Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (/ˈbrænə/ BRAN-ə; born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Born in Belfast and raised primarily in Reading, Berkshire, Branagh trained at RADA in London and served as its president from 2015 to 2024. His accolades include an Academy Award, four BAFTAs, two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Olivier Award. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in 2012 and was given Freedom of the City in his native Belfast in 2018. In 2020, he was ranked in 20th place on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Branagh has 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), and As You Like It (2006). He was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director for Henry V and Best Adapted Screenplay for Hamlet. He directed Swan Song (1992), which earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. He also directed Peter's Friends (1992), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Thor (2011), and Cinderella (2015). For his semi-autobiographical film Belfast (2021), he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Director and won Best Original Screenplay. Branagh directed and starred as Hercule Poirot in the Hercule Poirot film series (2017–present). He has also acted in Celebrity (1998), Wild Wild West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), and Valkyrie (2008). His portrayal of Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn (2011) earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He played supporting roles in Christopher Nolan's films Dunkirk (2017), Tenet (2020), and Oppenheimer (2023). Branagh has starred in the BBC1 series Fortunes of War (1987), the Channel 4 series Shackleton (2002), the television film Warm Springs (2005), and the BBC One series Wallander (2008–2016). He received a Primetime Emmy Award and an International Emmy Award for Best Actor for portraying SS leader Reinhard Heydrich in the HBO film Conspiracy (2001). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Branagh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, 1960-12-10

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1981	Chariots of Fire	Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)	68
2	1982	Easter 2016	Student	0
3	1987	Ghosts	Oswald Alving	0
4	1987	High Season	Rick	53
5	1987	A Month in the Country	James Soon	64
6	1988	Strange Interlude	Gordon Evans	50
7	1989	Henry V	Henry V	71
8	1989	Look Back in Anger	Jimmy Porter	90
9	1990	Discovering Hamlet	Himself / Hamlet	57
10	1991	Dead Again	Roman Strauss / Mike Church	64
11	1992	Peter's Friends	Andrew Benson	65
12	1993	Much Ado About Nothing	Benedick	69
13	1994	It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein	Self	85
14	1994	Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	Victor Frankenstein	64
15	1995	Shadow of a Gunman	Donal Davoren	0
16	1995	Othello	Iago	64
17	1996	Looking for Richard	Self - Interviewee	68
18	1996	Hamlet	Prince Hamlet	73
19	1998	The Gingerbread Man	Rick Magruder	56
20	1998	Celebrity	Lee Simon	60
21	1998	Universal Horror	Narrator	71
22	1999	The Theory of Flight	Richard	62
23	1999	Wild Wild West	Dr. Arliss Loveless	53
24	1999	IMAX: Galapagos 3D	Narrator	64
25	1999	The Periwig-Maker	Periwig-maker (voice)	75
26	2000	The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs	Narrator	65
27	2000	The Road to El Dorado	Miguel (voice)	72
28	2000	Love's Labour's Lost	Berowne	56
29	2001	Conspiracy	Reinhard Heydrich	73
30	2002	Rabbit-Proof Fence	A. O. Neville	70
31	2002	How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog	Peter McGowan	59
32	2002	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	Gilderoy Lockhart	77
33	2003	Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence	Himself / Narrator	80
34	2004	The Magic Touch of Harry Potter	Self	76
35	2004	Five Children and It	Uncle Albert	55
36	2005	Warm Springs	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	68
37	2005	Walking with Monsters	Narrator (voice)	72
38	2007	Sleuth	Other Man on T.V.	63
39	2008	Valkyrie	Henning von Tresckow	69
40	2009	The Boat That Rocked	Dormandy	72
41	2009	1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year	Narrator (voice)	75
42	2010	With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story	Self	68
43	2011	Discovering Hamlet	Hamlet (archive footage)	70
44	2011	My Week with Marilyn	Sir Laurence Olivier	67
45		Mayday		0
46	1982	Too Late to Talk to Billy	Billy Martin	0
47	1983	To the Lighthouse	Charles Tansley	54
48	1983	A Matter of Choice for Billy	Billy Martin	40
49	1984	A Coming to Terms for Billy	Billy Martin	0
50	1985	Coming Through	D.H. Lawrence	48
51	1987	The Lady's Not For Burning	Thomas Mendip	0
