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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 1, 1946
Place of Birth
Dundee, Scotland, UK
Also Known As
- Brian Denis Cox
- Brian Cox CBE
- برایان کاکس
Brian Cox
3.6 Popularity
Biography
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
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0.0
Capt. John O’Hagan
Super Troopers 3: Winter Soldiers
2026
0.0
Self - Interviewee
The Marbles
2025
0.0
Self — Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
2025
4.0
Sandy
Glenrothan
2025
7.0
Self
VE Day 80
2025
6.1
Frank
The Parenting
2025
🎬
0.0
AMR
AMR: Dying to Change the World
2025
6.5
Popfly (voice)
The Electric State
2025
6.6
Helm Hammerhand (voice)
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024
7.2
Santa (voice)
That Christmas
2024
Credits
🎬
Super Troopers 3: Winter Soldiers
as Capt. John O’Hagan
2026
0.0
The Marbles
as Self - Interviewee
2025
0.0
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
as Self — Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)
2025
0.0
Glenrothan
as Sandy
2025
4.0
VE Day 80
as Self
2025
7.0
The Parenting
as Frank
2025
6.1
🎬
AMR: Dying to Change the World
as AMR
2025
0.0
The Electric State
as Popfly (voice)
2025
6.5
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
2024
6.6
That Christmas
as Santa (voice)
2024
7.2
Unsinkable
as Robert Dodds
2024
10.0
Skelly
as Grandpa
2024
6.2
Little Wing
as Jaan Vari
2024
6.7
007: Road to a Million
as The Controller
2023
7.1
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
as Self
2023
5.3
Made of Money with Brian Cox
2023
0.0
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
as Narrator (voice)
2023
0.0
Prisoner's Daughter
as Max
2023
6.1
Mending the Line
as Ike Fletcher
2023
6.6
Quasi
as Narrator (voice)
2023
5.2
An Interview with Brian Cox
as Himself
2023
0.0
Ooh the Banter!
as Self
2022
0.0
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
2022
7.8
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live
as Presenter
2022
0.0
Bonnie
as Self
2022
5.3
The Independent
as Nick Booker
2022
6.7
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
as Self – Actor
2022
2.7
Ukraine: Answering the Call
as Self
2022
0.0
Piers Morgan Uncensored
as Self
2022
2.3
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
as Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
2021
7.0
Separation
as Rivers
2021
5.7
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
as Narrator (voice)
2021
5.0
The Bay of Silence
as Milton
2020
4.4
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
as John Rebus
2020
0.0
Last Moment of Clarity
as Gilles
2020
5.2
Lawrence After Arabia
as Father (Voice)
2020
4.2
The Last Right
as Father Reilly
2019
6.1
Strange But True
as Bill
2019
6.0
Pretenders
as Henry
2019
5.3
Remember Me
as Shane
2019
6.3
Good Omens
as Death (voice)
2019
8.0
Kubrick by Candlelight
as The Narrator
2018
7.0
Widdershins
as voice
2018
7.3
Succession
as Logan Roy
2018
8.3
Super Troopers 2
as John O'Hagen
2018
5.9
The Etruscan Smile
as Rory MacNeil
2018
6.3
The Russell Howard Hour
as Self
2017
8.0
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
as Self
2017
6.1
🎬
An Evening with Brian Cox
as Himself
2017
0.0
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
as Conrad / Crunch (voice)
2017
8.3
Churchill
as Winston Churchill
2017
6.2
Brian Cox's Russia
as Host
2017
0.0
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
as Narrator
2017
0.0
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
as Self
2016
0.0
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
as Tommy Tilden
2016
6.8
Medici: Masters of Florence
as Bernardo Guadagni
2016
7.7
Morgan
as Jim Bryce
2016
5.8
The Carer
as Sir Michael
2016
6.6
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
as Self
2016
0.0
War and Peace
as Mikhail Kutuzov
2016
7.6
Killing Thyme
as Norman
2015
0.0
Forsaken
as James McCurdy
2015
6.2
Pacific Warriors
as Narrator
2015
6.8
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
6.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
Pixels
as Admiral Porter
2015
5.8
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
