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.

Фільмографія

• 2026Glenrothan — Sandy, Director, Producer
• 2026The Sunrise File — Oded Ailam (voice)
• 2026Суперполіцейські 3 — Captain O’Hagan
• 2025AMR: Dying to Change the World — AMR
• 2025Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction — Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)
• 2025Seven Jewish Children — Executive Producer
• 2025Батьківство — Frank
• Декстер: Воскресіння — The New York Ripper
• 2025Електричний штат — Popfly (voice)
• 2024Little Wing — Jaan Vari, Executive Producer
• 2024Skelly — Grandpa
• Unsinkable — Robert Dodds
• 2024Володар перснів: Війна рогіримів — Helm Hammerhand (voice)
• 2024Те Різдво — Santa (voice)
• 007: Road to a Million — The Controller
• 2023Bill Douglas: My Best Friend — Narrator (voice)
• Made of Money with Brian Cox
• 2023Mending the Line — Ike Fletcher
• 2023Prisoner's Daughter — Max
• 2023Quasi — Narrator (voice)
• Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live — Presenter
• Remembers…
• 2022Незалежний — Nick Booker
• 2021Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story — Narrator (voice)
• 2021Separation — Rivers
• Той, хто біжить по лезу: Чорний лотос — Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
• 2020John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues — John Rebus
• 2020Lawrence After Arabia — Father (Voice)
• 2020Затока тиші — Milton
• 2020Момент істини — Gilles
• 2019Pretenders — Henry
• 2019Remember Me — Shane
• 2019The Last Right — Father Reilly
• 2019Дивно, але правда — Bill
• Добрі передвісники — Death (voice)
• 2018Kubrick by Candlelight — The Narrator
• 2018The Etruscan Smile — Rory MacNeil
• 2018Widdershins — voice
• Спадкоємці — Logan Roy
• 2018Суперполіцейські 2 — Captain O'Hagan
• 2017Bob the Builder: Mega Machines — Conrad / Crunch (voice)
• Brian Cox's Russia — Host
• 2017Churchill — Winston Churchill
• 2017Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation — Narrator
• 2016The Carer — Sir Michael
• Війна і мир — Mikhail Kutuzov
• 2016Демон всередині — Tommy Tilden
• Медічі: Повелителі Флоренції — Bernardo Guadagni
• 2016Морґан — Jim Bryce
• 2015Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace — Andrew Carnegie (voice)
• 2015Killing Thyme — Norman
• 2015Pacific Warriors — Narrator
• The Slap — Manolis
• 2015Покинутий — James McCurdy
• 2015Пікселі — Admiral Porter
• 2014Scotland In A Day
• 2014The Anomaly — Dr. Langham
• 2014The Gospel of John — Narrator (voice) – King James Version
• The Great War: The People's Story — Rev. Andrew Clark
• Бульварні жахіття — Jared Talbot
• Гра — Daddy
• Події минулого тижня з Джоном Олівером — God
• 2013An Adventure in Space and Time — Sydney Newman
• 2013Anna — Sebastian
• 2013Believe — Matt Busby
• 2013Blumenthal — Harold Blumenthal
• Bob Servant — Bob Servant
• 2013The Curse of Edgar — Edgar Hoover
• 2013Вона — Alan Watts (voice)
• 2013РЕД 2 — Ivan
• Шетланд — Magnus Bain
• A Touch of Cloth — Bill Ball
• 2012All at Sea — Wally
• 2012Blood — Lenny Fairburn
• 2012I Missed My Mother's Funeral — Old Man
• The Straits — Harry Montebello
• Tooned — The Mechanic
• 2012Брудна кампанія за чесні вибори — Raymond
• 2011Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster — Glover
• 2011Exit Humanity — Malcolm Young (voice)
• 2011The Key Man — Irving
• The Sinking of the Laconia — Captain Sharp
• 2011The Veteran — Gerry
• 2011Залізний лицар — Albany
• 2011Коріолан — Menenius
• 2011Повстання планети мавп — John Landon
• 2010As Good As Dead — Reverand Kalahan
• 2010On Expenses — Michael Martin
• 2010The Color of Magic 2in1 — Vypravěč
• 2010РЕД — Ivan Simanov
• Kings — King Vesper Abaddon
• 2009Tell-Tale — Van Doren
• The Day of the Triffids — Dennis Masen
• 2009The Good Heart — Jacques
• The Take — Ozzy
• 2009Незрівнянний містер Фокс — Action 12 Reporter (voice)
• 2009Скубі-Ду та меч самурая — Green Dragon (voice)
• 2008Agent Crush — Spanners (voice)
• 2008Red — Avery Ludlow, Associate Producer
• 2008The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1 — Narrator
• 2008The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2 — Narrator
