Bryan Lee Cranston (born March 7, 1956) is an American actor. After taking minor roles in television, he established himself as a leading actor in both comedic and dramatic works on stage and screen. He has received several accolades, including seven Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, and two Tony Awards, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. Cranston first gained prominence playing Hal in the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (2000–2006), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He gained stardom for his dramatic leading role playing Walter White in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013), for which he won the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times (2008, 2009, 2010, and 2014). He was Emmy-nominated for All the Way (2016) and Curb Your Enthusiasm (2018). Cranston co-developed and appeared in the crime drama series Sneaky Pete (2015–2019), and has also starred in the drama series Your Honor (2020–2023). On stage, he earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his portrayal of President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Broadway play All the Way (2014), a role he reprised in the 2016 HBO film of the same name. He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and his second Tony Award for portraying Howard Beale in the play Network on the West End and Broadway, respectively. Cranston earned nominations for the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor for portraying Dalton Trumbo in the Hollywood blacklist drama Trumbo (2015). Other notable films include Saving Private Ryan (1998), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Drive (2011), Contagion (2011), Argo (2012), Godzilla (2014), The Infiltrator (2016), The Upside (2017), Last Flag Flying (2017), Isle of Dogs (2018), Asteroid City (2023), and The Phoenician Scheme (2025). He has also voiced roles in Madagascar 3 (2012), Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016), and Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Bryan Cranston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2027Tangles — Rob (voice)
• 2026Chili Finger — Dave
• Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair — Hal, Executive Producer
• 2026National Theatre Live: All My Sons — Joe Keller
• 2026The Sheep Detectives — Sebastian (voice)
• 2025Everything's Going to Be Great — Buddy Smart
• 2025The Equilibrium Knight II- The Cast of Shadows — Walter White
• 2025The Phoenician Scheme — Reagan
• The Studio — Griffin Mill
• 2024Argylle — Director Ritter
• 2024Kung Fu Panda 4 — Li (voice)
• 2024Moscow Mule — Bryan Cranston
• 2023Asteroid City — The Host
• 2022Experience Yosemite
• 2022Jerry & Marge Go Large — Jerry Selbee
• 2021Show of Titles — "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
• Home Movie: The Princess Bride — Count Rugen
• 2020Love Letters — Andrew Makepeace Ladd III
• 2020The One and Only Ivan — Mack
• The Stand — The President (voice) (uncredited)
• Your Honor — Michael Desiato, Executive Producer, Director
• 2019El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie — Walt
• 2019The Upside — Phillip Lacasse
• 2018Every Act of Life — John Steinbeck (voice)
• 2018Isle of Dogs — Chief (voice)
• 2018Network — Howard Beale
• The Dangerous Book for Boys — Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
• Just For Laughs: Redux
• 2017Last Flag Flying — Sal Nealon
• Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams — Silas Herrick, Executive Producer
• 2017Power Rangers — Zordon
• 2017The Disaster Artist — Bryan Cranston (uncredited)
• 2017Wakefield — Howard Wakefield
• 2016All the Way — Lyndon B. Johnson, Executive Producer
• 2016Get a Job — Roger Davis
• 2016In Dubious Battle — Sheriff
• 2016Kung Fu Panda 3 — Li (voice)
• 2016The Infiltrator — Robert Mazur, Executive Producer
• 2016Why Him? — Ned Fleming
• Better Call Saul — Walter White
• Sneaky Pete — Vince, Story, Executive Producer, Director, Creator
• SuperMansion — Titanium Rex, Executive Producer, Creator
• 2015Trumbo — Dalton Trumbo
• 2014Barely Legal Pawn — Buzz Jackson
• 2014Godzilla — Joe Brody
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — Richard Sackler
• 2014Sense of Smell — Tyler
• Big History — Narrator
• 2013Cold Comes the Night — Topo
• 2013Seth Rogen Is the Worst Person in the World — Heisenberg
• 2013Writer's Block
• 2013Übermansion — Titanium Rex
• 2012Argo — Jack O'Donnell
• 2012John Carter — Powell
• 2012Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted — Vitaly (voice)
• 2012Red Tails — Colonel William Mortamus
• 2012Rock of Ages — Mayor Mike Whitmore
• 2012Total Recall — Cohaagen
• 2011Batman: Year One — Jim Gordon (voice)
• 2011Contagion — Lyle Haggerty
• 2011Detachment — Mr. Dearden
• 2011Drive — Shannon
• 2011Larry Crowne — Dean Tainot
• 2011Leave — Eliot
• 2011The Lincoln Lawyer — Detective Lankford
• 2010Love Ranch — James Pettis
• Archer — Commander Tony Drake (voice)
• Modern Family — Director
• The Cleveland Show — Dr. Fist (voice)
• Breaking Bad — Walter White, Director, Producer
• 2008The Big Thing — Roberto Montalban
• Fallen — Lucifer
• 2007Hard Four — Lt. Bryce Baxter
• 30 Rock — Ron
• America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions — Narrator (voice)
• Big Day — Director
• 2006Dark Mind — CSE Radio Host
• 2006Little Miss Sunshine — Stan Grossman
• 2006Special Unit — Director
• American Dad! — Bill Publisherman (voice), Mr. Winthrop (voice)
• How I Met Your Mother — Hammond Druthers
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia — Bryan Cranston