2015
6.7
The Slap
as Manolis
2015
5.9
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
The Gospel of John
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
2014
7.0
The Game
as Daddy
2014
7.3
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Scotland In A Day
2014
0.0
The Great War: The People's Story
as Rev. Andrew Clark
2014
6.6
The Anomaly
as Dr. Langham
2014
5.0
Penny Dreadful
as Jared Talbot
2014
7.8
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
as God
2014
7.8
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
Her
as Alan Watts (voice)
2013
7.8
An Adventure in Space and Time
as Sydney Newman
2013
7.7
The Curse of Edgar
as Edgar Hoover
2013
7.2
Anna
as Sebastian
2013
6.5
Believe
as Matt Busby
2013
6.0
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Blumenthal
as Harold Blumenthal
2013
4.0
RED 2
as Ivan
2013
6.5
Shetland
as Magnus Bain
2013
7.5
The Last Leg
as Self
2013
5.7
Bob Servant
as Bob Servant
2013
6.3
Addicted to Pleasure
as Self - Host
2012
0.0
Blood
as Lenny Fairburn
2012
5.9
A Touch of Cloth
as Bill Ball
2012
7.2
The Campaign
as Raymond
2012
5.8
Tooned
as The Mechanic
2012
0.0
All at Sea
as Wally
2012
4.5
The Straits
as Harry Montebello
2012
6.2
🎬
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
as Old Man
2012
0.0
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
2011
5.0
Exit Humanity
as Malcolm Young (voice)
2011
5.2
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
as Glover
2011
5.6
The Jonathan Ross Show
as Self
2011
5.3
The Jonathan Ross Show
as Self - Guest
2011
5.3
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as John Landon
2011
7.3
The Veteran
as Gerry
2011
5.8
Ironclad
as Albany
2011
6.1
The Key Man
as Irving
2011
3.7
Coriolanus
as Menenius
2011
5.8
The Sinking of the Laconia
as Captain Sharp
2011
6.4
RED
as Ivan Simanov
2010
6.7
On Expenses
2010
0.0
As Good As Dead
as Reverend Kalahan
2010
5.0
The Day of the Triffids
as Dennis Masen
2009
5.9
Fantastic Mr. Fox
as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
2009
7.8
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
as Self
2009
0.0
The Good Heart
as Jacques
2009
6.4
The Take
as Ozzy
2009
7.5
Tell-Tale
as Van Doren
2009
5.4
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
as Green Dragon (voice)
2009
7.7
Kings
as King Vesper Abaddon
2009
7.5
Red
as Avery Ludlow
2008
6.2
The Escapist
as Frank Perry
2008
6.2
The Colour of Magic
as Narrator
2008
6.7
Agent Crush
as Spanners (voice)
2008
4.3
The Water Horse
as Old Angus
2007
6.5
The Secret of the Nutcracker
as Drosselmeyer
2007
5.3
Shoot on Sight
as Daniel Tennant
2007
6.1
Trick 'r Treat
as Mr. Kreeg
2007
7.0
Battle for Terra
as General Hemmer (voice)
2007
6.2
The Bourne Ultimatum
as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007
7.4
A Woman in Winter
as Dr. Hunt
2007
7.7
Zodiac
as Melvin Belli
2007
7.5
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
Running with Scissors
as Dr. Finch
2006
5.7
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The Outsiders
as Gabriel
2006
4.0
The Flying Scotsman
as Douglas Baxter
2006
6.6
The One Show
as Self - Guest
2006
4.4
Carry On Ken
as Self
2006
0.0
The Ringer
as Gary Barker
2005
5.7
Match Point
as Alec Hewett
2005
7.4
The Colbert Report
2005
6.9
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
as Joseph Bell
2005
6.1
Red Eye
as Joe Reisert
2005
6.4
Hitler in Colour
as Narrator
2005
7.9
Blue/Orange
as Dr. Robert Smith
2005
5.5
Japan's War in Colour
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2005
8.0
🎬
The Tony Danza Show
as Self
2004
6.1
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
2004
7.1
The Bourne Supremacy
as Ward Abbott
2004
7.3
Troy
as King Agamemnon
2004
7.2
Deadwood
as Jack Langrishe
2004
8.1
Murder by Numbers
as Self
2004
0.0
The Reckoning
as Tobias
2004
6.4
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making 'X2'
2003
7.0
🎬
One Life
2003
0.0
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
as Self
2003
7.3
X2
as William Stryker
2003
7.0
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
2003
6.0
Sin
as Captain Oakes
2003
4.8
25th Hour
as James Brogan
2002
7.3
Adaptation.
