Kenneth Branagh


    Starbirth:
    December 10, 1960
Birthplace:
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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Overview

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London; in 2015 he succeeded Richard Attenborough as its president. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. He has won three BAFTAs and two Emmy Awards. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2012 Birthday Honours and knighted on 9 November 2012. He was made a Freeman of his native city of Belfast in January 2018. In 2020, he was listed at number 20 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Branagh has both directed and starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including Henry V (1989), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Othello (1995), Hamlet (1996), Love's Labour's Lost (2000), and As You Like It (2006). He was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director for Henry V and for Best Adapted Screenplay for Hamlet. He has also starred in the television series Fortunes of War (1987), Shackleton (2002), and Wallander (2008–2016) and in the films Celebrity (1998), Wild Wild West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), as SS leader Reinhard Heydrich in Conspiracy (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Warm Springs (2005), as Major General Henning von Tresckow in Valkyrie (2008), The Boat That Rocked (2009), and as Sir Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn (2011), Dunkirk (2017), and Tenet (2020). He won an International Emmy Award for Wallander and a Primetime Emmy Award for Conspiracy, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for My Week with Marilyn. Branagh directed and starred in the romantic thriller Dead Again (1991), the horror film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), and the action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014). He directed and starred as Hercule Poirot in the mystery drama adaptations of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Death on the Nile (2022). He also directed such films as Swan Song (1992), which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film, The Magic Flute (2006), Sleuth (2007), the Marvel superhero film Thor (2011), and the live-action adaptation of Disney's Cinderella (2015), He narrated numerous documentary series, including Cold War (1998), Walking with Dinosaurs (1999), The Ballad of Big Al (2001), Walking with Beasts (2001), Walking with Monsters (2005), and World War 1 in Colour (2005).


MOVIECHARACTERYEAR
A Haunting in Venice Hercule Poirot 2023
Oppenheimer Niels Bohr 2023
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba Self 2022
Denzel Washington - Un modèle américain Self 2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder Self - Director (archive footage) 2022
Death on the Nile Hercule Poirot 2022
Fireheart Shawn Nolan (voice) 2022
Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of 'Tenet' Self 2020
Tenet Andrei Sator 2020
Lost Lives 2019
All Is True William Shakespeare 2018
Avengers: Infinity War Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited) 2018
Murder on the Orient Express Hercule Poirot 2017
Dunkirk Commander Bolton 2017
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer Archie Rice 2016
Mindhorn Himself 2016
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale Leontes 2015
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe Self 2014
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Viktor Cherevin 2014
National Theatre Live: Macbeth Macbeth, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, general in the King's army 2013
Stars In Shorts Mark Snow 2012
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder Isambard Kingdom Brunel 2012
My Week with Marilyn Sir Laurence Olivier 2011
Discovering Hamlet Hamlet (archive footage) 2011
Thor: From Asgard to Earth Himself 2011
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope Self 2011
Prodigal Mark Snow 2011
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story Self 2010
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics Self 2009
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers Self 2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year Narrator (voice) 2009
The Boat That Rocked Dormandy 2009
Valkyrie Henning von Tresckow 2008
Alien Love Triangle Steven Chesterman 2008
Sleuth Other Man on T.V. 2007
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out Self 2007
James Ellis: An Actor's Life Himself 2007
As You Like It self 2006
Walking with Monsters Narrator (voice) 2005
Warm Springs Franklin Delano Roosevelt 2005
Five Children and It Uncle Albert 2004
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter Self 2004
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic Narrator 2004
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence Himself / Narrator 2003
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Gilderoy Lockhart 2002
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog Peter McGowan 2002
The Tramp and the Dictator Narrator (voice) 2002
Rabbit-Proof Fence A. O. Neville 2002
The Beasts Within Narrator (voice) 2001
Triumph of the Beasts Narrator (voice) 2001
Conspiracy Heydrich 2001
Schneider's 2nd Stage Joseph Barnett 2001
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces Self / Narrator 2000
The Road to El Dorado Miguel (voice) 2000
Love's Labour's Lost Berowne 2000
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs Narrator 2000
Wild Wild West: Evil Devices Himself 1999
Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies Himself 1999
The Periwig-Maker Periwig-maker (voice) 1999
IMAX: Galapagos 3D Narrator 1999
Wild Wild West Dr. Arliss Loveless 1999
It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West' Self 1999
The Theory of Flight Richard 1999
The Dance of Shiva Colonel Evans 1998
Universal Horror Narrator 1998
Celebrity Lee Simon 1998
The Proposition Father Michael McKinnon 1998
The Gingerbread Man Rick Magruder 1998
Hamlet Prince Hamlet 1996
Looking for Richard Self / Interview 1996
Othello Iago 1995
Shadow of a Gunman Donal Davoren 1995
Anne Frank Remembered Narration (voice) 1995
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein 1994
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein Self 1994
Much Ado About Nothing Benedick 1993
Swing Kids Herr Knopp, Gestapo 1993
Peter's Friends Andrew Benson 1992
Dead Again Roman Strauss / Mike Church 1991
Discovering Hamlet Himself / Hamlet 1990
Look Back in Anger Jimmy Porter 1989
Henry V Henry V 1989
Strange Interlude Gordon Evans 1988
A Month in the Country James Soon 1987
High Season Rick 1987
Ghosts Oswald 1987
Lorna Billy Martin 1987
The Lady's Not For Burning Thomas Mendip 1987
Coming Through D.H. Lawrence 1985
A Coming to Terms for Billy Billy Martin 1984
A Matter of Choice for Billy Billy Martin 1983
To the Lighthouse Charles Tansley 1983
Easter 2016 Student 1982
Too Late to Talk to Billy Billy Martin 1982
Chariots of Fire Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited) 1981
Mayday
SHOWCHARACTERYEAR
Walking with Beasts Narrator <mt>
The View Self <mt>
Late Night with Conan O'Brien Self - Guest <mt>
Wallander Kurt Wallander <mt>
Shackleton Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton <mt>
The Oscars Self <mt>
Thompson Self <mt>
The Ellen DeGeneres Show Self <mt>
Cold War <blank> <mt>
Play for Today <blank> <mt>
Fortunes of War Guy Pringle <mt>
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood <blank> <mt>
El hormiguero Self <mt>
The Graham Norton Show Self <mt>
American Experience Narrator (voice) <mt>
Wogan Self <mt>
Walking with Dinosaurs Narrator (voice) <mt>
World War 1 in Colour Narrator <mt>
Upstart Crow Colin/The Stranger <mt>
10 Days to War Colonel Tim Collins <mt>
Walking with Monsters Narrator (voice) <mt>
Big Al Narrator <mt>
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson Self <mt>
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Self <mt>
This England Boris Johnson <mt>
Real Time with Bill Maher Self <mt>
The Graham Norton Show Self - Guest <mt>
BLUE EYE SAMURAI Abijah Fowler (voice) <mt>
Performance Donal Davoren <mt>
The Boy in the Bush Jack Grant <mt>
Tony Awards Self <mt>
Late Night with Seth Meyers Self <mt>
Wallander <blank> <mt>
Leute heute Self <mt>
The Kelly Clarkson Show <blank> <mt>
Honest Trailers Hercules Poirot (archive footage) <mt>
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