Bryan Cranston 1956 69
Bryan Cranston 1956 69
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).
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2026 Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie
2025 Jackpot
2025 Assassination
2025 Everything's Going to Be Great as Buddy
2025 Chili Finger
2025 Tangles
2025 Lone Wolf
2025 The Phoenician Scheme as Reagan
2025 Grendel as King Hrothgar
2025 The Big Thing as Roberto Montalban
2024 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: 10th Anniversary Special as Self (archive footage)
2024 Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés as Self
2024 Kung Fu Panda 4 as Li (voice)
2024 Argylle as Director Ritter
2023 Asteroid City as The Host
2022 Jerry & Marge Go Large as Jerry Selbee
2022 Sell/Buy/Date as Self
2022 Experience Yosemite
2022 Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl as Self
2021 An Audience with Adele as Self
2021 Show of Titles as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
2020 Your Honor as Michael Desiato Executive Producer
2020 The One and Only Ivan as Mack
2020 Malcolm in the Middle 2020 Zoom Reunion as self
2020 Love Letters as Andrew Makepeace Ladd III
2020 The Story of Soaps as Self
2020 David Blaine: The Magic Way as Self
2020 Ancient Caves as Self - Narrator
2019 The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie as Self (extended version)
2019 El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie as Walt
2019 The Upside as Phillip Lacasse
2018 Pink Elephants as Self
2018 CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion as Self
2018 Every Act of Life as John Steinbeck (voice)
2018 Isle of Dogs as Chief (voice)
2018 Network as Howard Beale
2017 Last Flag Flying as Sal Nealon
2017 The Words That Built America as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
2017 The Power of the Present as Self
2017 Wakefield as Howard Wakefield
2017 Power Rangers as Zordon
2017 The Disaster Artist as Bryan Cranston (uncredited)
2016 Why Him? as Ned Fleming
2016 In Dubious Battle as Sheriff
2016 The Infiltrator as Robert Mazur Executive Producer
2016 All the Way as Lyndon B. Johnson Executive Producer
2016 Get a Job as Roger Davis
2016 Kung Fu Panda 3 as Li (voice)
2015 Trumbo as Dalton Trumbo
2014 The Concert for Valor as Self
2014 Barely Legal Pawn as Buzz Jackson
2014 Sense of Smell as Tyler
2014 Godzilla as Joe Brody
2013 No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad as Self
2013 David Blaine: Real or Magic as Self
2013 Writer's Block
2013 Cold Comes the Night as Topo
2013 Übermansion as Titanium Rex
2013 Seth Rogen Is the Worst Person in the World as Heisenberg
2012 Argo as Jack O'Donnell
2012 Total Recall as Cohaagen
2012 Rock of Ages as Mayor Mike Whitmore
2012 Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted as Vitaly (voice)
2012 John Carter as Powell
2012 Red Tails as Colonel William Mortamus
2011 Batman: Year One as Jim Gordon (voice)
2011 Drive as Shannon
2011 Contagion as Lyle Haggerty
2011 Larry Crowne as Dean Tainot
2011 Leave as Eliot
2011 Detachment as Mr. Dearden
2011 The Lincoln Lawyer as Detective Lankford
2010 Love Ranch as James Pettis
2008 Breaking Bad as Walter White Producer
2007 Hard Four as Lt. Bryce Baxter
2006 Little Miss Sunshine as Stan Grossman
2006 Special Unit Director
2005 Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon as Buzz Aldrin (voice)
2004 Illusion as David
2004 Seeing Other People as Peter
2003 Holiday Reunion as Woodrow Snider
2002 The Santa Claus Brothers as Santa Claus (voice)
2001 'Twas the Night as Nick Wrigley
2000 Terror Tract as Ron Gatley
2000 Malcolm in the Middle as Hal
1999 Last Chance as Lance Producer, Writer, Director
1998 Saving Private Ryan as War Department Colonel
1997 Time Under Fire
1997 Strategic Command as Phil Hertzberg
1996 That Thing You Do! as Virgil "Gus" Grissom
1996 Street Corner Justice as Father Brophy
1996 The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime as Patrick Dougherty
1996 Armitage III: Poly Matrix as Eddie (voice)
1995 Kissing Miranda as Special Agent Falsey
1994 The Companion as Alan
1994 Erotique as Dr. Robert Stern (segment 'Let's Talk About Love')
1994 Clean Slate as Club Official
1993 Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story
1991 Dead Space as Dr. Frank Darden
1991 Dead Silence as Prof. Harris
1990 Corporate Affairs as Darren
1988 The Big Turnaround as Jim
1987 Amazon Women on the Moon as Paramedic #1 (segment "Roast Your Loved One") (uncredited)
1987 The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman as Dr. Shepherd
1983 Loving as Douglas Donovan
1980 To Race the Wind as Quarterback (uncredited)