as Robert McKee
2002
7.3
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Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World
as Narrator
2002
7.0
Top Gear
as Self
2002
7.5
The Ring
as Richard Morgan
2002
6.7
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2002
6.9
The Biographer
as Michael O'Mara
2002
0.0
The Bourne Identity
as Ward Abbott
2002
7.5
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
as Narrator
2002
0.0
The Rookie
as Jim Morris Sr.
2002
6.8
Bug
as Cyr
2002
7.2
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
as Narrator
2002
0.0
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
as Narrator
2002
6.8
The Affair of the Necklace
as Minister Breteuil
2001
5.5
Richard & Judy
as Self
2001
2.9
L.I.E.
as Big John Harrigan
2001
6.8
Strictly Sinatra
as Chisolm
2001
4.8
Super Troopers
as John O'Hagen
2001
6.6
Inside 'Manhunter'
as Himself
2001
7.0
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
as Anubis (voice)
2000
7.5
Saltwater
as George Beneventi
2000
6.9
Nuremberg
as Herman Wilhelm Goering
2000
7.4
Complicity
as Inspector McDunn
2000
5.6
A Shot at Glory
as Martin Smith
2000
5.6
Mad About Mambo
as Sidney McLoughlin
2000
5.0
The Invention of Dr. Morel
as Dr. Morel
2000
0.0
The Making of 'Rushmore'
as Self
2000
6.0
Longitude
as Lord Morton
2000
7.0
Longitude
as Lord Morton
2000
7.4
🎬
The History of the British Police Force
as Narrator (voice)
1999
0.0
The Minus Man
as Doug
1999
5.4
For Love of the Game
as Gary Wheeler
1999
6.4
The Corruptor
as Sean Wallace
1999
6.1
Rushmore
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
1998
7.4
Poodle Springs
as Clayton Blackstone
1998
5.4
Merchants of Venus
as Uncle Vladimir
1998
5.8
Desperate Measures
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
1998
6.0
The Boxer
as Joe Hamill
1997
6.7
Food for Ravens
as Aneurin Bevan
1997
6.0
Sharpe: The Legend
as Hogan
1997
5.0
Kiss the Girls
as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
1997
6.5
I, Caesar – The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
as Narrator
1997
5.0
The Long Kiss Goodnight
as Dr. Nathan Waldman
1996
6.6
The Glimmer Man
as Mr. Smith
1996
5.4
Superman: The Animated Series
as Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
1996
7.6
Chain Reaction
as Lyman Earl Collier
1996
5.8
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
Witness Against Hitler
as Judge Freisler
1996
6.0
Braveheart
as Argyle Wallace
1995
7.9
Rob Roy
as Killearn
1995
6.7
The Maltese Double Cross
as Narrator (voice)
1994
7.0
The Negotiator
as Charlie King
1994
0.0
Grushko
as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
1994
6.0
Prince of Jutland
as Aethelwine
1994
5.4
Iron Will
as Angus McTeague
1994
6.7
Frasier
as Harry Moon
1993
7.7
Sharpe's Eagle
as Major Michael Hogan
1993
7.1
Sharpe
as Major Hogan
1993
8.0
Sharpe's Rifles
as Major Michael Hogan
1993
6.7
Six Characters in Search of An Author
as The Director
1992
5.5
Macbeth
as Macbeth
1992
0.0
The Big Battalions
as Edward Hoyland
1992
6.0
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Macbeth (voice)
