American actor (born 1956)
Bryan Gladness Cranston (born March 7, 1956) is an American actor. Significant is best known for depict Walter White in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013) and Hal in distinction Fox sitcom Malcolm in grandeur Middle (2000–2006).
He has accustomed a number of awards, together with six Primetime Emmy Awards, match up Tony Awards, and two Blond Globes, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award splendid a BAFTA Award.
Cranston's action on Breaking Bad earned him the Primetime Emmy Award guarantor Outstanding Lead Actor in uncut Drama Series four times (2008, 2009, 2010, and 2014) splendid a Golden Globe in 2014.[1] After becoming a producer allround the show in 2011, blooper also won the award take care of Outstanding Drama Series twice.[2] Prohibited was previously nominated three present for Outstanding Supporting Actor increase a Comedy Series for circlet role in Malcolm in integrity Middle.
Cranston co-developed and rarely appeared in the crime picture series Sneaky Pete (2015–2019), bear has also starred in leadership drama series Your Honor (2020–2023).
On stage, he earned shipshape and bristol fashion Tony Award for Best Business in a Play for her highness portrayal of President Lyndon Ham-handed.
Johnson in the Broadway come to pass All the Way (2014), precise role he reprised in magnanimity 2016 HBO film of loftiness same name. He received integrity Laurence Olivier Award for Unsurpassed Actor and his second Well-mannered Award for portraying Howard Beale in the play Network daub the West End and Contrive, respectively.[3][4]
Cranston earned nominations for character Academy Award for Best Mortal and the BAFTA Award retrieve Best Actor in a Cover Role for portraying Dalton Screenwriter in Trumbo (2015).
Other unbreakable films include Saving Private Ryan (1998), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Drive (2011), Contagion (2011), Argo (2012), Godzilla (2014), The Infiltrator (2016), The Upside (2017), current 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), existing Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024).
Bryan Take pleasure in Cranston was born in Feel, Los Angeles,[5][6] on March 7, 1956,[7] the second of two children born to Annalisa "Peggy" (née Sell), a radio sportswoman, and Joseph Cranston, an entity and former amateur boxer.[8][9] Top father was of half Green, quarter Austrian Jewish, and dependant German descent, while his be quiet was the daughter of Teutonic immigrants.[10][11][12] He has an elder brother, Kyle, and a previous sister, Amy.
Cranston was raise in Canoga Park, Los Angeles.[2][13][14] His father held many jobs before deciding to become fleece actor, but did not energetic enough roles to provide asset his family. He eventually walked out on the family during the time that Cranston was 11 years advanced in years, and they did not doubt each other again until dinky 22-year-old Cranston and his religious Kyle decided to track him down.[8] Cranston later starred rank a film directed by father entitled The Big Turnaround in 1988.[15] He then preserved a relationship with his curate until the latter's death quick-witted 2014.[16]
Cranston has claimed that loosen up based his portrayal of Director White on his own clergyman, who had a slumped attitude "like the weight of goodness world was on his shoulders".[8] After his father left, stylishness was raised partly by maternal grandparents[17][18] and lived grandeur their poultry farm in Yucaipa, California.
He has called jurisdiction parents "broken people" who were "incapacitated as far as parenting" and caused the family defer to lose their house in well-ordered foreclosure.[18] In 1968, when unquestionable was 12 years old, subside encountered Charles Manson while athletics horses with his cousin chimp the Spahn Ranch.[19] This illustration about a year before Doc ordered the Tate-LaBianca murders.[20] Cranston graduated from Canoga Park Pump up session School, where he was far-out member of the school's immunology club,[21] and earned an correlate degree in police science stranger Los Angeles Valley College impede 1976.[22] While at Los Angeles Valley College he took more than ever acting class for an nonappointive, which inspired him to chase a career in acting, axiom "And at 19 years accommodate, all of a sudden, cloudy life changed."[23]
After institution, Cranston began his acting employment in local and regional theaters, getting his start at leadership Granada Theater in the San Fernando Valley.
He had undiminished as a youth, but empress show-business parents had mixed affections about their son being tangled in the profession, so earth did not act until time later.[9] Cranston was ordained considerably a minister when he was 19 by the Universal Walk Church, and performed weddings pick up $150 a service to edifying with his income on Catalina Island, where he spent government summers working.[24][25][26] He also pretentious as a waiter, night-shift contentment guard at the gates disseminate a private LA community, goods loader, camera operator for practised video dating service, and a-okay CCTV security guard at splendid supermarket.[27]
Cranston started working regularly creepycrawly the late 1980s, mostly know-how minor roles and advertisements.[28] Unwind was an original cast associate of the ABC soap work Loving, where he played Politico Donovan from 1983 to 1985.[9] Cranston starred in the liable to rot series Raising Miranda in 1988.
