Brian Cox, an Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner, is a Scottish actor who rose to prominence after playing King Lear in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of King Lear. On HBO’s satirical comedy-drama Succession, the actor plays Logan Roy, a media magnate.

St Mary’s Forebank Primary School was where I studied.

Brian Cox was born in Dundee, Scotland, on June 1, 1946. His nationality is Scottish, and his zodiac sign is Gemini. He is of Irish and Scottish ancestry and comes from a Roman Catholic household.

His father, Charles McArdle Campbell Cox, worked as a butcher and grocer, while his mother, Mary Ann Guillerline (née McCann), was a jute mill spinner. His father passed away while he was only eight years old.
Brian also attended St Michael’s Junior Secondary School before enrolling at St Mary’s Forebank Primary School. He spent two years at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art when he was seventeen years old.

In the film ‘Succession,’ he played Logan Roy.

Brian Cox, who stands 5 feet 6 inches tall, began his acting career in 1965 as Nelson in the television series The Wednesday Play. The next year, he appeared in the TV series Redcap as a private carr. The Gamblers, Minding the Shop, and Z Cars are among his other early television series. He earned a Primetime Emmy Award for his role as Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring in the mini-series Nuremberg in 2000.

Cox portrayed Jack Langrishe in the television series Deadwood in 2006. In the action-drama film Rise of the Planet of the Apes, he played John Landon. In terms of his work, he presently stars opposite Hiam Abbass, Kieran Culkin, Alan Ruck, and Sarah Snook in the drama Succession as Logan Roy.

With a net worth of $10 million, she is one of the wealthiest people on the planet

Brian Cox, 73, is a Scottish actor who has amassed a sizable fortune as a result of his professional acting career. As of February 2020, he has an estimated net worth of $10 million, according to the celebrity net worth website.

Cox starred in Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 directorial picture Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which was shot on a shoestring budget of $93 million and grossed $481.8 million worldwide. Brian is also now residing in the penthouse of a high-rise condominium in Downtown Brooklyn. It’s a 51st-floor apartment with three bedrooms, a wide west-facing patio, and plenty of light.

Personal Life

Married Nicole Ansari is a well-known actress. Brian Cox has married twice since his divorce from Caroline Burt. Currently, he is married to Nicole Ansari. In a small wedding ceremony in 2002, the two married. His wife is a German actress who has been performing professionally since the age of nine. On January 31, 2002, the couple welcomed their first child, a son named Orson Cox. In 2004, Ansari gave birth to their second son, Torin Kamran Charles Cox. Cox was previously married to Caroline Burt before marrying Nicole Ansari. In 1968, the two exchanged wedding vows, but their marriage was short-lived, and they divorced in 1986. Alan Cox (born August 6, 1970) and Margaret Cox were the couple’s two children.