Brian Cox
Scottish actor
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| 2025 | Cox signed a letter criticizing the film industry's 'passivity' during the ongoing Gaza genocide, prior to the Cannes Film Festival. |
| 2025 | Production of 'The Score' transferred from Theatre Royal, Bath to Theatre Royal, Haymarket. |
| 2024 | Confirmed to appear in two upcoming films: 'Skelly' and 'The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim'. |
| 2023 | Played the lead role of Johann Sebastian Bach in Oliver Cotton's play 'The Score' at the Theatre Royal, Bath, directed by Trevor Nunn. |
| 2023 | Concluded his role in 'Succession', having won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series and receiving three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the role. |
| October 2023 | Cox signed the Artists4Ceasefire letter calling for a ceasefire during the Israel-Hamas war and recorded a reading of a poem by Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian writer killed in an Israeli airstrike. |
| 2022 | Starred in the political thriller 'The Independent', portraying an experienced journalist who collaborates with a young reporter to uncover a major conspiracy. |
| 2022 | Executive produced and starred in the American drama film 'Mending the Line', playing a Vietnam veteran who teaches a young injured soldier fly fishing as a coping mechanism. |
| October 2022 | Cox acknowledged he was unlikely to ever return to living in Scotland due to the weather. |
| October 2022 | Cox criticized Conservative Prime Minister Liz Truss in the wake of the September 2022 United Kingdom mini-budget. |
| 2021 | Cox played Paul Rivers in the horror film Separation and did voice work for the animated short-film Wittgenstein's Poker as Bertrand Russell. |
| 2021 | Cox voiced the English version of Niander Wallace Sr. in the Japanese-American animated series Blade Runner: Black Lotus. |
| 2021 | Cox signed 'A Letter Against Apartheid' during the Israel-Palestine crisis, supporting six Palestinian artists. |
| 2021 | Brian Cox read his own autobiography Putting the Rabbit in the Hat and narrated The Word of God Audio Bible. |
| 2021 | Cox voiced Augustus in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: Act II, the second installment of Audible's New York Times best-selling original. |
| July 2021 | Cox was announced as part of the cast of the family drama Prisoner's Daughter, which was released at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, with his performance receiving particular praise. |
| April 2021 | Cox provided voiceovers for television advertisements launching the online property portal Boomin. |
| 2020 | Cox began voicing television advertisements for McDonald's. |
| 2020 | Cox narrated the RSV-CE's Truth & Life Dramatized Audio Bible. |
| 2020 | Directed the UK premiere of Joshua Sobol's Sinners — The English Professor. |
| 2020 | Cox began voice-acting in the sci-fi series From Now as Hunter, the formerly identical brother of Richard Madden's character. |
| 2020 | Reprised his role as Grand Marshal of the New York City Tartan Day Parade, becoming the first previous Grand Marshal to return since the parade moved to Manhattan's Sixth Avenue. |
| 2020 | Served as executive producer for the series From Now (continued through 2021). |
| 2020 | Cox starred as Gilles in the American neo-noir thriller Last Moment of Clarity and played Milton Hunter, a powerful art dealer, in The Bay of Silence. |
| 2020 | Narrated Alexander: The Story of a Legendary Leader radio production. |
| November 2020 | Announced as part of the cast of 'Unsinkable', an audio movie series about the MV San Demetrio, featuring eleven 20-minute episodes about the tanker's wartime survival story. |
| April 2020 | Became patron of the British American Drama Academy, with whom he has a decades-long association, including directing collaborations with the Moscow Art Theatre and holding regular Masterclasses. |
| January 2020 | Cox called for a second referendum on Scottish independence, arguing that Labour had 'failed' in Scotland. |
| January 2020 | Removed from patronage of the Mid-Lin Daycare Centre in Dundee after four years, due to his confession of using and endorsing recreational cannabis. |
| 2019 | Cox was The Voice in the supernatural black comedy short film A Modern Magician, and voiced Death in Good Omens. |
| 2019 | Narrated the epic full-cast radio drama The Stuarts. |
| 2019 | Cox played Father Reilly in the comedy drama The Last Right. |
| 2019 | Returned to Broadway to star as Lyndon B. Johnson in Robert Schenkkan's The Great Society at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. |
| August 2019 | Cox starred as Shane in the romantic comedy Remember Me and reprised his role in the second season of Succession, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama. |
| June 2019 | Cox played William 'Bill' Erwin in the thriller Strange But True, an adaptation of John Searles' novel. |
| 2018 | Played John Bernard Books in the radio dramatisation of The Shootist and appeared as a talking head in Dead Ringers: Series 18. |
| 2018 | Began starring as Logan Roy in the HBO series 'Succession'. |
| 2018 | Cox provided the opening narration for the horror film Dark Highlands. |
| 2018 | He voiced Mr Widdershins in the animated series Widdershins, portraying a gentleman whose life is pampered by automated machines. |
| December 2018 | Appointed head of the international jury at the Golden Unicorn Awards. |
| November 2018 | Cox starred as Henry in James Franco's drama The Pretenders. |
| May 2018 | Cox starred in The Etruscan Smile as Rory MacNeil, playing a dying man who reunites with his estranged son. |
| April 2018 | Brian Cox reprised his role as Captain John O'Hagen in Super Troopers 2, after initial script drafts had excluded his character. |
| 2017 | Cox narrated the multi award-winning short film Kubrick by Candlelight, which explores behind-the-scenes of Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon. |
| 2017 | Cox voiced Conrad and Crunch in both the UK and US versions of Bob the Builder: Mega Machines. |
| October 2017 | Made an honorary patron for Capital Theatre's campaign to modernize the historic King's Theatre Edinburgh and preserve it for future generations. |
| June 2017 | Starred in the critically acclaimed historical war drama Churchill, playing the title role of Winston Churchill. |
| January 2017 | Brian Cox provided the voiceover for Virgin TV's cross-platform advertising campaign promoting Virgin TV Anywhere service. |
| 2016 | Starred as Sir Michael Gifford in The Carer, winning a Career Achievement Award at the Stony Brook Film Festival and receiving a BAFTA Scotland Awards nomination for Best Actor. |
| 2016 | Became co-artistic director of the Mirror Theater Ltd. |
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