Multi award-winning actor Brian Cox will embark on his first ever one-man show It’s All About Me! this autumn. Brian will take to the road for the 18-date tour on 1 October at Northampton’s Royal & Derngate Theatre and visit venues all over the UK and Ireland, culminating in London’s West End at the Adelphi Theatre on 4 November. Tickets are on sale on 25 June at 10:00am from BrianCoxOnTour.com.
Brian will take audiences on a journey through his life and incredible career – from the backstreets of Dundee to the glittering lights of Hollywood – a journey that is full of laughter and pathos. Expect candour, searing honesty, and hilarious stories. In act II, Brian will be joined on stage by producer Clive Tulloh, who will put questions from the audience to him.
Brian Cox said: “I am looking forward to this tour as it marks something a little different for me – sharing the stage with myself. As the title indicates, the show will focus more than ever on my life and career. In the second half, the tables are turned and the audience will have the chance to put their questions to me. It should be a lot of fun.“
Brian Cox – All About Me! will play Northampton, Bristol, Ipswich, Edinburgh, Dublin, Belfast, Dundee, Brighton, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Southend, Bournemouth, Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester, York, and London.
One of the greatest actors of his generation and winner of numerous prestigious awards for both stage and screen, Brian is now a household name due to his embodiment of the infamous character Logan Roy from the international hit TV show Succession, for which he won a Golden Globe. Over Brian’s 65 years in the acting business, he has also been the recipient of a Primetime Emmy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and two Olivier Awards.
TICKETS ON SALE WEDNESDAY 25 JUNE AT 10:00AM FROM BRIANCOXONTOUR.COM
Biography
Brian Cox is an Emmy, Olivier and Golden Globe award winning actor, best known for the HBO hit series Succession, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series. Cox is also the recipient of a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his portrayal of Hermann Goering in Nuremberg (2000), and has appeared in numerous films including, The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Boxer, Rushmore, Super Troopers, The Ring, 25th Hour, Troy, Red Eye, Zodiac, The Escapist, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Coriolanus, Manhunter, Churchill, and The Bourne Trilogy to name a few. His most recent films include: Little Wing, The Parenting, and The Electric State.
Cox is also a veteran of the London stage, having won two Olivier Awards for Best Actor for his performance in Titus Andronicus for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Rat in the Skull for the Royal Court. He starred in The Score at the Theatre Royal, Bath which transferred to the Theatre Royal Haymarket, and Long Day’s Journey Into Night at Wyndham’s Theatre opposite Patricia Clarke.
His New York theatre credits include St. Nicholas, which earned him the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Actor as well as Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations.
Cox has written three books: Salem to Moscow: An Actor’s Odyssey, The Lear Diaries, and his autobiography Putting the Rabbit in the Hat. In 2004, he was honoured at the BAFTA Scotland Awards with an Outstanding Achievement Award. Empire Magazine awarded him the Empire Icon Award for his film achievements in 2006, and the UK Film Council named him one of the Top 10 powerful British film stars in Hollywood in 2007. In 2003 Brian was made a CBE, a Commander of the British Empire.
