{"id":197,"date":"2026-07-06T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemoviesnight.com\/?movie_engine_person=bryan-cranston"},"modified":"2026-07-06T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:07:00","slug":"bryan-cranston","status":"publish","type":"movie_engine_person","link":"https:\/\/lovemoviesnight.com\/?movie_engine_person=bryan-cranston","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Cranston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Lee Cranston\u00a0(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\u00a0works on stage and screen. He has received\u00a0several accolades, including seven\u00a0Primetime Emmy Awards, a\u00a0Golden Globe Award, a\u00a0Laurence Olivier Award, and two\u00a0Tony Awards, as well as nominations for an\u00a0Academy Award\u00a0and a\u00a0BAFTA Award.<\/p>\n<p>Cranston first gained prominence playing\u00a0Hal\u00a0in the\u00a0Fox\u00a0sitcom\u00a0Malcolm in the Middle\u00a0(2000\u20132006), for which he was nominated for the\u00a0Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He gained stardom for his dramatic leading role playing\u00a0Walter White\u00a0in the\u00a0AMC\u00a0crime drama series\u00a0Breaking Bad\u00a0(2008\u20132013), for which he won the\u00a0Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series\u00a0four times (2008,\u00a02009,\u00a02010, and\u00a02014).\u00a0He was Emmy-nominated for\u00a0All the Way\u00a0(2016) and\u00a0Curb Your Enthusiasm (2018). Cranston co-developed and appeared in the crime drama series\u00a0Sneaky Pete\u00a0(2015\u20132019), and has also starred in the drama series\u00a0Your Honor\u00a0(2020\u20132023).<\/p>\n<p>On stage, he earned a\u00a0Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play\u00a0for his portrayal of President\u00a0Lyndon B. Johnson\u00a0in the\u00a0Broadway\u00a0play\u00a0All the Way\u00a0(2014), a role he reprised in the 2016\u00a0HBO film of the same name. He received the\u00a0Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor\u00a0and his second Tony Award for portraying\u00a0Howard Beale\u00a0in the play\u00a0Network\u00a0on the West End and Broadway, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Cranston earned nominations for the\u00a0Academy Award\u00a0and the\u00a0BAFTA Award for Best Actor\u00a0for portraying\u00a0Dalton Trumbo\u00a0in the\u00a0Hollywood blacklist\u00a0drama\u00a0Trumbo\u00a0(2015). Other notable films include\u00a0Saving Private Ryan\u00a0(1998),\u00a0Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Drive (2011), Contagion\u00a0(2011),\u00a0Argo\u00a0(2012),\u00a0Godzilla\u00a0(2014),\u00a0The Infiltrator\u00a0(2016),\u00a0The Upside\u00a0(2017),\u00a0Last Flag Flying\u00a0(2017),\u00a0Isle of Dogs\u00a0(2018),\u00a0Asteroid City\u00a0(2023), and\u00a0The Phoenician Scheme\u00a0(2025). He has also voiced roles in\u00a0Madagascar 3\u00a0(2012),\u00a0Kung Fu Panda 3\u00a0(2016), and\u00a0Kung Fu Panda 4\u00a0(2024).<\/p>\n<p>Description above from the Wikipedia article Bryan Cranston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Lee Cranston\u00a0(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\u00a0works on stage and screen. 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