Brian Cox CBE is a Scottish actor who began his career at 14 at Dundee Repertory Theatre and trained at LAMDA, graduating in 1965. He is a classically trained stage actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company, who won two Laurence Olivier Awards, for Rat in the Skull and Titus Andronicus. On screen he was the first actor to play Hannibal Lecter, in Manhunter (1986), and his film credits include Braveheart, Rob Roy, The Bourne Identity, X2, Troy and Rushmore. He won a Primetime Emmy for the TV film Nuremberg and a Golden Globe for playing Logan Roy in HBO’s Succession, and he also appeared in Shetland as Magnus Bain.
1987 · 7 seasons · ITV
