He instead opted to wear a bald cap enhanced with CGI, along with face facial fuzz for his moustache. For Walt's appearance in El Camino, Cranston couldn't shave his head nor grow a moustache for his appearance in Jesse's flashback due to acting issues. He is set to reprise the role of Walt during the final season of the spin-off series Better Call Saul, having previously reprised the role in the 2019 film El Camino, appearing in a flashback scene. Cranston was also a producer for the fourth and fifth seasons of the series, and directed three episodes of the show during its run. The producers of Breaking Bad were initially skeptical about Vince Gilligan's choice to cast Cranston as Walt, since they associated Cranston with his comedic role as Hal, but changed their minds after Gilligan showed them Cranston's scenes from The X-Files.Ĭranston'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 20 for seasons four and five (winning again in 2014 for the second half of season 5). Walter teams up with former student Jesse Pinkman (played by Aaron Paul), to manufacture and sell methamphetamine to ensure the well-being of Walter's family after he dies. Walter White, Cranston's most famous role in television.įrom 2008 to 2013, Cranston starred in the AMC series Breaking Bad, created by Vince Gilligan, in which he played Walter White, a high-school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Cranston ultimately directed several episodes of the show and received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performance. He remained with the show until its end in 2006. In 2000, Cranston landed a leading role as Hal on the comedy series Malcolm in the Middle. Gilligan said later that Cranston's performance as Crump - an unlikable person who nevertheless succeeds in gaining the audience's sympathy, but becomes less and less sympathetic as the episode goes on - was pivotal in Gilligan's decision to cast Cranston as Walter White, when Gilligan created Breaking Bad. "Drive" was written by Vince Gilligan, who at that time was an executive producer on The X-Files. ![]() In the episode, the anti-Semitic Crump forces Agent Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) to drive him west, supposedly to escape an ultrasonic signal that is slowly driving him insane and will eventually kill him. In 1998, Cranston played Patrick Crump, the lead antagonist of the episode " Drive" of The X-Files. He continued to hold small television and film roles, including a recurring spot on Seinfeld as a dentist. His first big role was a 9-episode recurring spot on the TV series Raising Miranda as Uncle Russell. He got his start in acting in the theatre, and soon began doing commercial and TV work. He was raised in Canoga Park, Los Angeles, and went to community college to study police science. Cranston reprised his role as Walt in El Camino, and in the sixth and final season of Better Call Saul.Ĭranston was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles. He wrote, directed, and produced the film Last Chance, and has directed episodes of Malcolm in the Middle and Breaking Bad. ![]() He was previously nominated three times for the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in Malcolm in the Middle.Īside from his successful career as an actor, Cranston is also a director, writer and producer. Breaking Bad also earned Cranston five Golden Globe nominations (with one win) and nine Screen Actors Guild Award nominations (with four wins). After becoming a producer of the show in 2011, he also won the award for Outstanding Drama Series twice. He is also well known for his role as Hal Wilkerson in Malcolm in the Middle.Ĭranston's performance on Breaking Bad earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times (2008, 2009, 2010, and 2014). His role as Walt in Breaking Bad won him three consecutive Emmys for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. He is best known for his portrayal of chemistry teacher and drug kingpin Walter White in Breaking Bad. But you have to be the type of person who wants the ball with seconds left in the game." ―Bryan Cranston īryan Lee Cranston is an American actor, filmmaker, and director. " In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have what is considered an actor's arrogance, which is not to say an arrogance in your personal life.
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