• 2008The Escapist — Frank Perry, Executive Producer
• Колір чаклунства — Narrator
• 2007A Woman in Winter — Dr. Hunt
• M.I. High — Voice of the Mastermind
• 2007Shoot on Sight — Daniel Tennant
• 2007The Secret of the Nutcracker — Drosselmeyer
• 2007Битва за планету Терра — General Hemmer (voice)
• 2007Гаманець або життя — Mr. Kreeg
• 2007Зодіак — Melvin Belli
• 2007Мій домашній динозавр — Old Angus
• 2007Ультиматум Борна — Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2006The Flying Scotsman — Douglas Baxter
• 2006The Outsiders — Gabriel
• 2006Біг з ножицями — Dr. Finch
• 2005Blue/Orange — Dr. Robert Smith
• 2005Hitler in Colour — Narrator
• The Colbert Report
• 2005The Ringer — Gary Barker
• 2005The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle — Joseph Bell
• 2005Матч-пойнт — Alec Hewett
• 2005Нічний рейс — Joe Reisert
• 2004The Reckoning — Tobias
• 2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson — Other Voices (voice)
• Дедвуд — Jack Langrishe
• Міс Марпл — Lewis Serrocold
• 2004Перевага Борна — Ward Abbott
• 2004Троя — Agamemnon
• One Life
• 2003Sin — Captain Oakes
• 2003X2 — William Stryker
• 200225-та година — James Brogan
• 2002Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World — Narrator
• 2002Bug — Cyr
• 2002Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch — Narrator
• Masters of Darkness — Narrator
• 2002Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh — Narrator
• 2002Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon — Narrator
• 2002The Biographer — Michael O'Mara
• 2002Ідентифікація Борна — Ward Abbott
• 2002Адаптація. — Robert McKee
• 2002Дзвінок — Richard Morgan
• 2002Новачок — Jim Morris Sr.
• 2001L.I.E. — Big John Harrigan
• 2001Strictly Sinatra — Chisolm
• 2001The Affair of the Necklace — Minister Breteuil
• 2001Суперполіцейські — Captain O'Hagen
• 2000A Shot at Glory — Martin Smith
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force — Anubis (voice)
• 2000Complicity — Inspector McDunn
• 2000Longitude — Lord Morton
• Longitude — Lord Morton
• 2000Mad About Mambo — Sidney McLoughlin
• Nuremberg — Herman Wilhelm Goering
• 2000Saltwater — George Beneventi
• 2000The Invention of Dr. Morel — Dr. Morel
• 1999The History of the British Police Force — Narrator (voice)
• 1999The Minus Man — Doug
• 1999Заради любові до гри — Gary Wheeler
• 1999Корупціонер — Sean Wallace
• 1998Battle of the Clans — Narrator
• 1998Merchants of Venus — Uncle Vladimir
• 1998Poodle Springs — Clayton Blackstone
• 1998Відчайдушні заходи — Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
• 1998Рашмор — Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
• 1997Food for Ravens — Aneurin Bevan
• I, Caesar – The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire — Narrator
• 1997Sharpe: The Legend — Hogan
• 1997Боксер — Joe Hamill
• В'язниця «Оz» — Director
• 1997Цілуючи дівчат — Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
• 1996Witness Against Hitler — Judge Freisler
• 1996Довгий поцілунок на добраніч — Dr. Nathan Waldman
• 1996Ланцюгова реакція — Lyman Earl Collier
• 1996Людина-блискавка — Mr. Smith
• Супермен — Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
• 1995Роб Рой — Killearn
• 1995Хоробре серце — Argyle Wallace
• 1994Grushko — Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
• 1994Iron Will — Angus McTeague
• 1994Prince of Jutland — Aethelwine
• 1994The Maltese Double Cross — Narrator (voice)
• 1994The Negotiator — Charlie King
• 1993Sharpe's Eagle — Major Michael Hogan
• 1993Sharpe's Rifles — Major Michael Hogan
• Стрілки Шарпа — Major Hogan
• Фрейзер — Harry Moon
• 1992Deceptions — Carlton Heard
• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales — Macbeth (voice)
• 1992Six Characters in Search of An Author — The Director
• The Big Battalions — Edward Hoyland
• The Cloning of Joanna May — Carl May
• 1992The Cutter
• 1992The Lost Language of Cranes — Owen Benjamin
• Performance — The Director
• 1991Red Fox — Geoffrey Harrison
• 1990Hidden Agenda — Peter Kerrigan
• Perfect Scoundrels — Father Amedy
• 1990Secret Weapon — Andrew Neil
• 1989Murder on the Moon — Voronov
• 1989The Blasphemers' Banquet — Rev. Wallace (voice)
