Bryan Cranston - wikipedia Bryan Cranston Bryan Cranston Cranston at the 2014 Peabody Awards ( 1956 - 03 - 07 ) March 7, 1956 ( age 61 ) Hollywood, California, U.S. Residence Ventura County, California, U.S. Other names Lee Stone Phil Williams Occupation Actor, voice actor, producer, director, screenwriter Years active 1980 -- present Spouse ( s ) Mickey Middleton ( m. 1977 ; div. 1982 ) Robin Dearden ( m. 1989 ) Children Bryan Lee Cranston ( born March 7, 1956 ) is an American actor, voice actor, producer, director and screenwriter. He is best known for portraying Walter White on the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad, Hal on the Fox comedy series Malcolm in the Middle, and Dr. Tim Whatley on the NBC comedy series Seinfeld. For Breaking Bad, Cranston won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times ( 2008 -- 2010, 2014 ), including three consecutive wins ( the second time in television history after Bill Cosby in I Spy during the 1960s ). After becoming one of the producers of Breaking Bad in 2011, he also won the award for Outstanding Drama Series twice. Cranston was also nominated three times for the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in Malcolm in the Middle. His role in Breaking Bad also earned him five Golden Globe nominations and one win in 2014, nine Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations with four wins, and six Satellite Awards nominations with four wins. In June 2014, he won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his portrayal of Lyndon B. Johnson in the play All the Way on Broadway. He reprised his role in the television film of the same name, which debuted on HBO in May 2016. For the film Trumbo ( 2015 ), he received widespread acclaim and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Cranston has directed episodes of various television series, including seven episodes of Malcolm in the Middle, three episodes of Breaking Bad, two episodes of Modern Family, one episode of The Office, and one episode of Sneaky Pete. He has also appeared in several acclaimed films such as Saving Private Ryan ( 1998 ), Little Miss Sunshine ( 2006 ), Drive ( 2011 ), Argo ( 2012 ) and Godzilla ( 2014 ). In 2015, Cranston, together with David Shore, executive produced and wrote the story for the Amazon Studios original crime drama Sneaky Pete, the pilot episode of which aired on August 7, 2015. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Early work 2.2 Career breakthrough and Malcolm in the Middle 2.3 Breaking Bad and beyond 3 Charity 4 Personal life 5 Filmography 6 Awards and nominations 7 References 8 External links Early Life Bryan Lee Cranston was born on March 7, 1956 in Hollywood, California, the second of three children born to Audrey Peggy ( née Sell ; 1923 -- 2004 ), a radio actress, and Joseph Louis `` Joe '' Cranston ( 1924 -- 2014 ), an actor and former amateur boxer. His father was of Austrian, German, Irish, and Jewish descent, while his maternal grandparents were German immigrants. He was raised in Canoga Park, California. Cranston 's father held many jobs before deciding to become an actor, but did not secure enough roles to provide for his family. He eventually walked out on the family when Cranston was 11 years old, and they did not see each other again until 11 years later, when Cranston and his brother decided to track their father down. Cranston was 22 at the time, and he and his father maintained a relationship until his father 's death in 2014. Cranston has claimed that he based his portrayal of Walter White on his own father, who had a slumped posture `` like the weight of the world was on his shoulders ''. After his father left, he was raised partly by his grandparents, living on their poultry farm in Yucaipa, California. He has called his parents `` broken people '' who were `` incapacitated as far as parenting '' -- they caused the family to lose their house in a foreclosure. During his preteen years, he encountered a young Charles Manson while riding horses at the Spahn Ranch. This happened about a year before Manson committed the Tate - LaBianca murders. Cranston graduated from Canoga Park High School, where he was a member of the school 's chemistry club, and earned an associate 's degree in police science from Los Angeles Valley College in 1976. Career Cranston in 2008 Early work After college, Cranston began his acting career in local and regional theaters, getting his start at the Granada Theater in the San Fernando Valley. He had previously performed as a