Brian Cox, also known as B. E. Cox or popularly referred to as the 'rockstar physicist' (born 3 March 1968, Oldham, Lancashire, England), is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the High Energy Physics group at the University of Manchester, and works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. He is best known to the public as the presenter of a number of science programmes for the BBC. He also had some fame in the early 1990s as keyboard player in the UK pop band D:Ream.
His father was of Irish ancestry, while his mother was of Irish and Scottish ancestry.
Has a son, Alan Cox , who starred in Young Sherlock Holmes .
Is the first actor to portray Dr. Hannibal Lecter on the screen.
He was awarded the CBE in the 2003 Queens New Years Honours List for his services to drama.
Has played Hannibal Lecter in the mystery thriller Manhunter . In 2002, he co-starred with Edward Norton and Philip Seymour Hoffman in the film 25th Hour . In 2002, Norton and Hoffman also starred in Red Dragon , which was a remake of Manhunter .
He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1985 (1984 season) for Best Actor in a New Play for "Rat in the Skull".
He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1989 (1988 season) for Best Actor in a Revival for "Titus Andronicus".
Has two children: Alan Cox (a professional actor) and Margaret Cox, from his 18-year marriage to Caroline Burt (they divorced in 1986). A second son was born January 31, 2002 from his wife Nicole Ansari-Cox.
He was awarded the 1987 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actor for his performances in "The Taming of the Shrew", "Titus Andronicus" and "Fashion".
He was awarded the 1984 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actor for his performances in "Rat in the Skull" and "Strange Interlude".
He does not watch or view his own work.
Rarely plays characters who are sympathetic or likable, from his egotistical take on Robert McKee in Adaptation. to the robust evil in his portrayal of Agamemnon in Troy . However, he has gone against type and played several likable characters, such as the gruff yet honorable Uncle Argyle in Braveheart and the lovable, paternal Police Chief John OHagan in Super Troopers .
Has performed in several movies playing a government official in which another actor has amnesia but later discovers they are secret government assassins: The Long Kiss Goodnight where the amnesia victim is actress Geena Davis , The Bourne Identity with Matt Damon having the amnesia, and also X2 where the victim is played by Hugh Jackman.
Has no fewer than three roles in common with Anthony Hopkins. They have both played Titus Andronicus, and both of them played King Lear while the other was simultaneously playing Hannibal Lecter.
Alumnus of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
The scene in X2 where Magneto escapes from prison is modeled after Hannibal Lecters escape in The Silence of the Lambs - the sequel to Coxs film Manhunter , in which he played Lecter.
Member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in Stratford Upon Avon, England, where he is most recognized for his performance of "King Lear".
After graduating from LAMDA, he spent several seasons with the Royal National Theatre in London, England.
Has appeared with Joan Allen in Manhunter . Each of them later went on to work with the others successor. Coxs successor as Lecter, Anthony Hopkins , appeared in Nixon with Allen. Cox worked with Allens successor, Emily Watson , in The Boxer .
Backed out of his contract after filming the second of the BBC/Celtic Sharpe series of films after complaining of poor working conditions in the Ukraine as well as becoming repeatedly sick because of them. He was replaced by Michael Byrne , who was featured in the next three Sharpe films.
Although it is indicated in X2 that his character (William Stryker) is at least 20 years older than Bruce Davison s character (Senator Robert Kelly), in real life, he is only 27 days older.
Has worked with two Eomers. In the Sharpe films ( Sharpes Eagle and Sharpes Rifles ), with Sean Bean , he appears with Anthony Hyde , who played the role in the BBC radio broadcast. In The Bourne Supremacy , he appears with Karl Urban , who played the role in Peter Jackson s films.
Has appeared in two films about legendary Scottish heroes: Braveheart and Rob Roy .
His second son, Torin Kamran Charles Cox, was born October 2004.
Has appeared in Manhunter with Joan Allen , they went on to work together 18 years later on the movie The Bourne Supremacy .
Based his portrayal of Dr. Hannibal Lecter on Scottish serial killer Peter Manuel.
His father, Charles McArdle Campbell Cox, died when he was age 9.
Is the youngest of five children.
[2009] Owns two Toyota Prius cars - one for use at his American residence and one for his British home.
Was elected Rector of Dundee University (Scotland), the city of his birth, and took up the position in spring 2010.
Was engaged to actress/theatre director Irina Brook.
