Bryan Cranston: 
Is an American actor, voice actor, producer, director, and screenwriter. 

Born: March 7, 1956 (age 61)
Hollywood, California, U.S.  

He is best known for portraying Walter White on the AMC crime drama series Bre2011, he also won the award for Outstanding Drama Series twice. aking Bad, Hal on the Fox comedy series Malcolm in the Middle, and Dr. Tim Whatley on the NBC comedy series Seinfeld. For Breaking Bad, Cranston 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 

Early life: 

Cranston spent much of his early childhood watching his father, Joe, live a disappointed life for failing to achieve the big-screen stardom he longed for.

Eventually his father left show business, but his still-inconsistent earnings put too heavy a strain on the family and his marriage. At the age of 12, Bryan Cranston weathered his parents.  

At the age of 16, Cranston joined the Los Angeles Police Department's Law Enforcement Explorer Program. He rose to the top of his class, setting his sights on earning a political science degree and embarking on a career as a cop. But when a guidance counselor said he needed to add an elective to his course work, Cranston opted for acting and quickly found he had a gift for stage work. By the time he graduated from high school, in 1976. 

Early acting Career: 

Cranston began his acting career in local and regional theaters, getting his start at the Granada Theater in the San Fernando Valley. He had previously performed as a youth, but his show business parents had mixed feelings about their son being involved in the profession, so he did not continue until years later. Cranston was ordained as a minister by the Universal Life Church, and performed weddings for $150 a service to help with his income. He started working regularly in the late 1980s, mostly doing minor roles and advertisements."citation needed" He was an original cast member of the ABC soap opera Loving, where he played Douglas Donovan from 1983 to 1985. He starred in the short-lived series Raising Miranda in 1988. Cranston's voice acting includes English dubbing of Japanese anime (under the pseudonym Lee Stone), including Macross Plus and Armitage III: Poly-Matrix, and most notably, the children's series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. 

"Malcoln in the Middle": 
By the late 1990s, Cranston had assembled a respectable, low-key career. His credits from this period include recurring parts on Seinfeld and King of Queens. Additionally, he played Buzz Aldrin in the Tom Hanks television miniseries From the Earth to the Moon (1998), and portrayed an American colonel in Saving Private Ryan (1998).


His profile received a big boost in 2000 when he signed on to play Hal, opposite Jane Kaczmarek's Lois, as the father of five boys, on the hit FOX sitcom Malcolm in the Middle. The role garnered three supporting actor Emmy Award nominations for Cranston. 

"Breaking Bad": 
after the end of Malcolm in the Middle in 2006 that Cranston got his first look at the Breaking Bad script. The show's creator, Vince Gilligan, had first met Cranston in 1998.  As he began putting together the pieces for his new show, Gilligan kept coming back to Cranston as the central character, Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with lung cancer who starts cooking meth in order to leave his family with enough money after his death. Cranston has said that upon reading the show's initial script, he was determined to play White, because he felt it would change the life of whomever landed the role. For Cranston, it certainly did. Critics hailed the show, which debuted in 2008, as one of the best on TV, and it landed the thespian three straight Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Then, he won the award in three consecutive years and also he received an emmy in 2014 for his role in Breaking bad.  

Recent Work: 

In 2011, Cranston had supporting roles in three successful films, the drama The Lincoln Lawyer, as well as the thrillers Drive and Contagion. He voiced James Gordon in the animated film Batman: Year One (2011). In 2012, he had supporting roles in John Carter, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted as Vitaly the tiger, and Rock of Ages, and a major role in the hostage drama Argo. He also lent his voice to several episodes of the animated series Robot Chicken. In 2012, he starred in the remake of the 1990 film Total Recall, as Chancellor Vilos Cohaagen, the corrupted president of a fictional war-ravaged United Federation of Britain. In the same year, he made a guest appearance as Kenneth Parcell's step-father, Ron, on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, and was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 

From September 2013 to June 2014, Cranston played U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson in the American Repertory Theater and Broadway productions of All the Way, in a performance that has received widespread acclaim, and he later won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for the role. He also played scientist Joe Brody in the 2014 reboot of Godzilla. Month later, it was announced that Cranston would star in an HBO adaptation of his hit play All the Way. Steven Spielberg was set to be an executive producer on the film. Following the film's premiere on May 21, 2016. Cranston's performance was widely praised by critics, garnering eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations and a Television Critics Choice Award nomination. In 2015, Cranston starred as screenwriter Dalton Trumbo in the biopic Trumbo, for which he received his first Academy award nomination. At the same year, he made the voice of Li, the biological father of Po, in Kung Fu Panda 3. Also that year, he appeared in many films, including The Infiltrator and Wakefield. Cranston's memoir, A Life in Parts, was published on October 11, 2016, became a New York Times bestseller, and received positive reviews. 

On January 27, 2017,  it was announced that Cranston would star in a stage adaptation of the 1976 film Network playing Howard Beale, directed by Ivo van Hove at the Royal National Theatre in London. 

Personal Life: 

Cranston lives in Southern California with his second wife, Robin Dearden. The couple has a daughter, Taylor Dearden.