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 And...
Known For
Movies
- Braveheart
1995
- The Ring
2002
- 25th Hour
2002
- Troy
2004
- Poodle Springs
1998
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
- Zodiac
2007
- The Bourne Identity
2002
- The Bourne Supremacy
2004
- The Independent
2022
- Adaptation.
2002
- The Good Heart
2009
- Rushmore
1998
- The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996
- The Minus Man
1999
- Trick 'r Treat
2007
- Running with Scissors
2006
- Manhunter
1986
- Red Eye
2005
- Rob Roy
1995
- Iron Will
1994
- Complicity
2000
- Chain Reaction
1996
- Bug
2002
- Kiss the Girls
1997
- The Corruptor
1999
- Desperate Measures
1998
- The Reckoning
2004
- The Ringer
2005
- Red
2008
- Tell-Tale
2009
- The Glimmer Man
1996
- As Good As Dead
2010
- X2
2003
- The Rookie
2002
- The Escapist
2008
- Mad About Mambo
2000
- The Flying Scotsman
2006
- An Interview with Brian...
2023
- Brian Cox on Acting in ...
1989
- Ironclad
2011
- Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
- Scooby-Doo! and the Sam...
2009
- Battle for Terra
2007
- RED
2010
- The Boxer
1997
- Quasi
2023
- Hidden Agenda
1990
- King Lear
1983
- Super Troopers
2001
- Japan's War in Colour
2005
- The Maltese Double Cross
1994
- L.I.E.
2001
- Prince of Jutland
1994
- Longitude
2000
- The Affair of the Neckl...
2001
- Sharpe's Eagle
1993
- Sharpe's Rifles
1993
- The Veteran
2011
- The Secret of the Nutcr...
2007
- The Water Horse
2007
- Regi Andrej Tarkovskij
1988
- The Lost Language of Cr...
1992
- Brian Cox's Jute Journey
2009
- The Blasphemers' Banquet
1989
- The Campaign
2012
- Coriolanus
2011
- The Key Man
2011
- The Parenting
2025
- A Woman in Winter
2007
- Her
2013
- The Privilege
1982
- Strictly Sinatra
2001
- The Year of the Sex Oly...
1968
- Blood
2012
- In Celebration
1975
- Peter O'Toole: Along th...
2022
- Witness Against Hitler
1996
- The Evolution of an Ame...
2003
- The Cloning of Joanna M...
1992
- Little Wing
2024
- An Adventure in Space a...
2013
- On Expenses
2010
- The Cutter
1992
- I Missed My Mother's Fu...
2012
- Six Characters in Searc...
1992
- La Malédiction d'Edgar
2013
- Hitler in Colour
2005
- Anna
2013
- Inside 'Manhunter'
2001
- Believe
2013
- Blumenthal
2013
- The Lord of the Rings: ...
2024
- RED 2
2013
- Match Point
2005
- The Changeling
1974
- Ukraine: Answering the ...
2022
- Deceptions
1992
- Pope John Paul II
1984
- Rise of the Planet of t...
2011
- The Electric State
2025
- A Modern Magician
- The Anomaly
2014
- The Trials of Henry Kis...
2002
- The Gospel of John
2014
- Murder by Numbers
2004
- Darcey Bussell: My Life...
2016
- Shoot for the Sun
1987
- The Glove
- Bonnie
2022
- The Making of 'Hidden A...
1990
- Pixels
2015
- Beryl Markham: A Shadow...
1988
- Bill Douglas: My Best F...
2023
- Forsaken
2015
- Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gan...
2011
- Exit Humanity
2011
- That Christmas
2024
- The Planets
- Ooh the Banter!
2022
- Agent Crush
2008
- Smallpox 2002: Silent W...
2002
- Shoot on Sight
2007
- Skelly
2024
- Saltwater
2000
- Wittgenstein's Poker
- Sharpe: The Legend
1997
- Churchill
2017
- The Carer
2016
- Morgan
2016
- The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016
- For Love of the Game
1999
- Murder on the Moon
1989
- Rasputin: The Devil in ...
2002
- The Second Uncanny Issu...
2003
- Scotland In A Day
2014
- The Strange Case of She...
2005
- Glenrothan
2025
- Pretenders
2019
- Red Fox
1991
- A Shot at Glory
2000
- Food for Ravens
1997
- Blue/Orange
2005
- Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunam...