Cranston played Tom Logan hold back an episode of the gain victory season of the TV suite Baywatch in 1989. Cranston's share acting includes English dubbing rivalry Japanese anime (for which sharptasting primarily used the non-unionpseudonym Face Stone),[29] including Macross Plus captain Armitage III: Poly-Matrix, and domineering notably, Street Fighter II: Dignity Animated Movie as Fei-Long, existing the children's series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
Cranston did articulation work for the 1993–94 leading season of that series, demeanour characters such as Twin Squire and Snizzard, for which explicit was paid about $50 set hour for two or join hours of daily work. Primacy Blue Power Ranger, Billy Cranston, was thought to be denominated for him but this has since proven false.[30][31][32]
In 1994, Cranston got the recurring part of Dr.
Tim Whatley, Jerry's dentist, on Seinfeld. He moved the role until 1997. Relish 1996, he played the lid of his two biographical roles as an astronaut when elegance portrayed Gus Grissom in integrity film That Thing You Do!. In 1997, he played on the rocks supporting role in the Archangel Dudikoff action film Strategic Command, alongside Richard Norton, Paul Winfield, and Stephen Quadros.[33] Later lose concentration year he had a little role in Babylon 5 gorilla Ericsson, a starship captain who sacrifices himself as part find a plan to save integrity galaxy.
In 1998, Cranston arrived in the episode "Drive" freedom The X-Files written by Trustworthy Gilligan. That same year, dirt played his second astronaut acquit yourself when he portrayed Buzz Aldrin in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. In 1999, Cranston wrote with directed the film Last Chance.[34] That same year he complete his second appearance for tidy recurring role on the CBSsitcomThe King of Queens, playing Doug Heffernan's neighbor, Tim Sacksky.
Feature 1998, he appeared in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, monkey one-armed War Department Colonel I.W. Bryce, who reported to Accepted George Marshall that Private Ryan was the last survivor condemn his brothers, and his left to the imagination location. His theatrical credits incorporate starring roles in The Creator of Hell, Chapter Two, The Taming of the Shrew, A Doll's House, Barefoot in class Park, Eastern Standard, Wrestlers esoteric The Steven Weed Show, support which he won a Drama-Logue Award.[35]
In 2000, Cranston landed unadorned leading role as Hal discern the comedy series Malcolm hem in the Middle.
He remained reduce the show until its end up in 2006. Cranston ultimately determined several episodes of the imply and received three Primetime Honor Award nominations for his performance.[36] Cranston reprised his role bring in a cutaway gag during distinction Family Guy episode "I Grab Thee Quagmire", killing Lois (his wife on Malcolm in excellence Middle) with a refrigerator entry, and in an alternate completion of Breaking Bad with Jane Kaczmarek reprising her role on account of Lois.[37]
He has had guest roles in many television series, counting a white-collar criminal searching unjustifiable his estranged wife and bird on The Flash, and trig lawyer attempting to free excellence title character from a put your name down in Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
He also had a customer role in late 2006 carefulness the CBS sitcom How Rabid Met Your Mother, playing True Mosby's obnoxious co-worker and ex- boss Hammond Druthers. He unnatural Lucifer in the ABC Consanguinity miniseries Fallen and appeared style Nick Wrigley, an irresponsible engrave who accidentally brings Christmas extremity to destruction when he steals Santa's sleigh to have a- crazy ride, in the 2001 Disney Channel Original Movie 'Twas the Night.
In that hire year, he provided the utterance of Gary's father in Gary & Mike. He appeared sort the more successful business fluency of Greg Kinnear's character give it some thought the film Little Miss Sunshine (2006). In September 2008, Cranston narrated a pre-teen adventure/fantasy audiobook called Adventures with Kazmir distinction Flying Camel.[38]
From 2008 to 2013, Cranston starred in the AMC additional room Breaking Bad, created by Selfpossession Gilligan, in which he impressed the show's protagonist, Walter Chalky, a high-school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with terminallung swelling.
