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.
196 movies · 100 shows
The Sunrise File
2026·0.0
Glenrothan
2026·6.8
The Marbles
2025·0.0
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
2025·0.0
The Parenting
2025·6.0
AMR: Dying to Change the World
2025·0.0
The Electric State
2025·6.5
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024·6.5
That Christmas
2024·7.1
Skelly
2024·6.2
Little Wing
2024·6.6
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
2023·0.0
Prisoner's Daughter
2023·6.2
Mending the Line
2023·6.6
Quasi
2023·5.1
An Interview with Brian Cox
2023·0.0
Ooh the Banter!
2022·0.0
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022·7.8
Bonnie
2022·5.3
The Independent
2022·6.5
Ukraine: Answering the Call
2022·0.0
The Simpsons: A Serious Flanders
2021·10.0
Separation
2021·5.6
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
2021·5.0
The Bay of Silence
2020·4.4
The Craft Behind Succession
2020·9.0
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
2020·0.0
Last Moment of Clarity
2020·5.2
Lawrence After Arabia
2020·4.2
The Last Right
2019·6.1
Strange but True
2019·6.0
Pretenders
2019·5.2
Remember Me
2019·6.3
Kubrick by Candlelight
2018·7.0
Widdershins
2018·7.5
Super Troopers 2
2018·5.9
The Etruscan Smile
2018·6.3
An Evening with Brian Cox
2017·0.0
Bob Constructorul: Mega Mașini
2017·8.3
Churchill
2017·6.2
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
2017·0.0
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
2016·0.0
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016·6.8
Morgan
2016·5.8
The Carer
2016·6.6
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016·0.0
Killing Thyme
2015·7.0
Forsaken
2015·6.2
Pacific Warriors
2015·6.8
Pixels
2015·5.8
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
2015·6.7
The Gospel of John
2014·7.0
Scotland In A Day
2014·0.0
The Anomaly
2014·5.0
Her
2013·7.8
An Adventure in Space and Time
2013·7.7
The Curse of Edgar
2013·7.2
Anna
2013·6.5
Believe
2013·6.1
Blumenthal
2013·1.0
RED 2
2013·6.5
Blood
2012·5.9
The Campaign
2012·5.8
All at Sea
2012·4.5
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
2012·0.0
Exit Humanity
2011·5.2
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
2011·5.6
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011·7.3
The Veteran
2011·5.9
Ironclad
2011·6.2
The Key Man
2011·3.7
Coriolanus
2011·5.8
RED
2010·6.7
On Expenses
2010·0.0
As Good As Dead
2010·5.0
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009·7.8
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
2009·0.0
The Good Heart
2009·6.4
Tell-Tale
2009·5.3
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
2009·7.7
Red
2008·6.3
The Escapist
2008·6.2
Agent Crush
2008·4.8
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
2008·0.0
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
2008·0.0
The Water Horse
2007·6.5
The Secret of the Nutcracker
2007·5.3
Shoot on Sight
2007·6.2
Trick 'r Treat
2007·7.0
Battle for Terra
2007·6.1
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007·7.4
A Woman in Winter
2007·7.5
Zodiac
2007·7.5
Running with Scissors
2006·5.8
The Outsiders
2006·4.0
The Flying Scotsman
2006·6.5
Carry On Ken
2006·0.0
The Ringer
2005·5.7
Match Point
2005·7.4
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005·6.6
Red Eye
2005·6.4
Hitler in Colour
2005·7.9
Blue/Orange
2005·6.7
Japan's War in Colour
2005·8.0
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
2004·2.0
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004·7.2
The Bourne Supremacy
2004·7.3
Troy
2004·7.2
Murder by Numbers
2004·7.0
The Reckoning
2004·6.4
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
2003·7.0
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003·7.3
X2
2003·7.0
Sin
2003·4.8
25th Hour
2002·7.3
Adaptation.
2002·7.3
Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World
2002·7.0
The Ring
2002·6.7
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2002·6.9
The Biographer
2002·9.0
The Bourne Identity
2002·7.5
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
2002·8.0
The Rookie
2002·6.8
Bug
2002·7.1
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
2002·7.0
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
2002·7.2
The Affair of the Necklace
2001·5.6
L.I.E.
2001·6.7
Strictly Sinatra
2001·5.0
Super Troopers
2001·6.5
Inside 'Manhunter'
2001·7.8
Saltwater
2000·7.1
Complicity
2000·5.8
A Shot at Glory
2000·5.7
Mad About Mambo
2000·5.2
The Invention of Dr. Morel
2000·8.0
The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000·6.3
Longitude
2000·7.4
The History of the British Police Force
1999·0.0
The Minus Man
1999·5.5
For Love of the Game
1999·6.4
The Corruptor
1999·6.1
Rushmore
1998·7.4
Poodle Springs
1998·5.5
Battle of the Clans
1998·0.0
Merchants of Venus
1998·6.3
Desperate Measures
1998·6.0
The Boxer
1997·6.7
Food for Ravens
1997·7.0
Sharpe: The Legend
1997·6.1
Kiss the Girls
1997·6.5
The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996·6.6
The Glimmer Man
1996·5.4
Chain Reaction
1996·5.8
Witness Against Hitler
1996·8.0
Braveheart
1995·7.9
Rob Roy
1995·6.7
The Maltese Double Cross
1994·8.0
The Negotiator
1994·9.0
Grushko
1994·7.5
Prince of Jutland
1994·5.4
Iron Will
1994·6.7
Sharpe's Eagle
1993·7.2
Sharpe's Rifles
1993·6.8
Six Characters in Search of An Author
1992·6.0
The Cutter
1992·0.0
The Lost Language of Cranes
1992·5.9
The Cloning of Joanna May
1992·7.0
Deceptions
1992·9.0
Red Fox
1991·6.0
Hidden Agenda
1990·6.9
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
1990·0.0
Secret Weapon
1990·7.5
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
1989·0.0
The Blasphemers' Banquet
1989·0.0
Murder on the Moon
1989·3.8
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
1988·7.6
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988·6.0
Shoot for the Sun
1987·7.0
Rat in the Skull
1987·0.0
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
1987·0.0
Home Cooking
1986·0.0
Manhunter
1986·7.0
Florence Nightingale
1985·6.0
The Cantor of St Thomas's
1985·7.0
Pope John Paul II
1984·7.5
King Lear
1983·6.7
A Cotswold Death
1982·7.0
The Privilege
1982·7.0
Dalhousie's Luck
1980·0.0
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
1976·7.0
In Celebration
1975·5.2
The Changeling
1974·8.5
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971·7.0
The Year of the Sex Olympics
1968·5.2
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
1965·7.0