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Bryan Lee Cranston (born March 7, 1956) is an American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, director and producer. Cranston is best known for portraying Walter White in the AMC crime drama series ''Breaking Bad'', Hal in the Fox comedy series ''Malcolm in the Middle'' and Dr. Tim Whatley in the NBC comedy series ''Seinfeld''. For ''Breaking Bad'', he 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 2011, he also won the award for Outstanding Drama Series twice. Cranston was also nominated three times for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in ''Malcolm in the Middle''. 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. He will reprise his role in the upcoming HBO television film of the same name. Cranston has directed episodes of various television series, including seven episodes of ''Malcolm in the Middle'', three episodes of ''Breaking Bad'', two episodes of ''Modern Family'' and one episode of ''The Office''. He also appeared in several acclaimed films, such as ''Saving Private Ryan'' (1998), ''Little Miss Sunshine'' (2006), ''Drive'' (2011), ''Argo'' (2012), ''Godzilla'' (2014), and ''Trumbo'' (2015). In 2015, Cranston, together with David Shore, executive produced and wrote the story for the Amazon.com original crime drama ''Sneaky Pete'', which premiered on August 7. ==Early life== Cranston was born and raised in the Canoga Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California,〔 the son of Audrey Peggy Sell, a radio actress, and Joseph Louis "Joe" Cranston, an actor and former amateur boxer. He is the second of their three children. He is of Austrian, German, and Irish ancestry on his father's side, while his maternal grandparents were immigrants from Germany.〔 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K869-YB7 )〕 He has stated that his parents were "broken people" and that they were "incapacitated as far as parenting", causing the family to lose their house in a foreclosure. Cranston's father held many jobs before deciding to become an actor, but did not secure enough roles to provide for his family.〔 He eventually walked out on the family when Cranston was 11 years old, and they did not see each other again until 11 years later when Cranston and his brother decided to track their father down.〔 Cranston was 22 at the time, and he and his father maintained a relationship until his father's death in 2014.〔http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2015/06/10/bryan-cranston-panda-father-li-kung-fu-panda/28748811/〕 Cranston has claimed that he based his portrayal of Walter White on his own father, who had a slumped posture "like the weight of the world was on his shoulders".〔 Cranston was raised partly by his grandparents,〔 living on their farm and working with poultry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tough Love - Bryan Cranston The Mortified Sessions )〕 While a preteen, Cranston and a cousin encountered Charles Manson as they were riding rented horses at the Spahn Ranch. 〔 (Nerdist Podcast: "Bryan Cranston Returns" ) 10 August, 2015 〕 This was about a year before the Tate-LaBianca murders.〔 (breakingbadfunfacts: "Cranston and Manson? FUN FREAKY “FAMILY” FACT: 80" ), 29 September, 2014 〕 He graduated from Canoga Park High School, where he was a member of the school's chemistry club. He earned an associate degree in police science from Los Angeles Valley College in 1976. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bryan Cranston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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