This artist in the cinema circles of Hollywood is called a rare hard worker. Before gaining fame, Brian Cranston played many episodic and secondary roles. He takes up all the offers: on television, in the theater, in the cinema, in the booth of animated films, even in advertising. He considers acting to be his vocation, a way to earn a living.
Difficulties do not exhaust, but temper
The birth of Brian Cranston was not a special event in the family of actress Audrey Peggy Cell and producer Joseph Louis Cranston. They already had two children. Parents of the future owner of a personalized star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame were broken people, struggling to cope with their duties. As a result of financial difficulties, they had to lay down a house, from which the family was subsequently simply evicted. Mother, in order to raise funds for food, sold the remaining things in the flea market. Little Brian was a regular in the neighboring garbage cans, where he was looking for something worthwhile that you could sell and help out some money for the family. After the father left, the children were brought up to a greater extent by grandparents.
With such a start, Brian Cranston was ready for the disappointments and adversities of adulthood, he was sure that he could survive under any circumstances.
The beginning of the creative path
The future winner of the Tony, Emmy and Golden Globes awards grew up in Los Angeles, where he graduated from high school, continuing his studies at Los Angeles Valley College. Determined to realize himself in the cinema, he actively attended acting courses and seminars. To pay for them, he moonlighted as a loader. After the attention of Brian Cranston attracted advertising. At 23, he moved to New York, starring in a variety of industrial films and commercials. He began working on television, where the most significant of the episodic roles in soap operas is the image of Douglas Donovan in the series “Endless Love”.
Cranston became a professional actor at the age of 26, and worldwide popularity came to the performer in the late 1990s, after the release of the films “Death in Space”, “What You Do”, “Hope Chicago”, “Saving Private Ryan” and cult TV series “Rescuers of Malibu”, “Seinfeld”, “Cool Walker: Justice in Texas”, “Babylon 5”, “Honey, I have reduced children.”
In the image of Walter White
Despite the significant number of projects in the filmography of Brian Cranston, his creative destiny until the success of the series “Breaking Bad” developed, let’s say, slowly. Of course, he managed to avoid being tied to one role that was repeated in different pictures, but Cranston did not succeed in shining in the main role. Until in 2008, he joined the cast of the criminal drama series Breaking Bad. Cranston's character was a cancer teacher, chemistry teacher Walter White, who is setting up the production of a new drug in order to provide for his family. The project has become incredibly popular throughout the world, especially among the male part of the audience. For performing skills, the actor was awarded three prizes: an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and the United States Screen Actors Guild. According to the performer, participation in the project became for him the most emotionally vivid experience in life.
In between filming "Breaking Bad", the actor was involved in the production of other films. Brian Cranston decorated the tapes Drive, Recall All, and Operation Argo with his presence.
Success attributes
For Brian Cranston, the series preceding the Breaking Bad project have become an excellent school of excellence that allowed them to hone their reincarnation skills. After the show closed, the actor continued to act actively. The most striking of the latest acting work of Cranston are considered roles in the films "Trumbo", "Until the very end", "Infiltrator", "Scam undercover."
Today, Brian can only choose roles that interest him. He appreciates financial freedom, considers it one of the attributes of success.
The actor was married twice, the first wife was Mickey Middleton, with whom five years later Brian filed for divorce. The second time he led the crown of actress Robin Dearden, who soon gave birth to him a beautiful baby Taylor. Now their daughter is already an adult independent creative person who decided to follow in her parents' footsteps and devote her life to cinema. Photos of Brian Cranston and his family often appear on his officially verified accounts on Instagram and Twitter. Despite his venerable age, the actor is an active user of social networks.