Manhunter was remade as Red Dragon , the original title of the novel on which it is based. Cox has appeared in films with several actors from the remake. He appeared with Edward Norton and Philip Seymour Hoffman in 25th Hour , with Emily Watson in The Boxer and The Water Horse , Mary-Louise Parker and Anthony Hopkins in RED and RED 2 , and Ralph Fiennes in Coriolanus . Frankie Faison appeared in both films.
Among the actors thought suitable for the role of Roger Derebridge in the science fiction horror film Lifeforce . The role eventually went to Nicholas Ball.
Has won two prestigious Laurence Olivier Best Actor Awards for performances on Londons West End stage - "Rat in the Skull" and Shakespeares "Titus Andronicus".
Although Cox has been vocal about his support for Scottish independence, he did not qualify to have a vote in the 2014 referendum due to his status as a resident of the United States.
Has replaced Tommy Lee Jones in two consecutive 1996 releases: Chain Reaction and The Glimmer Man .
Lives in New York City.
He was a lifelong supporter of the Labor party but has since switched to supporting the Scottish National Party.
As of 2017, has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Nicholas and Alexandra , Braveheart and Her . Of those, Braveheart is a winner in the category.
He played William Wallace in "Churchills People" {The Wallace (#1.10)} and his father Argyle Wallace in Braveheart .
In 1995, he appeared in two films revolving historical Scottish figures who fought with British forces: Rob Roy and Braveheart .
Was not only the first of three actors to play Hannibal Lecter, he was also the first of them to appear in a film based on a Marvel comic book, each of which would make reference to Lecter. Magnetos escape in X2 was modeled after Lecters escape in The Silence of the Lambs . Anthony Hopkins plays the father of Loki in Thor and its sequels; Loki himself played a scene opposite Black Widow in which he is trapped behind glass, not unlike Lecter and Clarice Starling. They are also discussing Bruce Banner, a character previously played by Edward Norton. Mads Mikkelsen wears a face mask resembling Lecters in Doctor Strange .
Is a particle physicist and professor at the University of Manchester. He is also a member of the team on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.
In a previous career he was the keyboardist in the synthpop dance band D:Ream who performed at the 1997 victory party of the New Labour at the Royal Festival Hall, London, England.
He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2010 Queens Birthday Honours List for his services to Science. He is the Professor of Particle Physics and Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Manchester in Manchester, England.
(June 2010) Oldham, Lancashire, England
In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when,I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is,really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.
As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a,working-class Scottish home. I thought, "I want to do movies. " Then it,was finding the means to do it.
Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is,full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat,you and sting you.
The heritage of a British actor revolves around the challenges of,playing the classic roles to meet certain levels of success as an,actor. In America, the heritage of an actor is based on cinema mainly.
The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present,time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing,industry. In doing this, the audiences have lost touch with the aspects,of film which were to be informative and educational and even,spiritual.
Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose,these days. When I first started in this profession - about a hundred,years ago in the last century - it was all about taking risks, it was,about doing the job and honing the craft.
There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never,happen to me but it has happened to others in the family.
We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
There are three known planets in the PSR B1257 system, which have been named Draugr, Poltergeist and Phobetor. Poltergeist was the first to be discovered. I know, I was curious about their names as well. Poletrgeist means "pounding ghost". The draugr are the unded in Norse legends who live in their graves. And Phobetor is the personification of nightmares, and the son of Nyx, Greek goddess of the night. Astronomers are goths.
Science is most definitely not a priesthood where people stand on a mountain and pass truths down to the waiting minions below.
You are exporting disorder [in the form of heat into the Universe] now as you read this book. You are hastening the demise of everything that exists, bringing forward by your very existence the arrival of time known as the heat death, when all stars have died, all black holes have evaporated away and the entirety of creation is a uniform bath of photons incapable of storing a single bit of information about the glorious adolescence of our wonderful Universe.
The scientific creation story has majesty, power and beauty. and is infused with a powerful message capable of lifting our spirits in a way that its multitudinous supernatural counterparts are incapable of matching. It teaches us that we are the products of 13. 7 billion years of cosmic evolution and the mechanism by which meaning entered the universe, if only for a fleeting moment in time. Because the universe means something to me, and the fact that we are all agglomerations of quarks and electrons in a complex and fragile pattern that can perceive the beauty of the universe with visceral wonder, is, I think, a thought worth raising a glass to this Christmas.
Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.
