Bryan Cranston
Biography
Bryan Lee Cranston (born March 7, 1956) is an American actor. After taking minor roles in television, he established himself as a leading actor in both comedic and dramatic works on stage and screen. He has received several accolades, including six Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Tony Awards, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. Cranston first gained prominence playing Hal in the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (2000–2006), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He gained stardom for his dramatic leading role playing Walter White in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013), for which he won the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times (2008, 2009, 2010, and 2014). He was Emmy-nominated for All the Way (2016) and Curb Your Enthusiasm (2018). Cranston co-developed and appeared in the crime drama series Sneaky Pete (2015–2019) and starred in the drama series Your Honor (2020–2023). On stage, he earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for portraying President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Broadway play All the Way (2014), a role he reprised in the 2016 HBO film. He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and his second Tony Award for portraying Howard Beale in the play Network on the West End and Broadway, respectively. Cranston earned nominations for the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor for portraying Dalton Trumbo in the Hollywood blacklist drama Trumbo (2015). Other notable films include Saving Private Ryan (1998), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Drive (2011), Contagion (2011), Argo (2012), Godzilla (2014), The Infiltrator (2016), The Upside (2017), Last Flag Flying (2017), and Asteroid City (2023). He has also voiced roles in Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012), Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016), Isle of Dogs (2018), and Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024).
Porsonal Info
5.8
Clean Slate
1994-05-06
8.4
An Audience with Adele
2021-11-21
6.0
Total Recall
2012-08-02
7.6
Drive
2011-09-15
4.4
Hard Four
2007-11-01
6.6
Contagion
2011-09-08
6.1
Everything's Going to Be Great
2025-06-20
5.8
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
2005-09-23
3.9
Holiday Reunion
2003-11-23
6.4
John Carter
2012-03-07
7.3
Argo
2012-10-11
7.2
Batman: Year One
2011-09-27
6.6
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
2012-06-06
7.2
The Lincoln Lawyer
2011-03-17
6.2
Rock of Ages
2012-06-13
6.6
Red Tails
2012-01-19
7.6
Detachment
2011-04-24
6.0
Larry Crowne
2011-06-30
5.5
'Twas the Night
2001-12-07
6.4
Godzilla
2014-05-14
8.0
Sell/Buy/Date
2022-10-14
10.0
Barely Legal Pawn
2014-08-19
5.3
Get a Job
2016-03-17
5.5
Cold Comes the Night
2013-09-20
4.1
Writer's Block
2013-11-01
8.4
No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
2013-11-26
0.0
Malcolm in the Middle 2020 Zoom Reunion
2020-07-09
0.0
Experience Yosemite
2022-06-04
7.2
Trumbo
2015-10-27
7.0
Kung Fu Panda 4
2024-03-02
4.9
Strategic Command
1997-01-06
7.7
Little Miss Sunshine
2006-07-26
8.6
The Concert for Valor
2014-11-11
6.9
Kung Fu Panda 3
2016-01-23
6.9
That Thing You Do!
1996-10-04
6.4
Seth Rogen Is the Worst Person in the World
2013-04-10
6.7
The Infiltrator
2016-07-13
5.8
In Dubious Battle
2016-10-08
8.5
To Race the Wind
1980-03-12
6.7
All the Way
2016-05-23
0.0
Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés
2024-03-18
6.4
Armitage III: Poly Matrix
1996-06-25
6.4
Why Him?
2016-12-22
6.7
David Blaine: Real or Magic
2013-11-19
6.1
Wakefield
2017-05-19
6.2
Dead Silence
1991-08-26
0.0
Grendel
7.1
The Disaster Artist
2017-03-12
7.8
Isle of Dogs
2018-03-23
6.3
Power Rangers
2017-03-23
0.0
Tangles
6.8
Last Flag Flying
2017-11-03
7.1
The Upside
2019-01-10
8.2
Saving Private Ryan
1998-07-24
10.0
Sense of Smell
2014-06-27
3.7
Erotique
1994-05-14
4.9
The Companion
1994-10-14
3.5
The Big Turnaround
1988-01-01
3.6
Dead Space
1991-10-21
5.8
Seeing Other People
2004-05-07
5.0
Time Under Fire
1997-11-12
6.4
The Santa Claus Brothers
2002-07-12
1.0
Corporate Affairs
1990-10-05
7.6
Illusion
2004-10-25
5.8
The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime
1996-09-18
6.3
Leave
2011-05-03
4.7
Street Corner Justice
1996-09-27
5.4
Love Ranch
2010-06-30
6.0
Terror Tract
2000-10-18
7.4
The One and Only Ivan
2020-08-21
6.4
Every Act of Life
2018-04-23
8.5
The Power of the Present
2017-06-27
6.0
Last Chance
1999-01-01
7.0
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
2019-10-11
10.0
Übermansion
2013-08-25
6.0
The Words That Built America
2017-07-04
6.2
Pink Elephants
2018-11-15
5.2
CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion
2018-10-05
7.3
The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1987-05-17
5.3
Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story
1993-05-04
7.0
The Story of Soaps
2020-05-19
0.0
Love Letters
2020-05-21
6.6
David Blaine: The Magic Way
2020-04-01
0.0
Loving
1983-06-26
10.0
Ancient Caves
2020-03-13
7.4
Jerry & Marge Go Large
2022-10-20
3.3
Kissing Miranda
1995-02-25
6.0
Argylle
2024-01-31
6.4
Asteroid City
2023-06-08
5.9
Amazon Women on the Moon
1987-09-18
0.0
Jackpot
0.0
Assassination
0.0
Lone Wolf
0.0
Chili Finger
0.0
Network
2018-03-07
0.0
Show of Titles
2021-06-13
6.5
The Phoenician Scheme
2025-05-23
9.5
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
2022-01-31
0.0
The Sheep Detectives
2026-05-07
0.0
The Big Thing
5.0
When We Went MAD!
2025-06-24
0.0
Kramer vs. Kramer: Kenny to Cosmo
2004-11-23
0.0
Moscow Mule
2024-05-02
10.0
Making of Better Call Saul: Finale
2022-09-01
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