Actor Brian Cox Teaches Adorable Toddler How to Deliver A Shakespearean Soliloquy Mike Byhoff · 12/10/09 01:01PM Brian Cox can pull off menacing and acerbic like few others (the Bourne movies, Manhunter). He legitimizes terrible movies (Chain Reaction, The Long Kiss Goodnight). But his best role to date is teaching Shakespeare to adorable children.