Bryan Cranston
Born 07/03/1956
(68 years old)
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
Bryan Cranston has won four Emmy® Awards, a Golden Globe Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards® for his portrayal of Walter White on AMC's "Breaking Bad." Cranston holds the honor of being the first actor in a cable series and the second lead actor in the history of the Emmy Awards to receive three consecutive wins. His performance has also earned him two additional Emmy nominations, three Golden Globe nominations and a Television Critics Association award.
Cranston starred as the titular role in Jay Roach's critically acclaimed "Trumbo," released by Broad Street Pictures on November 6, 2015. Cranston received nominations for a Academy Award, Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his work on the film.
He won a Tony® Award for his Broadway debut as President Lyndon B. Johnson in "All the Way" by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan. Cranston also received a Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and Theater World Award for "Outstanding Actor in a Play." Additionally, the show won a Tony Award for "Best Play" and set the record for the highest dollar amount ever generated by a straight play in one eight performance week.
On the big screen, Cranston won a Screen Actors Guild award for his co-starring role in the 2012 Oscar-winning Best Picture, "Argo," as CIA operative Jack O'Donnell opposite star-director Ben Affleck. Cranston also starred in Brad Furman's "Infiltrator" opposite Diane Kruger and was seen in Legendary Pictures' remake of "Godzilla" opposite Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen.
In 2012, Cranston was heard as the voice of "Vitality" in "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted," which grossed over $730 million worldwide. He also starred in Len Wiseman's remake of "Total Recall," Adam Shankman's "Rock of Ages" and Nicolas Winding Refn's critically acclaimed film, "Drive," opposite Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan.
Cranston's additional feature film credits include: "Contagion," "John Carter of Mars," "Larry Crowne," "The Lincoln Lawyer," "Little Miss Sunshine," "Seeing Other People," "Saving Private Ryan," and "That Thing You Do!"
His career began with a role on the television movie "Love Without End," which led to Cranston being signed as an original cast member of ABC's "Loving." He went on to appear in numerous television series. Cranston's roles include Hal on FOX's "Malcolm in the Middle," which ran for seven series and for which Cranston was nominated for a Golden Globe and three Emmy awards; the recurring role of dentist Tim Whatley, on "Seinfeld"; Buzz Aldrin on HBO's acclaimed miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon"; and Officer Dickenson in the made-for-television movie "I Know My First Name is Steven." Before Cranston got his start in film and television, he starred in numerous stage shows including "The God of Hell," "Chapter Two," "The Taming of the Shrew," "A Doll's House," "Eastern Standard," "Wrestlers," "Barefoot in the Park" and "The Steven Weed Show," for which he won a Drama-Logue Award.
Cranston has also found success behind the camera as a director, writer, and producer. He has earned three Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award nominations, the first for an episode of "Modern Family," followed by two nominations in 2014 for episodes of "Modern Family" and "Breaking Bad." As a producer on "Breaking Bad," he has won Emmy Awards and a Producers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Drama Series.
Cranston previously wrote, directed, and starred in the original romantic drama "Last Chance," as a birthday gift for his wife, Robin Dearden, and also directed several episodes of "Malcolm in the Middle" and the Comedy Central pilot "Special Unit." In 2011, Cranston served as executive producer of an exclusive online series called "The Handlers," for Atom.com, in which he also starred as Jack Powers, a politician campaigning for a seat in the State Senate.
Cranston's production company, Moon Shot Entertainment, has developed several projects including the animated series "Supermansion" for Crackle, which Cranston also voiced the lead character, Sneaky Pete for Amazon, and "The Dangerous Book For Boys" for NBC.
Cranston produced an instructional DVD called "KidSmartz," which is designed to educate families on how to stay safe from child abduction and Internet predators. KidSmartz raises money for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
DreamWorks Animation
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2016 |
Zendaya: Neverland |
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2013 |
Movie: The Movie 2V |
2012 |
Movie: The Movie |
2009 |
Breaking Bad: Original Minisodes (series) |
1993 |
Morudaibâ |
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2013 |
Breaking Bad |
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Felina (S05E16) |
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Granite State (S05E15) |
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Ozymandias (S05E14) |
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2012 |
Breaking Bad |
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Walt Whitman: "Gliding over All" (S05E08) |
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Say My Name (S05E07) |
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Buyout (S05E06) |
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more episodes (5) | ||
2011 |
Breaking Bad |
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Face Off (S04E13) |
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End Times (S04E12) |
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Crawl Space (S04E11) |
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more episodes (10) |
Director
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2006 |
Special Unit (TV movie) |
1999 |
Last Chance |
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2021 |
Your Honor |
Part Ten (S01E10) |
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2017 |
Sneaky Pete |
The Roll Over (S01E08) |
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2013 |
Breaking Bad |
Blood Money (S05E09) |
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Modern Family |
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The Old Man & the Tree (S05E10) |
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2012 |
Modern Family |
Election Day (S03E19) |
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The Office |
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Work Bus (S09E04) |
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2010 |
Breaking Bad |
No Mas (S03E01) |
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2009 |
Breaking Bad |
737 (S02E01) |
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2005 |
Malcolm in the Middle |
Billboard (S06E10) |
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Malcolm Defends Reese (S07E09) |
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2004 |
Malcolm in the Middle |
Experiment (S05E18) |
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Dirty Magazine (S05E09) |
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Buseys Run Away (S06E02) |
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2003 |
Malcolm in the Middle |
Stereo Store (S04E13) |
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Vegas (S05E01) |
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2017 |
Sneaky Pete |
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The Longest Day (S01E10) |
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The Turn (S01E09) |
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The Roll Over (S01E08) |
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more episodes (6) |
Creator
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2018 |
The Dangerous Book for Boys |
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How to Build a Treehouse (E06) |
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How to Talk to Girls (E05) |
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The Trojan War (E04) |
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more episodes (3) |
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