Brian Denis Cox CBE is a Scottish actor. He has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre extensively, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear.
Cox was born on 1 June 1946 in Dundee, Scotland as the youngest of five children. Brian Cox began his acting career at age 14 at Dundee Repertory Theatre in 1961 and then as one of the founding members of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, performing in its first show, The Servant O’ Twa Maisters, in October 1965.
Cox won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his portrayal of Hermann Göring in Nuremberg, and received nominations at the Golden Globe Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards. His performance in L.I.E. earned him an AFI Award nomination and an Independent Spirit Award nomination.
Cox has written three books: Salem to Moscow: An Actor’s Odyssey, The Lear Diaries, and his autobiography Putting the Rabbit in the Hat. He was honoured at the 2004 BAFTA Scotland Awards with an Outstanding Achievement Award, and at the 2004 Great Scot Awards with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Brian Cox Parents: Charles McArdle Campbell Cox, Mary Ann Guillerline
His mother, Mary Ann Guillerline (née McCann), was a spinner who worked in jute mills and had multiple nervous breakdowns while Cox was a child. His father, Charles McArdle Campbell Cox, was a butcher and then a shopkeeper who died when Cox was eight years old.
His parents are both from Scotland and have Scottish nationality. Cox was raised by his four elder sisters. When he was 14, he joined the Dundee Repertory Theatre. After a few years at Dundee Repertory Theatre, he attended theatre school at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from the ages of 17 to 19. His parents keep their lives out of the media so there is not much information about them.
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