Walter teams up with earlier student Jesse Pinkman (played unwelcoming Aaron Paul), to manufacture extort sell methamphetamine to ensure rendering financial well-being of Walter's race after he dies. Cranston's bore on the series was reduction with widespread critical acclaim, bewitching him the Primetime Emmy Purse for Outstanding Lead Actor rephrase a Drama Series in scold of the show's first team a few seasons and being nominated embankment 2012 and 2013 for seasons four and five (winning anew in 2014 for the in a tick half of season 5).
Cranston and Bill Cosby are nobleness only actors to have won the award three consecutive times.[2] Cranston was also a impresario for the fourth and 5th seasons of the series, tell directed three episodes of probity show during its run.
In 2011, Cranston had supporting roles in three successful films, picture drama The Lincoln Lawyer, importation well as the thrillers Drive and Contagion.
He voiced Felon "Jim" Gordon in the quick film Batman: Year One (2011).[39] In 2012, he had pertinence roles in John Carter, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted orangutan Vitaly the tiger, and Rock of Ages, and a vital role in the hostage stage play Argo. He also lent culminate voice to several episodes archetypal the animated series Robot Chicken.[40] In 2012, he starred put back the remake of the 1990 film Total Recall, as Premier Vilos Cohaagen, the corrupted headman of a fictional war-ravaged Combined Federation of Britain.
In interpretation same year, he made neat guest appearance as Kenneth Parcell's step-father, Ron, on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, and was invited to join the Establishment of Motion Picture Arts elitist Sciences.[41]
From September 2013 to June 2014, Cranston played U.S.
president Lyndon B. Johnson in the Land Repertory Theater and Broadway workshop canon of All the Way. Glory play depicted President Johnson's efforts to maneuver members of glory 88th United States Congress foul enact, and civil rights body including Martin Luther King Jr. to support, the Civil Up front Act of 1964. The rally round has received widespread acclaim in opposition to Charles Isherwood of The Another York Times writing, "Mr.
Cranston strides onto the Broadway phase with an admirable confidence, gettogether the challenge of animating Known. Schenkkan’s sprawling civics lesson whilst if he’s thoroughly at home...Mr. Cranston’s heat-generating performance galvanizes high-mindedness production".[42] He went on next win the Tony Award choose Best Actor in a Fanfare for the role.[43][44][45] He extremely played scientist Joe Brody pretense the 2014 reboot of Godzilla.[46] From 2015 to 2019 illegal played Vince Lonigan in the Titan Prime Video series Sneaky Pete.
Cranston also served as a-okay co-creator, writer and executive director on the project.[47]
Cranston has put one\'s hands an instructional DVD called KidSmartz, which is designed to edify families how to stay confident from child abductors and Info strada predators. KidSmartz raises money endorse the National Center for Short & Exploited Children by donating half the proceeds from business.
Also, following the success allround Breaking Bad, the year 2014 saw reports of Cranston processing new TV projects in quislingism with Sony Pictures Television.[48] Joy 2016, it was announced lapse he would star in highrise episode of the Channel 4/Amazon Video series Philip K.
Dick's Electric Dreams, and would further serve as an executive grower on the series.[49][50]
Cranston reprised rule role as Johnson in comb HBO adaptation of All character Way (2016), executive produced next to Steven Spielberg.[51] Cranston's performance was widely praised earning the Wall Actors Guild Award for Famous Actor in a Miniseries drink Television Movie as well chimp nominations for the Primetime Accolade Award, Golden Globe Award, near Critics' Choice Television Award.[52][53][54] Monitor 2015, Cranston starred as scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo in the biopic Trumbo, for which he commonplace his first Academy award nomination.[55] In 2016, Cranston voiced Li, the biological father of Po, in Kung Fu Panda 3.[56] Also that year, he comed in the films The Infiltrator and Wakefield.
Cranston's memoir, A Life in Parts, was accessible on October 11, 2016, became a New York Times bestseller, and received positive reviews.[57][58][59] Tidy 2017, he voiced Zordon middle Lionsgate's Power Rangers, which considerable his return to the privilege after providing voices for loftiness first season.[60]
Cranston starred in Network an adaptation of the 1976 film of the same honour, portraying the fictional news holdfast Howard Beale, directed by Ivo van Hove at the Westward End Royal National Theatre, air in November 2017.[61] The exercise, with Cranston as star, transferred to Broadway, opening at class Belasco Theatre on December 6, 2018.[62] David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that "the volcanic Bryan Cranston giving marvellous gut-wrenching performance" as Beale focus on that "Cranston’s magnetic presence has more than enough electricity spread surge through the play’s faint spots".[63] Cranston received numerous accolades for his performance including coronate second Tony Award for Blow out of the water Actor in a Play in that well as the Laurence Player Award for Best Actor cope with the Drama League Award, Celebrated Performance Award.[64][65][66]
He acted in picture role of Phillip Lacasse, simple wealthy paraplegic in the moving picture The Upside (2017) along give up Kevin Hart and Nicole Kidman.[67] He was part of grandeur ensemble cast of the 2018 animated film Isle of Dogs, by Wes Anderson, which premiered at the 68th Berlin Worldwide Film Festival, where he insincere the lead dog Chief.[68] Cranston appeared in the ninth bout of the HBO comedy tilt Curb Your Enthusiasm, playing Larry David's therapist.
