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Brian Cox

Milestones

  • Birthplace: Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Birthday: June 1, 1946
  • 2009

    Lent his voice to the animated film, "Battle for Terra"

  • 2008

    Played an institutionalized convict in Rupert Wyatt's "The Escapist"

  • 2007

    Played Melvin Belli, a celebrity defense lawyer in David Fincher's thriller "Zodiac"

  • 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"

  • 2005

    Co-starred in Woody Allen's "Match Point"

  • 2004

    Cast as Agamemnon in director Wolfgang Petersen's Greek epic "Troy"

  • 2004

    Reprised role of Ward Abbott for "The Bourne Supremacy"

  • 2003

    Played the villainous, anti-mutant crusader Stryker, in "X2"

  • 2002

    Appeared in Gore Verbinski's "The Ring"

  • 2002

    Had a supporting role as CIA Deputy Director, opposite Matt Damon, in "The Bourne Identity"

  • 2002

    Portrayed real-life screenwriting seminar instructor Robert McKee in Kaufman's pseudo-autobiographical film, "Adaptation"

  • 2001

    Received critical praise for his role as a pedophile in "L.I.E."

  • 2000

    Co-starred in the A&E TV-movie, "Longitude"

  • 2000

    Portrayed Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering in the TNT miniseries "Nuremberg"

  • 1999

    Cast as an unhappily married man who takes in a serial killer (Owen Wilson) in "The Minus Man"

  • 1999

    Cast as the crusty owner of a baseball team in "For Love of the Game"

  • 1998

    Co-starred in the HBO original "Poodle Springs"

  • 1998

    Played the school's headmaster in Wes Anderson's "Rushmore"; co-penned by Anderson and Owen Wilson

  • 1998

    Succeeded Alan Alda as Marc in the award-winning "Art" on Broadway

  • 1997

    Appeared as an IRA leader in "The Boxer"

  • 1997

    Performed the one-person play "St. Nicholas"; written by Conor McPherson expressly for Cox

  • 1995

    Acted opposite Mel Gibson in "Braveheart"

  • 1993

    Appeared in episodes of the British drama "Sharpe"

  • 1991

    Played a closeted homosexual 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"

  • 1989

    Originated role of Frankie in the London premiere of Terrence McNally's "Frankie and Johnnie in the Clair-de-Lune"

  • 1988

    Played the title role in the Royal Shakespeare production of "Titus Andronicus"

  • 1986

    Originated the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecktor in "Manhunter"

  • 1985

    Made Broadway debut reprising his role in "Strange Interlude"; also starred Jackson

  • 1985

    Reprised leading role in the Off-Broadway staging of "Rat in the Skull" at the Public Theater

  • 1984

    Co-starred opposite Glenda Jackson on the London stage in Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude"

  • 1984

    Garnered acclaim for starring role in the stage play "Rat in the Skull"

  • 1984

    Had a supporting role opposite Laurence Olivier in the TV adaptation of "King Lear"

  • 1982

    Had title role in the National Theatre production of "Danton' Death"

  • 1980

    Made TV debut in "Therese Raquin" opposite Kate Nelligan (aired in USA on PBS)

  • 1976

    Began acting with the National Theatre in London

  • 1975

    Reprised stage role of Steven in the film version of "In Celebration"

  • 1973

    Stage directing debut, "The Man with a Flower in His Mouth" (Manchester)

  • 1972

    Appeared in "Hedda Gabler" at the Royal Court

  • 1971

    Film debut, as Trotsky in "Nicholas and Alexandra"

  • 1969

    First performance with the Royal Court Theatre, "In Celebration"

  • 1966 to 1967

    Spent a season with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre; made London stage debut in "As You Like It"

  • 1960

    Joined the Dundee Repertory Theatre at the age of fourteen; debuted in "Dover Road"

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