• 2005Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon — Buzz Aldrin (voice)
• The Office — Director
• Alf's Hit Talk Show
• 2004Illusion — David
• 2004Seeing Other People — Peter
• 2003Holiday Reunion — Woodrow Snider
• Lilo & Stitch: The Series — Mr. Jamieson (voice), Mr. Jameson (voice)
• 2002The Santa Claus Brothers — Santa Claus (voice)
• 2001'Twas the Night — Nick Wrigley
• Gary & Mike — Mr. Newton (voice)
• Clerks — Various (voice), Helicopter Pilot (voice)
• Curb Your Enthusiasm — Dr. Templeton
• Malcolm in the Middle — Hal, Director
• 2000Terror Tract — Ron Gatley
• Family Guy — Dr. Jewish (voice), Bert (voice), Bert / Arby's Executive (voice), Bert / Judge (voice), Hal (voice), Bryan Cranston
• 1999Last Chance — Lance, Producer, Writer, Director
• From the Earth to the Moon — Buzz Aldrin
• Pocket Dragon Adventures — (voice)
• 1998Saving Private Ryan — War Department Colonel
• The King of Queens — Tim
• V.I.P. — Colt Arrow
• Brooklyn South — Gordon Denton
• 1997Strategic Command — Phil Hertzberg
• 1997Time Under Fire — Braddock (as Brian Cranston)
• Working — Larry Prince
• 3rd Rock from the Sun — Neil Diamond impersonator
• 1996Armitage III: Poly Matrix — Eddie (voice)
• Eagle Riders — Joe Thax
• Goode Behavior — Record Executive
• Sabrina, the Teenage Witch — Witch Lawyer
• 1996Street Corner Justice — Father Brophy
• 1996That Thing You Do! — Virgil "Gus" Grissom
• The Louie Show — Curt Sincic
• The Pretender — Neil Roberts
• 1996The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime — Patrick Dougherty
• Brotherly Love — Russell
• 1995Kissing Miranda — Special Agent Falsey
• Nowhere Man — Norman Wade
• Babylon 5 — Ericsson
• Chicago Hope — Jesus
• 1994Clean Slate — Club Official
• 1994Erotique — Dr. Robert Stern (segment 'Let's Talk About Love')
• 1994The Companion — Alan
• Touched by an Angel — Tom Bryant
• Viper — Garrett Berlin
• Diagnosis: Murder — Walter Mason, Martin Rutgers
• 1993Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story
• 1993The Disappearance of Nora — Police Detective
• The X-Files — Patrick Crump
• Walker, Texas Ranger — Hank
• 1991Dead Silence — Prof. Harris
• 1991Dead Space — Dr. Frank Darden
• Capital News — Congressman Marple
• 1990Corporate Affairs — Darren
• The Flash — Philip Moses
• Baywatch — Tom Logan
• I Know My First Name Is Steven — Officer Dickenson
• Seinfeld — Tim Whatley
• The Simpsons — Stradivarius Cain (voice), Walter White (voice)
• Raising Miranda
• 1988The Big Turnaround — Jim
• 1987Amazon Women on the Moon — Paramedic #1 (segment "Roast Your Loved One") (uncredited)
• Jake and the Fatman
• 1987The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman — Dr. Shepherd
• L.A. Law — James Phillips
• Matlock — Brian Emerson, Dr. Harding Fletcher - Marriage Counselor
• Airwolf — Robert Hollis
• Cover Up
• Murder, She Wrote — Brian East, Parker Foreman, Jerry Wilber
• 1983Loving — Douglas Donovan
• Falcon Crest — Martin Randall
• Hill Street Blues
• 1980To Race the Wind — Quarterback (uncredited)
• CHiPs
• Assassination
• Grendel — King Hrothgar
• Jackpot
• Lone Wolf
• Tightrope! — Executive Producer

Appearances as themselves (60)

• After Hours with James Corden — Self
• Variety & CNN Actors on Actors — Self
• 2025When We Went MAD! — Self
• 2024Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés — Self
• Hot Ones Versus — Self
• Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove — Self
• 2022Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl — Self
• 2022Sell/Buy/Date — Self
• Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg — Self
• Who's Talking to Chris Wallace? — Self
• 2021An Audience with Adele — Self
• Animal — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Hart to Heart — Self
• Show Me More — Self - "Walter White"
• 2020Ancient Caves — Self - Narrator
• 2020David Blaine: The Magic Way — Self
• 2020Malcolm in the Middle 2020 Zoom Reunion — Self
• 2020The Story of Soaps — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• 2018CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion — Self
• 2018Pink Elephants — Self
• Talking with Chris Hardwick — Self
• 2017The Power of the Present — Self
• 2017The Words That Built America — Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
• Geeking Out — Self
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• Hot Ones — Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self - Guest
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• 2014The Concert for Valor — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• 2013David Blaine: Real or Magic — Self
• 2013No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad — Self
• Talking Bad — Self
• The Writers' Room — Self - Actor
• Inside Comedy — Self
• Conan — Self
• Who Do You Think You Are? — Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• Thank God You're Here — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• The Colbert Report — Self (uncredited)
• 2004Kramer vs. Kramer: Kenny to Cosmo — Self
• On Air with Ryan Seacrest — Self
• The Tony Danza Show — Self - Guest
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self, Self - "Mean Tweets"
• Real Time with Bill Maher — Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• Good Day Live — Self
• Hollywood Squares — Self - Panelist
• The View — Self, Self - Guest
• The Daily Show — Self
• MADtv — Self, Self / Mike
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• Entertainment Tonight — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host, Self - Cameo (uncredited)
• The Oscars — Self
• The Emmy Awards — Self