Logan Roy

Logan Roy is the aging founder and CEO of Waystar Royco, a global media empire he built from nothing. As health scares raise questions about succession, he keeps his four children circling for approval and power, testing their loyalty with casual cruelty while refusing, in every practical way, to actually let go.

Cox plays him as a man whose menace needs no volume — a flat stare or a muttered insult lands harder than any shouting match. The writing gives him real wit and stray flashes of tenderness, so he's never a cartoon tyrant; you understand exactly why his children keep crawling back for his love.