Bryan Cranston

Acting · 5.8 popularity

Age

Movies

105

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Born: March 7, 1956
From: Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

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 seven Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, 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 has also starred in the drama series Your Honor (2020–2023). On stage, he earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his portrayal of President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Broadway play All the Way (2014), a role he reprised in the 2016 HBO film of the same name. 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), Isle of Dogs (2018), Asteroid City (2023), and The Phoenician Scheme (2025). He has also voiced roles in Madagascar 3 (2012), Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016), and Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Bryan Cranston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

105 films

The Sheep Detectives

20267.9

Saving Private Ryan

19988.2

Kung Fu Panda 4

20247.0

Drive

20117.6

Kung Fu Panda 3

20166.9

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

20126.6

Total Recall

20126.0

John Carter

20126.4

Godzilla

20146.4

Isle of Dogs

20187.8

Argo

20127.3

Power Rangers

20176.2

The Phoenician Scheme

20256.5

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

20197.0

Why Him?

20166.4

Asteroid City

20236.5

Argylle

20246.0

Contagion

20116.7

The Upside

20197.1

Little Miss Sunshine

20067.7

Larry Crowne

20116.0

Dead Silence

19916.3

The Lincoln Lawyer

20117.2

Rock of Ages

20126.2

Detachment

20117.6

That Thing You Do!

19966.9

Jerry & Marge Go Large

20227.4

Red Tails

20126.7

The Disaster Artist

20177.1

The Infiltrator

20166.7

The One and Only Ivan

20207.3

Get a Job

20165.3

The Power of the Present

20178.5

Wakefield

20176.1

Batman: Year One

20117.2

Terror Tract

20006.0

All the Way

20166.6

Trumbo

20157.2

Amazon Women on the Moon

19875.9

Armitage III: Poly Matrix

19966.5

Chili Finger

2026

Clean Slate

19945.8

David Blaine: Real or Magic

20136.8

Tangles

2027

Last Flag Flying

20176.7

In Dubious Battle

20165.8

Everything's Going to Be Great

20255.9

Dead Space

19913.8

Show of Titles

2021

Kramer vs. Kramer: Kenny to Cosmo

20047.0

Love Ranch

20105.4

Illusion

20047.7

The Words That Built America

20176.0

Cold Comes the Night

20135.4

National Theatre Live: All My Sons

202610.0

David Blaine: The Magic Way

20206.6

Seeing Other People

20045.8

No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad

20138.4

Network

2018

The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman

19877.3

CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion

20185.2

Grendel

2026

'Twas the Night

20015.6

Time Under Fire

19975.3

An Audience with Adele

20218.4

Leave

20116.3

Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés

2024

Every Act of Life

20186.4

Pink Elephants

20186.2

Ancient Caves

202010.0

Strategic Command

19975.0

Assassination

2026

The Big Turnaround

19884.7

The Companion

19945.3

The Concert for Valor

20148.6

To Race the Wind

19808.8

The Santa Claus Brothers

20026.6

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon

20055.8

Malcolm in the Middle 2020 Zoom Reunion

20201.0

Holiday Reunion

20034.2

Erotique

19944.0

Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl

20227.0

Love Letters

2020

The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime

19966.8

Barely Legal Pawn

20148.0

Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story

19935.6

Jackpot

2026

The Story of Soaps

20207.0

When We Went MAD!

20255.3

Hard Four

20074.9

Lone Wolf

2026

Street Corner Justice

19965.0

Writer's Block

20134.1

Last Chance

19996.8

Sell/Buy/Date

20228.0

Moscow Mule

2024

The Disappearance of Nora

19935.8

Seth Rogen Is the Worst Person in the World

20136.4

Loving

1983

Corporate Affairs

19903.3

Sense of Smell

201410.0

Kissing Miranda

19954.0

The Big Thing

20089.0

Übermansion

201310.0

Experience Yosemite

2022