Bryan Lee Cranston is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his roles as Walter White in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad, Tim Whatley in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, Hal in the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, and Vince Lonigan in Sneaky Pete. In 2014, Cranston earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his portrayal of president Lyndon B. Johnson in the Broadway play All the Way. In 2018, he received the Laurence Olivier Award for best actor in a play for playing Howard Beale in the play Network at London’s National Theatre.
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Bryan Lee Cranston is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his roles as Walter White in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad, Tim Whatley in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, Hal in the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, and Vince Lonigan in Sneaky Pete. He has also appeared in several acclaimed films, such as Saving Private Ryan, Little Miss Sunshine, Drive, Argo, Godzilla, and The Upside. Cranston was ordained as a minister by the Universal Life Church, and performed voice acting in the films Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, Kung Fu Panda 3, and Isle of Dogs. He was an original cast member of the ABC soap opera Loving, where he played Douglas Donovan from 1983 to 1985. In 2014, Cranston earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his portrayal of president Lyndon B. Johnson in the Broadway play All the Way. In 2018, he received the Laurence Olivier Award for best actor in a play for playing Howard Beale in the play Network at London’s National Theatre. He also won his second Tony Award for playing the same role on Broadway. In 1968, when he was 12 years old, he encountered Charles Manson while riding horses with his cousin at the Spahn Ranch. This happened about a year before Manson ordered the Tate-LaBianca murders. His father held many jobs before deciding to become an actor, but did not secure enough roles to provide for his family. After his father left, he was raised partly by his grandparents, living on their poultry farm in Yucaipa, California.
His parents were of Austrian-Jewish, German, and Irish descent, while his mother was the daughter of German immigrants. He graduated from Canoga Park High School and earned an associate’s degree in police science from Los Angeles Valley College in 1976. After college, he began his acting career in local and regional theaters, getting his start at the Granada Theater in the San Fernando Valley. He worked as a waiter, security guard at the gates of a private community community, and a camera operator for a dating service, and CCTV guard at a supermarket. In the late 1980s, mostly doing minor roles and advertisements, he started working regularly in the English dubbing industry. He later became an ordained minister. In 2010, he became an archbishop of the Universal Church in Los Angeles, California, and served as the church’s pastor until his death in 2014. In 2011, he also became a producer of the show Modern Family. In 2012, he co-created, executive produced, and wrote the story for the crime dramaseries Sneakyete. In 2013, he starred in the comedy drama series The Dangerous Book for Boys. He won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Award for his role in the film Trumbo. In 2015, he garnered acclaim and the nominations for the Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards for his performance as Dalton Trumbo in Saving Private Ryan.
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