Brian Denis Cox CBE is a Scottish actor. He has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre extensively, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear.
Cox was born on 1 June 1946 in Dundee, Scotland as the youngest of five children. Brian Cox began his acting career at age 14 at Dundee Repertory Theatre in 1961 and then as one of the founding members of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, performing in its first show, The Servant O’ Twa Maisters, in October 1965.
Cox won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his portrayal of Hermann Göring in Nuremberg, and received nominations at the Golden Globe Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards. His performance in L.I.E. earned him an AFI Award nomination and an Independent Spirit Award nomination.
Cox has written three books: Salem to Moscow: An Actor’s Odyssey, The Lear Diaries, and his autobiography Putting the Rabbit in the Hat. He was honoured at the 2004 BAFTA Scotland Awards with an Outstanding Achievement Award, and at the 2004 Great Scot Awards with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Brian Cox Children
Cox is a father of four children he welcomed with his two wives. He shared his first two elder children with his first wife Caroline Burt, named Margaret and Alan. His other two children were welcomed with his second wife Nicole Ansari named, Orson Jonathan Cox, and Torin Kamran Cox.
Cox was born in Westminster, London, and is the son of Scottish Emmy Award-winning actor Brian Cox and his first wife, actress Caroline Burt. Cox was educated at St Paul’s School in London. He has a sister, Margaret, and two half brothers Orson Jonathan Cox and Torin Kamran Cox.
Cox portrayed the young John Mortimer in the 1982 TV adaptation of his play A Voyage Round My Father, starring Laurence Olivier. He is probably most widely known for his role in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), where he played a teenage version of Dr Watson.
Torin Kamran Charles Cox’s father Brian is a Scottish actor. He has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre extensively, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. He played supporting roles in Rob Roy and Mel Gibson’s Academy Award-winning Braveheart.
Orson is a Scottish celebrity kid who happens to be the son of actor, Brian Cox. He is one of four children of the actor and also the grandson of Charles McArdle Campbell Cox and Mary Ann Guillerline. He was born in 2002 to his parents.
He is currently 20 years old. He was born to his parents on January 31, 2002, hence he celebrated his 20th birthday a couple of months back.