youth, but his show business parents had mixed feelings about their son being involved in the profession, so he did not continue until years later. Cranston was ordained as a minister by the Universal Life Church, and performed weddings for $150 a service to help with his income. He started working regularly in the late 1980s, mostly doing minor roles and advertisements. He was an original cast member of the ABC soap opera Loving, where he played Douglas Donovan from 1983 to 1985. Cranston starred in the short - lived series Raising Miranda in 1988. Cranston 's voice acting includes English dubbing of Japanese anime ( under the pseudonym Lee Stone ), including Macross Plus and Armitage III : Poly - Matrix, and most notably, the children 's series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Cranston did voice work for the 1993 - 94 first season of that series, playing characters such as Twin Man and Snizzard, for which he was paid about $50.00 an hour for two or three hours of daily work. The Blue Power Ranger, Billy Cranston, was named for him. Career breakthrough and Malcolm in the Middle From 1994 to 1997, Cranston made a handful of appearances as Dr. Tim Whatley, Jerry 's dentist, on Seinfeld. In 1996, he played his second astronaut when he portrayed Gus Grissom in the film That Thing You Do ! In 1997, Cranston had a small role in Babylon 5 as Ericsson. In 1998, Cranston appeared in an episode of The X-Files written by Vince Gilligan. That same year, he portrayed astronaut Buzz Aldrin in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. In 1999, Cranston wrote and directed the film Last Chance. That same year he made his second appearance for a recurring role on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens, playing Doug Heffernan 's neighbor, Tim Sacksky. In 1998, he appeared in Steven Spielberg 's Saving Private Ryan, as War Department Colonel I.W. Bryce, who insisted that Private Ryan be rescued. His theatrical credits include starring roles in The God of Hell, Chapter Two, The Taming of the Shrew, A Doll 's House, Barefoot in the Park, Eastern Standard, Wrestlers and The Steven Weed Show, for which he won a Drama - Logue Award. In 2000, Cranston landed a leading role as Hal on the comedy series Malcolm in the Middle. He would remain with the show until its end in 2006. Cranston ended up directing several episodes of the show and received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performance. Cranston reprised his role in a cutaway gag during the Family Guy episode `` I Take Thee Quagmire '', killing Lois ( his wife on Malcolm in the Middle ) with a refrigerator door, and in a leaked alternate ending of Breaking Bad with Jane Kaczmarek reprising her role as Lois. Cranston at the 2012 San Diego Comic - Con International He has had guest roles in many television series, including a white - collar criminal searching for his estranged wife and daughter on The Flash, a lawyer attempting to free the title character from a contract in Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and a bigoted man being driven insane by extremely low frequency sonar waves in The X-Files episode `` Drive ''. He also had a guest role in late 2006 on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, playing Ted Mosby 's obnoxious co-worker and former boss Hammond Druthers. He played Lucifer in the ABC Family miniseries Fallen and appeared as Nick Wrigley, an irresponsible uncle who accidentally brings Christmas close to destruction when he steals Santa 's sleigh to have a crazy ride, in the 2001 Disney Channel Original Movie ' Twas the Night. He appeared as the more successful business colleague of Greg Kinnear 's character in the film Little Miss Sunshine ( 2006 ). In September 2008, Cranston narrated a pre-teen adventure / fantasy audiobook called Adventures with Kazmir the Flying Camel. Breaking Bad and beyond From 2008 to 2013, Cranston starred in the AMC series Breaking Bad, created by Vince Gilligan, in which he played Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Walter teams up with former student Jesse Pinkman ( played by Aaron Paul ), to manufacture and sell methamphetamine to ensure the well - being of Walter 's family after he dies. Cranston 's work on the series was met with widespread critical acclaim, winning him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in each of the show 's first three seasons and being nominated in 2012 and 2013 for seasons four and five ( winning again in 2014 for the second half of season 5 ). Cranston