1992
6.3
The Cutter
1992
0.0
The Lost Language of Cranes
as Owen Benjamin
1992
5.9
The Cloning of Joanna May
as Carl May
1992
7.0
Deceptions
as Carlton Heard
1992
0.0
Red Fox
as Geoffrey Harrison
1991
5.0
Performance
as The Director
1991
6.0
Hidden Agenda
as Peter Kerrigan
1990
7.0
Have I Got News for You
as Self
1990
7.1
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
as self
1990
0.0
🎬
Perfect Scoundrels
as Father Amedy
1990
6.0
Secret Weapon
as Andrew Neil
1990
6.0
The Simpsons
as Kostas Becker (voice)
1989
8.0
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
as Self
1989
0.0
The Blasphemers' Banquet
as Rev. Wallace (voice)
1989
0.0
Murder on the Moon
as Voronov
1989
2.8
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
as Voiceover Narrator
1988
7.6
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
5.4
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
as Jack Purves
1988
3.0
Red Dwarf
as The King
1988
8.1
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
as Henrik Ibsen (voice)
1988
0.0
🎬
Acting
1987
0.0
Shoot for the Sun
as Dunny
1987
0.0
French & Saunders
as King Lear
1987
7.5
Inspector Morse
as Michael Steppings
1987
7.8
🎬
Rat in the Skull
as Detective Inspector Nelson
1987
0.0
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
as Narrator
1987
0.0
Home Cooking
as Vic
1986
0.0
🎬
Unnatural Causes
as Vic
1986
5.5
Manhunter
as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
1986
7.0
Florence Nightingale
as Dr. McGregor
1985
5.7
🎬
The Cantor of St Thomas's
as Johann Sebastian Bach
1985
0.0
Pope John Paul II
as Father Góra
1984
6.9
King Lear
as Burgundy
1983
6.5
A Cotswold Death
as Dr. Gillespie
1982
7.0
The Privilege
as Young Laird
1982
0.0
House on the Hill
as Leon Douglas
1981
0.0
Hammer House of Horror
as Chuck
1980
7.1
Dalhousie's Luck
as Dalhousie
1980
0.0
Therese Raquin
as Laurent
1980
5.3
Minder
as Frank
1979
6.8
Question Time
as Self - Panellist
1979
5.5
Out
as McGrath
1978
7.0
The Devil's Crown
as Henry II
1978
7.3
Target
as Billy Voss
1977
6.3
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
as George Simpson
1976
7.0
In Celebration
as Steven Shaw
1975
4.8
Churchill's People
as William Wallace
1974
1.0
Playhouse
as Dalhousie
1974
7.0
The Changeling
as Alsemero
1974
7.0
Van der Valk
as Stefan Szabo
1972
5.8
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Trotsky
1971
6.9
Great Performances
as Self - Narration (voice)
1971
5.8
Play for Today
as Dr. Gillespie
1970
6.3
Manhunt
as Anton
1970
6.5
The Year of the Sex Olympics
as Lasar Opie
1968
4.3
🎬
The Gamblers
as Mickey
1967
0.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Alsemero
1965
5.0
🎬
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
as Nelson
1965
0.0
Theatre 625
as Lasar Opie
1964
7.2
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
as Himself - Panellist
N/A
7.0
🎬
Old Pals
as Jimmy
N/A
0.0
The Planets
N/A
0.0
A Modern Magician
as The Voice
N/A
0.0
🎬
Wittgenstein's Poker
as Bertrand Russell (voice)
N/A
0.0
The Glove
N/A
0.0