• Сімпсони — Kostas Becker (voice)
• 1988Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun — Jack Purves
• 1988Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky — Voiceover Narrator
• The Modern World: Ten Great Writers — Henrik Ibsen (voice)
• Червоний Карлик — The King
• Acting
• French & Saunders — King Lear
• 1987Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People — Narrator
• Inspector Morse — Michael Steppings
• 1987Rat in the Skull — Detective Inspector Nelson
• 1987Shoot for the Sun — Dunny
• 1986Home Cooking — Vic
• 1986Manhunter — Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
• Unnatural Causes — Vic
• 1985Florence Nightingale — Dr. McGregor
• 1985The Cantor of St Thomas's — Johann Sebastian Bach
• 1984Pope John Paul II — Father Góra
• 1983King Lear — Burgundy
• 1982A Cotswold Death — Dr. Gillespie
• 1982The Privilege — Young Laird
• House on the Hill — Leon Douglas
• 1980Dalhousie's Luck — Dalhousie
• Hammer House of Horror — Chuck
• Therese Raquin — Laurent LeClaire
• Minder — Frank
• Out — McGrath
• The Devil's Crown — Henry II
• Target — Billy Voss
• 1976Clay, Smeddum and Greenden — George Simpson
• 1975In Celebration — Steven Shaw
• Shades of Greene — Harry
• The Master of Ballantrae — Henry Durie
• Churchill's People — William Wallace
• Playhouse — Dalhousie
• 1974The Changeling — Alsemero
• Van der Valk — Stefan Szabo
• 1971Nicholas and Alexandra — Trotsky
• Stage 2 — Hastings
• Manhunt — Anton
• Play for Today — Dr. Gillespie
• 1968The Year of the Sex Olympics — Lasar Opie
• ITV Playhouse — Apeman
• The Gamblers — Mickey
• 1965A Knight in Tarnished Armour — Nelson
• BBC Play of the Month — Alsemero
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Josef Stalin, Rod
• The Wednesday Play — Nelson
• Theatre 625 — Lasar Opie
• A Modern Magician — The Voice
• Old Pals — Jimmy
• Super Troopers 4 — Captain O'Hagan
• The Glove
• The Planets
• Wittgenstein's Poker — Bertrand Russell (voice)

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (49)

• 2025The Marbles — Self - Interviewee
• VE Day 80 — Self
• 2023An Interview with Brian Cox — Himself
• Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius — Self
• 2022Bonnie — Self
• 2022Ooh the Banter! — Self
• 2022Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba — Self
• Piers Morgan Uncensored — Self
• Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg — Self – Actor, Self - Actor
• 2022Ukraine: Answering the Call — Self
• Amol Rajan Interviews — Self - Interviewed Guest
• 2017An Evening with Brian Cox — Himself
• Carpool Karaoke: Автокараоке — Self
• The Russell Howard Hour — Self
• 2016Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light — Self
• 2016Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC — Self
• Пізнє шоу зі Стівеном Кольбером — Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• Нічне шоу з Джиммі Феллоном — Self
• Пізньої ночі з Сетом Маєрсом — Self
• The Last Leg — Self
• Addicted to Pleasure — Self - Host
• Celebrity Antiques Road Trip — Self - Participant
• The Jonathan Ross Show — Self, Self - Guest
• 2009Brian Cox's Jute Journey — Self
• Шоу Ґрема Нортона — Self
• 2006Carry On Ken — Self
• The One Show — Self - Guest
• 2005Japan's War in Colour — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2004Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man? — Self
• 2004Murder by Numbers — Self
• Шоу Тоні Данса — Self
• 2003The Evolution of an American Filmmaker — Self
• 2003The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2 — Self
• В даний час з Біллом Маром — Self
• Джиммі Кіммел наживо! — Self - Guest
• 2002The Trials of Henry Kissinger — Self
• Топ Ґір — Self
• 2001Inside 'Manhunter' — Himself
• Richard & Judy — Self
• 2000The Making of 'Rushmore' — Self
• Щоденне шоу з Тревором Ноа — Self
• Have I Got News for You — Self
• 1990The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' — self
• 1989Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy — Self
• Наживо з Келлі та Раяном — Self - Guest
• Question Time — Self - Panellist
• Great Performances — Self - Narration (voice)
• Have I Got a Bit More News for You — Himself - Panellist