raquin
1980 · Laurent LeClaire
Question Time
1979 · Self - Panellist
Minder
1979 · Frank
Out
1978 · McGrath
The Devil's Crown
1978 · Henry II
Target
1977 · Billy Voss
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
1976 · George Simpson
In Celebration
1975 · Steven Shaw
Shades of Greene
1975 · Harry
The Changeling
1974 · Alsemero
Playhouse
1974 · Dalhousie
Churchill's People
1974 · William Wallace
Van der Valk
1972 · Stefan Szabo
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971 · Trotsky
Great Performances
1971 · Self - Narration (voice)
Stage 2
1971 · Hastings
Manhunt
1970 · Anton
Play for Today
1970 · Dr. Gillespie
The Year of the Sex Olympics
1968 · Lasar Opie
The Gamblers
1967 · Mickey
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Apeman
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
1965 · Nelson
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Alsemero
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Josef Stalin, Rod
Theatre 625
1964 · Lasar Opie
The Wednesday Play
1964 · Nelson