and Bill Cosby are the only actors to have won the award three consecutive times. Cranston was also a producer for the fourth and fifth seasons of the series, and directed three episodes of the show during its run. Cranston at the `` All the Way '' premiere at the LBJ Library in Austin In 2011, Cranston had supporting roles in three successful films, the drama The Lincoln Lawyer, as well as the thrillers Drive and Contagion. He voiced James Gordon in the animated film Batman : Year One ( 2011 ). In 2012, he had supporting roles in John Carter, Madagascar 3 : Europe 's Most Wanted as Vitaly the tiger, and Rock of Ages, and a major role in the hostage drama Argo. He also lent his voice to several episodes of the animated series Robot Chicken. In 2012, he starred in the remake of the 1990 film Total Recall, as Chancellor Vilos Cohaagen, the corrupted president of a fictional war - ravaged United Federation of Britain. In the same year, he made a guest appearance as Kenneth Parcell 's step - father, Ron, on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, and was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. From September 2013 to June 2014, Cranston played U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson in the American Repertory Theater and Broadway productions of All the Way, in a performance that has received widespread acclaim, and he later won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for the role. He also played scientist Joe Brody in the 2014 reboot of Godzilla. Cranston has produced an instructional DVD called KidSmartz, which is designed to teach families how to stay safe from child abductors and Internet predators. KidSmartz raises money for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children by donating half the proceeds from sales. Also, following the success of Breaking Bad, the year 2014 saw reports of Cranston developing new TV projects in collaboration with Sony Pictures Television. In 2016, it was announced that he would star in an episode of the Channel 4 / Amazon Video series Philip K. Dick 's Electric Dreams, and would also serve as an executive producer on the series. On July 16, 2014, it was announced that Cranston would star in an HBO adaptation of his hit play All the Way. Steven Spielberg was set to be an executive producer on the film. Following the film 's premiere on May 21, 2016, Cranston 's performance was widely praised by critics, garnering eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations and a Television Critics Choice Award nomination. In 2015, Cranston starred as screenwriter Dalton Trumbo in the biopic Trumbo, for which he received his first Academy award nomination. In 2016, Cranston voiced Li, the biological father of Po, in Kung Fu Panda 3. Also that year, he appeared in many films, including The Infiltrator and Wakefield. Cranston 's memoir, A Life in Parts, was published on October 11, 2016, became a New York Times bestseller, and received positive reviews. In 2017, he voiced Zordon in Lionsgate 's Power Rangers, which marked his return to the franchise after providing voices for the series ' first season. On January 27, 2017, it was announced that Cranston would star in a stage adaptation of the 1976 film Network playing Howard Beale, directed by Ivo van Hove at the Royal National Theatre in London, opening in November 2017. Charity In April 2014, Cranston presented at Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition with Idina Menzel, Fran Drescher, and Denzel Washington, after raising donations at his Broadway show All the Way. Personal Life Cranston and wife Robin Dearden, September 2008 From 1977 to 1982, Cranston was married to writer Mickey Middleton. At 33, he married Robin Dearden, whom he had met on the set of the series Airwolf in 1984. He was playing the villain of the week and she played the hostage he held at gunpoint. Their daughter, Taylor Dearden Cranston ( born 1993 ), is a theatre studies student at the University of Southern California and played an extra in the Breaking Bad episode `` No Mas '', directed by her father. She played Ophelia Mayer in Sweet / Vicious. Cranston played baseball when he was a student and remains a collector of baseball memorabilia and an avid fan of the Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Dodgers. When he accepted his third Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Cranston thanked his wife and daughter, and told them he loves them `` more than baseball ''. The family has a beach house in Ventura