Emmys Awards 2013; Bryan Cranston, Man of the Moment

         Bryan Lee Cranston born in March 7, 1956 is an American Actor, voice actor, screen writer, director and producer. He is best known for portraying Walter White in the AMC drama series Breaking Bad, for which he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series three consecutive times. He is also widely known for portraying Hal in the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, and has appeared in several critically acclaimed Hollywood and independent films such as Little Miss Sunshine, Drive and Argo.
                                 While rumors surfaced about the "Breaking Bad" star playing Lex Luthor in the next "Superman" movie, they created an instant Internet firestorm and seemed utterly plausible. When Stephen Colbert was looking for a "Get Lucky" dance partner on his widely seen Daft tribute show, of course he chose Cranston plucking him out of a Charlie Rose interview. There's more, He's on newsstands. In the last two months alone, Cranston's been covered with debris on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, looked dapper on the August GQ and been the subject of profile in The New Yorker.
                         He's in theaters. He's got two movies scheduled for this year, "Get a Job" and "Cold Comes the Night". Last year, he appeared in six: "Red Tails", "John Carter", "Madagascar 3", "Rock of ages", "Total Recall" and "Argo". He's known as a loyal friend and hardworking colleague and utterly unflappable. As writer Brett Martin observed in his GQ profile, the writers of "Malcolm in the Middle" frequently tried to throw Cranston off balance. But Cranston, as the show's daffy dad, Hal, approached all manner of humiliation, tighty, whities, bee attacks, nude roller skating, with the same casual steadiness he now brings to Walter White.
                       "Malcolm" was Cranston's breakthrough, but he'd been a regular visitor on TV screens for almost two decades. Indeed, he was a familiar race when his name was unknown, appearing in commercials for such brands as Lay's potato chips opposite Michael J.Fox, Jc Penney and Preparation H.  In his Tv and movie roles, he generally appeared as authority figures: cops, soldiers and the like. He played two different astronauts in Tom Hanks productions: Gus Grissom in "That Thing You Do!" and Buzz Aldrin in "From the Earth to the Moon" and later "Magnificient Desolation." Cranston could show vulnerability when necessary. That's what prompted "Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan to cast Cranston as While in the first place. Gilligan, a former "X-Files" writer, rememberes a Cranston performance in an "X-Files episode called "Drive." Cranston's character was a bigoted creep, but the actor made him sympathetic. On Sunday, Cranston is up for his eighth Emmy as an actor, he's a had three nominations for "Malcolm" and five for "Breaking Bad."