A watercolour and drawing of Bryan Lee Cranston (born March 7, 1956) is an American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. Cranston is best known for portraying Hal in the Fox comedy series Malcolm in the Middle from 2000 to 2006 and Walter White in the AMC crime drama Breaking Bad from 2008 to 2013. For Breaking Bad, he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series three consecutive times - for the second time in television history after Bill Cosby in I Spy during the 1960s. After becoming one of the producers on the Breaking Bad panel in 2011, Cranston also won the award for Outstanding Drama Series