Bryan Cranston is an American actor, voice actor, producer, director, and screenwriter. He is famous for his role as Dr. Tim Whatley in Seinfeld, Hal in Malcolm in the Middle and Walter White in Breaking Bad for which he won four Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama series and one Golden Globe, four Screen Actors Guild Award and four Satellite Award. For his role as Dalton Trumbo in Trumbo, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He also won Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Motion Picture and Hollywood Film Award in Hollywood Ensemble Award for his role in Argo.
Bryan Lee Cranston was born on 7th March 1956 in Hollywood, California, United States. He belongs to white ethnicity and his birth sign is Pisces.
Talking about his family, he is the second child of Annalisa and Joseph Louis Cranston. His father is an actor and former amateur boxer and his mother is a radio actress. He grew up with his older brother Kyle and younger sister Amy in Canoga Park, California.
His father leave his family when Bryan was 11 years old. His mother raised him and his siblings.
Bryan graduated from Canoga Park High School. While he was studying there he was also a member of the school's chemistry club. He got his associate's degree in police science from Los Angeles Valley College.
As of 2019, Bryan is married and has a wife and a kid. He was married to actress Robin Dearden. The couple dated for some times and got married on 8th July 1989.
The couple welcomed their first child Taylor Dearden on 12th February 1993 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Bryan and his spouse are living a happy life with their one child at their resident.
Previously he was married to Michaelle Louise on 10 November 1977. The couple had live together for 5 years and got divorced on 8th April 1982.
American actor used to play baseball while he was in college and collector of baseball. At the Primetime Emmy Award show he thanked his wife and daughter saying he loves them more than baseball.
As of August 2019, Bryan Cranston has an estimated net worth of around $30 million (as per Celebrity Net Worth). Celebrity like Lilimar Hernandez, Lamar Odom, and Tom Hardy has earned similar net worth as Bryan.
He had earned his salary from his work as an actor in Hollywood films and television series. He has earned $225,000 per episode for his role in Breaking Bad in which he appeared in 62 episodes.
For his appearance on Broadway drama, he took $90,000 a week or $1 million by the end of the Broadway show. He was enlisted on Forbes 2014 Celebrity 100 Earnings with $7 million.
He also earned pretty well from his films and here are his movies with budget and box office collection.
Movie | Released Date | Budget | Box-Office Collection |
Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | $70 million | $482.3 million |
The Lincoln Lawyer | 2011 | $40 million | $87.1 million |
Drive | 2011 | $15 million | $81.4 million |
Madagascar 3 | 2012 | $145 million | $746.9 million |
Argo | 2012 | $44.5 million | $232.3 million |
Godzilla | 2014 | $160 million | $529.1 million |
Kung Fu Panda 3 | 2016 | $145 million | $521.2 million |
The Upside | 2017 | $37.5 million | $122.8 million |
He also has a beach house of 2450 square feet with three bedrooms 3 bathrooms and a multipurpose loft at Ventura Country, California. His house is ranked among the most remarkable green homes ever built in California. For making his dream house he must spend millions of dollars.
He started his career with a television series One Life to Live in 1968 and later appeared in 1980 To Race the wind in which he was uncredited for his role. The same year he appeared in the television movie Galaxy Express 999: Can You Love Like a Mother?.
Later he appeared in various television series and television films. His major role as Hal in Malcolm in the Middle from 2000 to 2006 and as Walter White in Breaking Bad from 2008 to 2013. He shared the screen with actors like Robin Dearden, Lauren Parsekian, Mark Harelik and many more.
For his role as Walter White, he was nominated in various awards and won one Golden Globes, 5 Primetime Emmy Awards and many more.
He also appeared in various movies like Saving Private Ryan, The Lincoln Lawyer, Drive, Agro, Total Recall, Godzilla, The Upside and many more. He was also nominated in an academy award for his role in the 2015 movie Trumbo.
He shared a screen with actors like Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Tom Hanks, Kevin Hart and many more in his film career. He debuted as a director from the movie Last Chance and also worked as producer and writer for the film.
Furthermore, he produced many television series like Breaking Bad, The Dangerous Book for Boys and many more. Not only produced but also worked as director in series like Macolm in the Middle for 7 episodes, Breaking Bad 2 episodes and others.
He also gave voice in animation films like Kung Fu Panda 3, Isle of Dogs, Madagascar 3 and DC's comics animation film adaptation Batman: Year One.
Not only in films but he also gave voice for famous television series Family Guy created by Seth MacFarlane.
Bryan Cranston is an American actor, voice actor, producer, director, and screenwriter.
American actor stands 5 feet 11 inches or 179 cm.
He has a tattoo inked in index finger for a memory of Breaking Bad.
He has an estimated net worth of around $30 million.