Brian Cox is currently winning raves for his work in The Silence Of The Lambs.
Following Manhunter, further movie and TV show appearances followed, including Ken Loach's political thriller Hidden Agenda, TV movies Sharpe's Eagle and Sharpe's Rifles starring Sean Bean and an episode of Inspector Morse. Cox is an acclaimed Shakespeare actor too and has tread the boards with Titus Andronicus and Braveheart, and The Glimmer Man. He appeared alongside Daniel Day-Lewis in dark drama The Boxer and had a key role in Wes Anderson's Rushmore in 1999.
Brian Cox is an actor who likes to jump around and is equally at home in comedies, low-budget dramas, and blockbusters. The early 2000s alone highlight this, where he went from a lead role in disturbing thriller L.I.E. to a guest role as Daphne's father in Bourne Identity movies, X2 and Adaptation. He played the lead villain of 2004's Troy and voiced the odious snuff movie director in video game Manhunt.
The late 2000s brought more notable projects, including Wes Craven's Red Eye, horror anthology RED movies with Bruce Willis; in 2008 he played the main character in another thriller called Red.
Brian Cox has worked pretty much non-stop in the years that followed, in projects such as Good Omens alongside David Tennant and Michael Sheen. Since 2018 he's played a lead role in HBO drama Succession as Logan Roy, the tough owner of a media conglomerate who is suffering from ill-health. The show has been showered in critical praise since it began and is a good reminder of Brian Cox's peerless talent.