Bryan Lee Cranston (born March 7, 1956) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, comedian and voice actor. 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, he 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 2015 film Trumbo, 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 and one episode of The Office (USA). 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.
Cranston was born in Hollywood, California, the son of Audrey Peggy (née Sell; 1923–2004), a radio actress, and Joseph Louis “Joe” Cranston (1924–2014), an actor and former amateur boxer.
He is the second of their three children. He was raised partly by his grandparents, living on their poultry farm in the Canoga Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. His father was of German, Austrian-Jewish, and Irish descent, while his maternal grandparents were German immigrants.
He has stated that his parents were “broken people” and that they were “incapacitated as far as parenting”, causing the family to lose their house in a foreclosure.
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 later 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”.
During his preteen years, Cranston encountered a young Charles Manson while riding a horse at the Spahn Ranch.
This happened about a year before the Tate-LaBianca murders. He graduated from Canoga Park High School, where he was a member of the school’s chemistry club. He earned an associate degree in police science from Los Angeles Valley College in 1976.
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 show 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.
Bryan Cranston has worked as an actor, voice actor, director, and writer and earned his wealth from all these sources. His estimated net worth stands at an impressive $30 million. He makes about $125 Thousand for each episode. (net worth estimated in 2017).
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