
Place of Birth:
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Date of Birth:
3/7/1956
Bryan Lee Cranston (born March 7, 1956) is a European-American businessman, entrepreneur, actor, voice actor, screenwriter, director and producer. 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.

Clean Slate

An Audience with Adele

Total Recall

Drive

Hard Four

Contagion

Everything's Going to Be Great

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon

Holiday Reunion

John Carter

Argo

Batman: Year One

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

The Lincoln Lawyer

Rock of Ages

Red Tails

Detachment

Larry Crowne

'Twas the Night

Godzilla

Sell/Buy/Date

Barely Legal Pawn

Get a Job

Cold Comes the Night
Writer's Block

No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
Malcolm in the Middle 2020 Zoom Reunion

Experience Yosemite

Trumbo

Kung Fu Panda 4

Strategic Command

Little Miss Sunshine

The Concert for Valor

Kung Fu Panda 3

That Thing You Do!

Seth Rogen Is the Worst Person in the World

The Infiltrator

In Dubious Battle

To Race the Wind

All the Way

Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés

Armitage III: Poly Matrix

Why Him?

David Blaine: Real or Magic

Wakefield

Dead Silence

Grendel

The Disaster Artist

Isle of Dogs

Power Rangers
Tangles

Last Flag Flying

The Upside

Saving Private Ryan

Sense of Smell

Dead Space

Love Ranch

Terror Tract

Seeing Other People

Leave

Erotique

The Companion

Illusion

Time Under Fire

The Big Turnaround

Street Corner Justice

The Santa Claus Brothers

The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime

Corporate Affairs

The One and Only Ivan

Every Act of Life

The Power of the Present

Last Chance

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

Übermansion

The Words That Built America

Pink Elephants

CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion

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

Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story

The Story of Soaps

Love Letters

David Blaine: The Magic Way
Loving

Ancient Caves

Jerry & Marge Go Large
Kissing Miranda

Argylle

Asteroid City

Amazon Women on the Moon
Jackpot
Assassination
Lone Wolf
Chili Finger

Network

Show of Titles

The Phoenician Scheme

Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl

The Sheep Detectives
The Big Thing

When We Went MAD!
Kramer vs. Kramer: Kenny to Cosmo

Moscow Mule

Making of Better Call Saul: Finale

National Theatre Live: All My Sons

The Call