
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, 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).
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Known For

Saturday Night Live

Seinfeld

Family Guy

The Simpsons

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

30 Rock

Late Night with Seth Meyers

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

How I Met Your Mother

The Graham Norton Show

The Daily Show

Diagnosis: Murder

Murder, She Wrote

Better Call Saul

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Airwolf

The Oscars

MADtv

Real Time with Bill Maher

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Matlock

American Dad!

Baywatch

CHiPs

The Late Late Show with James Corden

The X-Files

Walker, Texas Ranger

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

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

Inside Comedy

Touched by an Angel

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

Brotherly Love

Babylon 5

Falcon Crest

Geeking Out

The Pretender

Talking with Chris Hardwick

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Archer

Gary & Mike

Brooklyn South

Clerks

Hart to Heart

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

The Studio

Power Rangers

Thank God You're Here

Animal

Saving Private Ryan

Amazon Women on the Moon

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

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

I Know My First Name Is Steven

Sneaky Pete

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

The Lincoln Lawyer

John Carter

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

Detachment

Fall

Rock of Ages

Contagion

Little Miss Sunshine

Total Recall

The Phoenician Scheme

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Asteroid City

Power Rangers

Venom: The Last Dance

Kung Fu Panda 4

The Concert for Valor

The Louie Show

Godzilla

Get a Job

Argylle

Drive

Larry Crowne

Malcolm in the Middle

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Kung Fu Panda 3

Seth Rogen Is the Worst Person in the World

Untitled Malcolm in the Middle Miniseries Revival

Batman: Year One

Argo

Last Flag Flying

Malcolm in the Middle 2020 Zoom Reunion

The Upside

Red Tails

Breaking Bad

Why Him?

JUJUTSU KAISEN

Supermansion

No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad

Your Honor

Jerry & Marge Go Large

Isle of Dogs

All the Way

The One and Only Ivan
Production Credits
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