Age: 80
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Brian Denis Cox (born June 1, 1946) is a Scottish actor. A classically trained Shakespearean actor, he is known for his work on stage and screen. His numerous accolades include two Laurence Olivier Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a British Academy Television Award. In 2003, he was appointed to the Order of the British Empire at the rank of Commander. Cox trained at the Dundee Repertory Theatre before becoming a founding member of the Royal Lyceum Theatre. He went on to train as a Shakespearean actor, starring in numerous productions with the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. Cox received two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Actor for his roles in Rat in the Skull (1984), for Royal Court, and Titus Andronicus (1988). He received two more Olivier Award nominations for Misalliance (1986) and Fashion (1988). Known as a character actor in film, he played Robert McKee in Spike Jonze's Adaptation (2002) and William Stryker in X2 (2003). For his starring role in L.I.E. (2001), he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. His other notable films include Manhunter (1986), Iron Will (1994), Braveheart (1995), The Boxer (1997), The Rookie (2002), Troy (2004), Match Point (2005), The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007), Coriolanus (2011), Pixels (2015), and Churchill (2017). Cox won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his portrayal of Hermann Göring in the television film Nuremberg (2001). The following year, he guest starred on the NBC sitcom Frasier, earning his second Emmy nomination in 2002. He portrayed Jack Langrishe in the HBO series Deadwood. He starred as Logan Roy on the HBO series Succession (2018-2023), for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series and was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Actor in a Drama Series.
Brian Cox
Perry White
for Perry White in Tim Burton’s Superman Lives (1997)
Suggested by deppstepp
Clark Kent has been Superman for a few years now, growing supporters such as Lois Lane and enemies such as Lex Luthor. Clark has started feeling more and more like an outsider to the world, only feeling normal in his fortress of solitude and around Lois Lane. Lex Luthor is on the verge of discovering who Superman is and is willing to do whatever it takes to find out. An alien known as Brainiac has come to kill Superman and absorb his DNA, granting great power and sends the creature known as Doomsday after him. Doomsday kills Superman in an epic battle where the world would then mourn. Brainiac comes for Superman’s DNA only to find out that his body has been taken to the Fortress of Solitude. Superman is revived by a small entity known as K albeit powerless. K, who is the unknown life force of Jor-El adjusts Superman’s suit to allow him and fight Brainiac. Lex Luthor merges with Brainiac to form ‘Lexiac’ who plans on destroy Earth like he did Krypton.
