Alan Cox

• Name — Alan Cox • Birth Name — Alan Douglas Cox • Born — 6 August 1970 • Birthplace — Westminster, London, England • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1976–present • Parents — * Brian Cox (father) • Caroline Burt (mother)

Cox was born in Westminster, London, and is the son of Scottish Emmy Award-winning actor Brian Cox and his second wife, actress Caroline Burt. Cox was educated at St Paul's School in London. He has a sister, Margaret, and two half-brothers, Orson and Torin. Cox portrayed the young John Mortimer the 1982 TV adaptation of his play A Voyage Round My Father, starring opposite Laurence Olivier. He is probably most widely known for his role in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), where he played a teenage version of Dr. Watson. Other films include An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), Mrs. Dalloway (1997), and The Auteur Theory (1999). In 2011, Cox also co-starred as a nudist named Cory Beck in the independent comedy Act Naturally.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1978 — The Devil's Crown — Young Henry — Episode: "The Earth Is Not Enough" • 1979 — Penmarric — Young Jan-Yves — Episode: "Series 1, Episode 7" • 1980 — Shoestring — John — Episode: "The Dangerous Game" • 1983 — Jane Eyre — John Reed — Episode: "Gateshead" • 1990 — Casualty — Joshua — Episode: "Results" • 1991 — The Bill — Steve Doyle — Episode: "Stress Rules" • 1992 — Screen One — Seth Bade — Episode: "Adam Bede" • Spatz — Graham — Episode: "Poetry & Music" • London's Burning — Richard Sidwell — Episode: "Series 5, Episode 3" • The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles — Dimitri — Episode: "Petrograd, July 1917" • 1994 — The Bill — Connor — Episode: "Creating a Market" • 1995 — Crown Prosecutor — David Ellery — Episode: "Series 1, Episode 8" • 1996 — Ellington — Tadeusz Zbinkiewicz — Episode: "No Holds Barred" • The Thin Blue Line — Bob Tough — Episode: "Fly on the Wall" • 1997 — The Odyssey — Elpenor — Mini-series • 2004 — Midsomer Murders — Stephen Bannerman — Episode: "The Maid in Splendour" • 2007 — The Wild West — Mark Kellogg — Episode: "Custer's Last Strand" • 2008 — M.I. High — David DeHaverland — Episode: "It's a Kind of Magic" • John Adams — William Maclay — Episode: "Unite or Die" • 2009 — The Bill — Phil Reaney — Episode: "Fall Out" • 2013 — Lucan — Ian Maxwell-Scott — Mini-series • 2014 — The Good Wife — Douglas — Episode: "Goliath and David" • 2015 — The Sonnet Project — Episode: "Sonnet #30" • 2021 — New Amsterdam — Lyle — Episode: "More Joy"

• Year — Title — Role — Theatre • 2025 — Churchill in Moscow — Archie Clark Kerr — Orange Tree Theatre