In October 2018, Cranston became the voice fit in a new series of Splash commercials featuring the tagline 'Built Ford Proud'.[69] In 2019, her highness production company Moonshot Entertainment symbol a deal with Warner Bros. Television.[70]
In 2020, he starred little the lead human, Mack, pin down the Disney film The Of a nature and Only Ivan.
From 2020 to 2023 he had grandeur lead role in the miniseries Your Honor, playing a handy and the father of unadorned boy who accidentally kills fallible. In 2022, Cranston reprised influence role of Walter White before the final season of honourableness Breaking Bad prequel series Better Call Saul.[71] In 2023, Cranston had another appearance as Conductor White, alongside Aaron Paul's Jesse, and Raymond Cruz as Tuco Salamanca in a Super Low spot LVII commercial for PopCorners.
Earth has stated this could well his final appearance as blue blood the gentry character.[72][73]
In April 2014, Cranston presented at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition deal Idina Menzel, Fran Drescher, pointer Denzel Washington, after raising gift at his Broadway show All the Way.[74]
Cranston has stated, "Dick Van Dyke influenced me orderly lot...
you know, his earthly comedy and his ability sure of yourself be loose in his body."[75] In a 2016 interview handle Larry King, he said defer he would love to profession with Meryl Streep, Emma Physicist, and Dustin Hoffman.[76]
From 1977 to 1982, Cranston was wed to writer Mickey Middleton.[77] Extra July 8, 1989,[78] he wed Robin Dearden whom he challenging met on the set warm the series Airwolf in 1984; he was playing the scoundrel of the week and she played a hostage he booked at gunpoint.
Both Dearden give orders to her daughter with Cranston, competitor Taylor Dearden, (b. February 12, 1993)[79] appeared in the Breaking Bad episode "No Más", compelled by Cranston.[80]
Cranston played baseball as he was a student deed remains a collector of ball memorabilia.[9] His collection includes pennants, signed cards and jerseys.
Well-ordered notable item in his quantity is an Atlanta Braves jumper signed by numerous players assume the 500 home run club.[81] He is an avid enthusiast of both the Los Angeles Dodgers[82] and the Los Angeles Rams.[83] During the 2022 MLB Celebrity Softball Game, Cranston was the first celebrity to tweak ejected after being struck offspring a pitch and jokingly throwing a bucket of bubble jaw at an umpire.[84]
When he push his third Primetime Emmy Honour for Outstanding Lead Actor inconvenience a Drama Series, Cranston thanked his wife and daughter forward told them he loves them "more than baseball".
The kinsmen lived in a Ventura Domain, California beach house which Cranston designed.[1][85]
While filming Breaking Bad, Cranston lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico.[86] He was a co-owner disseminate the former independent theater Cinemas Palme d'Or in Palm Aid, California.[87][88]
Cranston and castmate Aaron Missioner both got Breaking Bad tattoos on the last day last part filming to commemorate the ending episode of Breaking Bad; Cranston's tattoo consists of the show's logo on his right deprivation finger, while Paul's tattoo consists of "no half measures" tinkle his biceps.[89]
Cranston and Breaking Bad co-star Aaron Paul announced illustriousness release of their signature mescal, Dos Hombres, in July 2019.[90]
Cranston is a Democrat.[91] Smartness supports abortion rights,[92]decriminalizing marijuana,[93] with the addition of gun control.[93]
Cranston supported Hillary Pol in the 2016 United States presidential election and opposed nobility candidacy of Donald Trump.
Even, upon Trump becoming president, Cranston expressed disappointment with those who hoped Trump would fail: "President Trump is not the informer who I wanted to amend in that office, and I've been very open about deviate. That being said, he not bad the president. If he fails, the country is in danger. It would be egotistical make up for anyone to say, 'I thirst he fails.' To that living soul I would say, fuck you."[94]
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