52	1987	Lorna	Billy Martin	0
53	1988	Thames Wallah	Narrator	0
54	1993	Swing Kids	Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)	67
55	1995	Anne Frank Remembered	Narration (voice)	77
56	1998	The Proposition	Father Michael McKinnon	62
57	1998	The Dance of Shiva	Colonel Evans	0
58	1999	It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'	Self	49
59	1999	Wild Wild West: Evil Devices	Himself	40
60	1999	Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies	Himself	60
61	2000	Altman on His Own Terms	Self	0
62	2000	The Book That Wrote Itself	Kenneth Branagh	40
63	2000	Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces	Self / Narrator	65
64	2001	Schneider's 2nd Stage	Joseph Barnett	0
65	2001	Triumph of the Beasts	Narrator (voice)	0
66	2001	The Beasts Within	Narrator (voice)	0
67	2002	The Tramp and the Dictator	Narrator (voice)	69
68	2004	Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic	Narrator (voice)	60
69	2006	As You Like It	Self (voice)	57
70	2007	James Ellis: An Actor's Life	Himself	0
71	2007	Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out	Self	0
72	2008	Alien Love Triangle	Steven Chesterman	55
73	2009	A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers	Self	67
74	2009	A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics	Self	80
75	2011	Prodigal	Mark Snow	56
76	2011	Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope	Self	69
77	2011	Thor: From Asgard to Earth	Self	70
78	2012	London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder	Isambard Kingdom Brunel	77
79	2012	Stars In Shorts	Mark Snow	20
80	2013	National Theatre Live: Macbeth	Macbeth, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, general in the King's army	70
81	2014	Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit	Viktor Cherevin	61
82	2014	Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe	Self	69
83	2015	Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale	Leontes	77
84	2016	Mindhorn	Himself	61
85	2016	Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer	Archie Rice	35
86	2017	Dunkirk	Commander Bolton	75
87	2017	Murder on the Orient Express	Hercule Poirot	67
88	2018	Avengers: Infinity War	Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)	82
89	2018	All Is True	William Shakespeare	60
90	2019	Lost Lives		60
91	2020	Tenet	Sator	72
92	2020	Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’	Self	0
93	2022	Fireheart	Shawn Nolan (voice)	72
94	2022	Death on the Nile	Hercule Poirot	64
95	2022	Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder	Self - Director (archive footage)	70
96	2022	Denzel Washington: A Model American	Self	78
97	2022	Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba	Self	76
98	2023	Oppenheimer	Niels Bohr	81
99	2023	A Haunting in Venice	Hercule Poirot	66
100	2025	The King of Kings	Charles Dickens (voice)	86
101		Atonement		0
102	2026	The Devil Wears Prada 2		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
2	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
3	1956	Tony Awards	Self	51
4	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
5	1970	Play for Today		63
6	1982	Wogan	Self	45
7	1984	The Boy in the Bush	Jack Grant	0
8	1985	Theatre Night	Oswald Alving	0
9	1987	Fortunes of War	Guy Pringle	64
10	1988	American Experience	Narrator (voice)	74
11	1988	Thompson	Self	10
12	1991	Performance	Donal Davoren	60
13	1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest	72
14	1995	Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood		80
15	1997	Leute heute	Self	48
16	1997	The View	Self	45
17	1998	Parkinson	Self	0
18	1998	Cold War		67
19	1999	Walking with Dinosaurs	Narrator (voice)	82
20	2000	Big Al	Narrator	77
21	2001	Walking with Beasts	Narrator	77
22	2002	Shackleton	Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton	71
23	2003	Real Time with Bill Maher	Self	60
24	2003	World War 1 in Colour	Narrator	63
25	2003	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Self	57
26	2005	The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson	Self	68
27	2005	Walking with Monsters	Narrator (voice)	85
28	2006	El hormiguero	Self	48
29	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
30	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self - Guest	72
31	2008	10 Days to War	Colonel Tim Collins	64
32	2008	Wallander	Kurt Wallander	73
33	2012	Honest Trailers	Hercules Poirot (archive footage)	65
34	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	53
35	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	64
36	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show		65
37	2022	This England	Boris Johnson	57
38	2023	BLUE EYE SAMURAI	Abijah Fowler (voice)	85

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