
Bryan Cranston
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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, 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 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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Known For

Saturday Night Live

Seinfeld

Family Guy

Diagnosis: Murder

The Simpsons

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Oscars

Late Night with Seth Meyers

30 Rock

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

How I Met Your Mother

The Graham Norton Show

The Daily Show

Murder, She Wrote

Matlock

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Airwolf

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Better Call Saul

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Real Time with Bill Maher

American Dad!

Baywatch

MADtv

CHiPs

The Late Late Show with James Corden

The X-Files

Walker, Texas Ranger

Working

Entertainment Tonight

From the Earth to the Moon

Viper

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch

Jake and the Fatman

Lilo & Stitch: The Series

Chicago Hope

The Stand

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

The Emmy Awards

Hill Street Blues

Touched by an Angel

Inside Comedy

Who Do You Think You Are?

L.A. Law

The King of Queens

Cover Up

3rd Rock from the Sun

Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?

The Flash

Babylon 5

Falcon Crest

Brotherly Love

Geeking Out

The Pretender

Talking with Chris Hardwick

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Archer

Brooklyn South

Clerks

Hart to Heart

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

Thank God You're Here

Gary & Mike

Saving Private Ryan

Amazon Women on the Moon

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

I Know My First Name Is Steven

The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

Detachment

Sneaky Pete

The Lincoln Lawyer

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

John Carter

Fall

Rock of Ages

Contagion

Total Recall

Little Miss Sunshine

Power Rangers

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Power Rangers

Asteroid City

The Phoenician Scheme

The Studio

Kung Fu Panda 4

Venom: The Last Dance

Godzilla

The Concert for Valor

The Louie Show

Drive

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Argylle

Larry Crowne

Get a Job

Malcolm in the Middle

Batman: Year One

Malcolm in the Middle 2020 Zoom Reunion

Malcolm in the Middle Revival

The Upside

Kung Fu Panda 3

Argo

Last Flag Flying

Seth Rogen Is the Worst Person in the World

The One and Only Ivan

Breaking Bad

No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad

Red Tails

Animal

Supermansion

Jujutsu Kaisen

Isle of Dogs

Your Honor

All the Way

Jerry & Marge Go Large

Why Him?
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