County, California, which Cranston designed. Cranston lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico while filming Breaking Bad. He was a co-owner of the former independent theater Cinemas Palme d'Or in Palm Desert, California. To commemorate the final episode of Breaking Bad, Cranston and castmate Aaron Paul both got Breaking Bad tattoos on the last day of filming ; Cranston 's tattoo consists of the show 's logo on one of his fingers. Filmography Main article : Bryan Cranston filmography Awards and nominations Main article : List of awards and nominations received by Bryan Cranston References ^ Jump up to : Higginbotham, Adam. `` Bryan Cranston, Breaking Badass ''. Men 's Journal. Retrieved August 2011 ^ Jump up to : `` Bryan Cranston ''. Primetime Emmy Award. Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved February 10, 2014. Jump up ^ Gordon, Seth ( August 7, 2015 ). Sneaky Pete ( Web ). Retrieved August 10, 2015. Jump up ^ `` Monitor ''. 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Hall ( 2006 ) Matthew Fox ( 2007 ) Edward James Olmos ( 2008 ) Josh Holloway ( 2009 ) Stephen Moyer ( 2010 ) Bryan Cranston ( 2011 ) Kevin Bacon / Bryan Cranston ( 2012 ) Mads Mikkelsen ( 2013 ) Hugh Dancy / Andrew Lincoln ( 2014 ) Bruce Campbell ( 2015 ) Andrew Lincoln ( 2016 ) Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture ( 2011 -- 2020 ) 2011 The Help Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, Chris Lowell, Ahna O'Reilly, Sissy Spacek, Octavia Spencer, Mary Steenburgen, Emma Stone, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel 2012 Argo Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, Kerry Bishé, Kyle Chandler, Rory Cochrane, Bryan Cranston, Christopher Denham, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Victor Garber, John Goodman, Scoot McNairy, Chris Messina 2013 American Hustle Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Louis C.K., Bradley Cooper, Jack Huston, Jennifer Lawrence, Alessandro Nivola, Michael Peña, Jeremy Renner, Elisabeth Röhm, Shea Whigham 2014 Birdman or ( The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance ) Zach Galifianakis, Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts 2015 Spotlight Billy Crudup, Brian d'Arcy James, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci 2016 Hidden Figures Mahershala Ali, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Taraji P. Henson, Aldis Hodge, Janelle Monáe, Jim Parsons, Glen Powell, Octavia Spencer Complete list ( 1995 -- 2000 ) ( 2001 -- 2010 ) ( 2011 -- 2020 ) Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series ( 2010 -- 2019 ) 2010 : Boardwalk Empire, season 1 Antonacci Buscemi Coleman Graham de la Huerta Laciura Macdonald Mol Palladino Piazza Pitt Shannon Sparks Stuhlbarg Weiner Whigham 2011 : Boardwalk Empire, season 2 Buscemi Chianese Clohessy Coleman Cox J. Gallina L. Gallina Graham Huston Laciura Lind Macdonald D. McTigue R. McTigue Mol B. Noon C. Noon O'Rourke Palladino Pennewill Piazza Pitt Shannon Sparks Stuhlbarg Van Wagner Whigham Williams Yusef 2012 : Downton Abbey, series 2 Bonneville Boyle Carmichael Carter Coyle Dockery Findlay Finneran Froggatt Glen Howes James - Collier Leech Logan McGovern McShera Nicol Nuttall Robb Smith Stevens Wilton 2013 : Breaking Bad, season 5, part II Bowen Brandt Cranston Crawford Fletcher Fraser Gunn Metzler Mitte Norris Odenkirk Paul Plemons Quezada Rankin Sane 2014 : Downton Abbey, series 4 Bonneville Carmichael Carter Coyle Dockery Doyle Froggatt James James - Collier Leech Logan McGovern McShera Milne Robb Smith Speleers Theobold Wilton 2015 : Downton Abbey, series 5 Bonneville Carmichael Carter Cassidy Coyle Dockery Doyle Froggatt James James - Collier Leech Logan McGovern McShera Nicol Ovenden Smith Wilton 2016 : Stranger Things, season 1 Brown Buono Chrest Dyer Harbour Heaton Keery Matarazzo McLaughlin Modine Morgan Reynolds Ryder Schnapp Steger Wolfhard Complete list ( 1994 -- 1999 ) ( 2000 -- 2009 ) ( 2010 -- present ) Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series Dennis Franz ( 1994 ) Anthony Edwards ( 1995 ) Dennis Franz ( 1996 ) Anthony Edwards ( 1997 ) Sam Waterston ( 1998 ) James Gandolfini ( 1999 ) Martin Sheen ( 2000 ) Martin Sheen ( 2001 ) James Gandolfini ( 2002 ) Kiefer Sutherland ( 2003 ) Jerry Orbach ( 2004 ) Kiefer Sutherland ( 2005 ) Hugh Laurie ( 2006 ) James Gandolfini ( 2007 ) Hugh Laurie ( 2008 ) Michael C. 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Question: who is the actor that plays walter white
Answer: Bryan Lee Cranston