Bryan Cranston
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
218
Gender
Male
Birthday
1956-03-07 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Bryan Cranston
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, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, 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 the drama series 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).
Known For
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
The Simpsons
The Simpsons
Breaking Bad
The Daily Show
American Dad!
American Dad!
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
How I Met Your Mother
The Graham Norton Show
Conan
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Seinfeld
The X-Files
Better Call Saul
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Real Time with Bill Maher
Curb Your Enthusiasm
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Malcolm in the Middle
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Diagnosis: Murder
Diagnosis: Murder
Hot Ones
Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote
Archer
The View
The View
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
30 Rock
The King of Queens
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Falcon Crest
Babylon 5
Kung Fu Panda 4
Baywatch
Hill Street Blues
Touched by an Angel
The Studio
Good Day Live
Chicago Hope
Airwolf
L.A. Law
3rd Rock from the Sun
Matlock
Matlock
The Pretender
Lilo & Stitch: The Series
Lilo & Stitch: The Series
V.I.P.
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Sneaky Pete
Walker, Texas Ranger
Jake and the Fatman
Viper
The Tony Danza Show
The Phoenician Scheme
Saving Private Ryan
On Air with Ryan Seacrest
The Oscars
Kung Fu Panda 3
Entertainment Tonight
Your Honor
Godzilla
Nowhere Man
Drive
John Carter
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
Brooklyn South
From the Earth to the Moon
The Flash
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Pocket Dragon Adventures
Isle of Dogs
Detachment
Argylle
Who Do You Think You Are?
CHiPs
The Stand
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
The Lincoln Lawyer
Working
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Total Recall
Brotherly Love
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
The Upside
Rock of Ages
Inside Comedy
Argo
Cover Up
The Sheep Detectives
Asteroid City
CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion
Clerks
Clerks
Larry Crowne
Hart to Heart
Little Miss Sunshine
Contagion
That Thing You Do!
Power Rangers
Gary & Mike
Gary & Mike
The Power of the Present
Lone Wolf
I Know My First Name Is Steven
Supermansion
Animal
Seeing Other People
Love Ranch
All the Way
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
Sense of Smell
Why Him?
Red Tails
Street Corner Justice
Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair
Strategic Command
Jerry & Marge Go Large
An Audience with Adele
Goode Behavior
Seth Rogen Is the Worst Person in the World
When We Went MAD!
The Big Turnaround
Geeking Out
Capital News
Everything's Going to Be Great
The Companion
Batman: Year One
The Emmy Awards
David Blaine: The Magic Way
The One and Only Ivan
Wakefield
No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
Leave
The Infiltrator
Talking with Chris Hardwick
Loving
Clean Slate
Amazon Women on the Moon
Show Me More
Corporate Affairs
Time Under Fire
Trumbo
The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
To Race the Wind
Alf's Hit Talk Show
The Concert for Valor
Last Flag Flying
Eagle Riders
Fallen
In Dubious Battle
Thank God You're Here
Assassination
'Twas the Night
Armitage III: Poly Matrix
Holiday Reunion
The Words That Built America
Tangles
The Disaster Artist
Show of Titles
Cold Comes the Night
Dead Space
Get a Job
Übermansion
MADtv
MADtv
Hard Four
Raising Miranda
Erotique
The Santa Claus Brothers
Big History
The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime
The Writers' Room
The Louie Show
Last Chance
David Blaine: Real or Magic
Illusion
Chili Finger
Terror Tract
Grendel
Malcolm In The Middle: Reese Goes To War
Just For Laughs: Redux
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
Kissing Miranda
The Story of Soaps
Every Act of Life
Malcolm in the Middle 2020 Zoom Reunion
Ancient Caves
Love Letters
Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés
Barely Legal Pawn
Dead Silence
Network
Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story
Writer's Block
Pink Elephants
Sell/Buy/Date
Experience Yosemite
Jackpot
The Big Thing
