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Bryan Cranston

Short biography
• Bryan Lee Cranston is an
American actor.He was born in
march 1956 in Los Angeles ,
California , U.S. Cranston was
raised in Canoga Park, Los
Angeles
• His dad eventually walked out on
the family when Cranston was 11
years old, and they did not see
each other again until a 22-year-
old Cranston and his brother Kyle
decided to track him down.
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.
• Cranston started working
regularly in the late 1980s,
mostly doing minor roles and
advertisements.
Career breakthrough
• In 1994, Cranston got the recurring role of
Dr. Tim Whatley, Jerry's dentist, on Seinfeld.
He played the role until 1997.
• In 1996, he played the first of his two
biographical roles as an astronaut when he
portrayed Gus Grissom in the film That Thing
You Do!
• In 1997, he played a supporting role in
the Michael Dudikoff action film Strategic
Command, alongside Richard Norton, Paul
Winfield, and Stephen Quadros
•  Later that year he had a small role
in Babylon 5 as Ericsson, a starship captain
Funeral(2000)
who sacrifices himself as part of a plan to
save the galaxy.
Breaking bad
• From 2008 to 2013, Cranston starred in
the series Breaking Bad, created by Vince
Gilligan, in which he played the
show’s protagonist ,Walter White, a high-
school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed
with terminal lung cancer . He is best known
for this role
• 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
Awards and nominations received
by Bryan Cranston
• Bryan Cranston won three consecutive Emmy
Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama
Series for his portrayal of Walter White on
AMC's Breaking Bad. 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 five
Saturn Award nominations with two 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

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