• Brian Cox, CBE, is a BAFTA and Emmy Award winning and Golden Globe-nominated Scottish actor. He is the first actor to portray Hannibal Lecter in the Michael Mann film, Manhunter.

• 1. Full Name: Brian Denis Cox
  2. Born: June 1, 1946
  3. Place of Birth: Dundee, Scotland
  4. Joined the Dundee Repertory Theatre at the age of fourteen
  5. Trained at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
  6. Mother suffered numerous nervous breakdowns as a child
  7. His son, Alex Cox, is also an actor

• Life and Career

  Brian Cox was born in Dundee, Scotland. His mother was a spinner who suffered from nervous breakdowns and his father was a weaver who died when Cox was nine years old. As a result Cox was primarily raised by his sister and his aunt.

  He joined the Dundee Repertory Theatre when he was fourteen and later went on to receive formal training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After graduation, he appeared in a number of films, but his big break came in 1986 when he starred as the character of Hannibal Lecter in Michael Mann's Man Hunter.

  Following that his next big appearances on screen were in Braveheart (1995), X2 (2003), Troy (2004), and The Bourne Supremacy (2004).

  In 2008 he is set to appear in The Escapist opposite Joseph Fiennes.

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