A leading man on the London stage since the 1960s, Brian Cox was most often cast in character and... (Learn more)
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Brian Cox’s Milestones
| Embarked on world tour playing "King Lear" | |
| Had co-starring role in the ABC 2001-2002 midseason replacement "The Court" | |
| Raised in Dundee, Scotland | |
| Staged "The Crucible" at the Moscow Arts Theatre | |
| 1960 | At age 14, joined the Dundee Repertory Company and began acting career; debuted in "Dover Road" |
| 1966 - 1967 | Spent season with Birmingham Repertory Theatre; made London stage debut with troupe as Orlando in "As You Like It" |
| 1969 | First association with the Royal Court Theatre in London, acted in "In Celebration"; portrayed a miner's son |
| 1971 | Film debut, as Trotsky in "Nicholas and Alexandra" |
| 1972 | Appeared in "Hedda Gabler" at the Royal Court |
| 1973 | Stage directing debut, "The Man with a Flower in His Mouth" (Manchester) |
| 1975 | Reprised stage role of Steven in the film version of "In Celebration" |
| 1976 | Began working at the National Theatre in London |
| 1980 | TV debut, as Laurent Raquin in "Therese Raquin", opposite Kate Nelligan; aired in USA on PBS |
| 1982 | Had title role in the National Theatre production of "Danton' Death" |
| 1984 | Co-starred opposite Glenda Jackson on the London stage in Eugene O'Neill's play "Strange Interlude" |
| 1984 | Garnered acclaim for starring role in the stage play "Rat in the Skull" |
| 1984 | Supported Laurence Olivier in the TV adaptation of "King Lear"; played Burgundy |
| 1985 | Broadway debut reprising role in "Strange Interlude", opposite Jackson |
| 1985 | Reprised lead in Off-Broadway staging of "Rat in the Skull" at the Public Theater |
| 1986 | Created role of Dr Hannibal Lektor [sic] in "Manhunter" |
| 1988 | Stage breakthrough, had title role in Royal Shakespeare production of "Titus Andronicus"; also toured Europed in part |
| 1989 | Originated role of Frankie in the London premiere of Terrence McNally's "Frankie and Johnnie in the Clair-de-Lune" |
| 1991 | Cast as a closeted homosexual who must confront his own sexual orientation when his son reveals he is gay in the British TV adaptation of "The Lost Language of Cranes" |
| 1991 | Portrayed a wealthy man who has had duplicate copies of his wife made in "The Cloning of Joanna May" |
| 1993 | Appeared in episodes of "Sharpe" |
| 1993 | Played title role in the BBC film "Grushko" |
| 1995 | Acted in the period epics "Rob Roy" and "Braveheart" |
| 1997 | Appeared as an IRA leader in "The Boxer" |
| 1997 | Had lead role in the L.A. premiere of David Hare's play "Skylight" |
| 1997 | Received glowing notices for his performance in the one-person play "St. Nicholas", by Conor McPherson; role written expressly for Cox; reprised role in NYC |
| 1998 | Cast as the school's headmaster in "Rushmore", directed by Wes Anderson and co-written by Owen Wilson |
| 1998 | Co-starred in the HBO original "Poodle Springs" |
| 1998 | Made unsold pilot for CBS drama series "The Family Brood", playing the patriarch of an Irish Catholic family of firefighters |
| 1998 | Succeeded Alan Alda as Marc in the award-winning "Art" on Broadway |
| 1999 | Cast as the crusty owner of a baseball team in "For Love of the Game" |
| 1999 | Starred opposite Wilson as an unhappily married man who takes in a serial killer (Wilson) as a boarder in "The Minus Man" |
| 2000 | Acted in McPherson's play "Dublin Carol" at the Old Vic and then the Royal Court |
| 2000 | Co-starred in "Longitude"; aired in USA on A&E |
| 2000 | Portrayed Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering in the TNT miniseries "Nuremberg" |
| 2000 | Portrayed the bankrupt owner of a chip shop in "Saltwater", directed by McPherson and based on his play "This Lime Tree Bower" |
| 2001 | Featured in two motion pictures premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, "Super Troopers" and "L.I.E."; cast as a pedophile in the latter and won nearly unanimous critical praise for his performance |
| 2001 | Played supporting roles in "Strictly Sinatra" and "The Affair of the Necklace" |
| 2002 | Appeared in the supernatural/high-tech thriller "The Ring" |
| 2002 | Co-starred with Matt Damon in "The Bourne Identity" |
| 2002 | Had supporting role in "The Reckoning" |
| 2002 | Portrayed real-life screenwriting seminar instructor Robert McKee in Kaufman's pseudo-autobiographical film, "Adaptation" |
| 2002 | cast in director Spike Lee's "The 25th Hour" |
| 2003 | Played the villainous, anti-mutant crusader Stryker in "X2," the sequel to "X-Men" |
| 2004 | Cast as Agamemnon in director Wolfgang Petersen's Greek epic "Troy" |
| 2004 | Cast opposite Paul Bettany and Willem Dafoe in "The Reckoning" |
| 2004 | Revised role of Ward Abbott in "The Bourne Supremacy" opposite Matt Damon |
| 2005 | Co-starred in Woody Allen's "Match Point" |
| 2006 | Joined the cast of HBO's "Deadwood" as theater owner, Jack Langrishe |
| 2006 | Played Dr. Finch, the oddly hypnotic psychotherapist in "Running With Scissors" |
| 2007 | Played Melvin Belli, a celebrity defense lawyer in David Fincher's thriller "Zodiac" |
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