2017
- Rat in the Skull
1987
- Pacific Warriors
2015
- Merchants of Venus
1998
- Super Troopers 2
2018
- Sin
2003
- Strange but True
2019
- Aleister Crowley - The ...
2002
- Florence Nightingale
1985
- Bob the Builder: Mega M...
2017
- The Etruscan Smile
2018
- Kubrick by Candlelight
2018
- The Invention of Dr. Mo...
2000
- Remember Me
2019
- Last Moment of Clarity
2020
- Unforgivable Blackness:...
2004
- The Cantor of St Thomas...
1985
- The Bay of Silence
2020
- All at Sea
2012
- Secret Weapon
1990
- The Last Right
2019
- Lawrence After Arabia
2020
- Grushko
1994
- The Negotiator
1994
- Widdershins
2018
- Andrew Carnegie: Rags t...
2015
- The Outsiders
2006
- John Rebus: The Lockdow...
2020
- An Evening with Brian C...
2017
- A Knight in Tarnished A...
1965
- A Cotswold Death
1982
- The Biographer
2002
- Clay, Smeddum and Green...
1976
- Separation
2021
- Home Cooking
1986
- Oleg: The Oleg Vidov St...
2021
- Carry On Ken
2006
- Gramsci: Everything tha...
1987
- Mending the Line
2023
- Prisoner's Daughter
2023
- Dalhousie's Luck
1980
- The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000
- Killing Thyme
2015
- Alan Clarke: Out of His...
2016
- Old Pals
- The Bourne Ultimatum
2007
- Loch Lomond: Legend of ...
2002
- Macbeth
1992
- The History of the Brit...
1999
- Super Troopers 3: Winte...
2026
- The Marbles
2025
- AMR: Dying to Change th...
2025
- Raoul Wallenberg: Missi...
2025
- Danny Phantom: Reign St...
2005
TV Shows
- French & Saunders
1987
- Deadwood
2004
- The Tony Danza Show
2004
- The One Show
2006
- Question Time
1979
- Minder
1979
- Inspector Morse
1987
- Richard & Judy
2001
- Superman: The Animated ...
1996
- The Colbert Report
2005
- The Big Battalions
1992
- Nuremberg
2000
- Red Dwarf
1988
- Van der Valk
1972
- One Life
2003
- The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
- The Take
2009
- Acting
1987
- Carpool Karaoke: The Se...
2017
- The Late Show with Step...
2015
- Hammer House of Horror
1980
- The Straits
2012
- Perfect Scoundrels
1990
- Unnatural Causes
1986
- Performance
1991
- Shetland
2013
- The Colour of Magic
2008
- A Touch of Cloth
2012
- Sharpe
1993
- The Slap
2015
- The Late Show with Step...
2015
- The Game
2014
- Tooned
2012
- Brian Cox: How The Othe...
2022
- The Simpsons
1989
- War and Peace
2016
- Penny Dreadful
2014
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
- Top Gear
2002
- Frasier
1993
- Blade Runner: Black Lot...
2021
- The Graham Norton Show
2007
- 007: Road to a Million
2023
- Therese Raquin
1980
- Late Night with Seth Me...
2014
- Bob Servant
2013
- The Great War: The Peop...
2014
- Brian Cox's Russia
2017
- The Sinking of the Laco...
2011
- Piers Morgan Uncensored
2022
- The Tonight Show Starri...
2014
- Succession
2018
- The Day of the Triffids
2009
- Made of Money with Bria...
2023
- Variety Studio: Actors ...
2014
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force
2000
- Last Week Tonight with ...
2014
- The Russell Howard Hour
2017
- The Daily Show
1996
- I Medici
2016
- Celebrity Antiques Road...
2011
- Manhunt
1970
- Have I Got a Bit More N...
- Sunday with Laura Kuens...
2022
- Addicted to Pleasure
2012
- Real Time with Bill Mah...
2003
- Shakespeare: The Animat...
1992
- Play for Today
1970
- The Modern World: Ten G...
1988
- Unsinkable
2024
- BBC Play of the Month
1965
- Great Performances
1971
- Out
1978
- Shakespeare: Rise of a ...
2023
- The Last Leg
2013
- The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
- Good Omens
2019
- VE Day 80
2025
- Playhouse
1974
- The Gamblers
1967
- Target
1977
- Longitude
2000
- The Devil's Crown
1978
- House on the Hill
1981
- Have I Got News for You
1990
- Theatre 625
1964
- Churchill's People
1974
- Kings
2009
- I, Caesar – The Rise an...
1997
- Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003