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Kenneth Branagh
Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Additional Credits
Born December 10, 1960 (63 years)
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).
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).
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Filmography
| 2025 | The King of Kings · as Charles Dickens (voice) |
| 2024 | A Gentleman In Moscow (TV Series) · as Count Alexander Rostov |
| 2023 | Blue Eye Samurai (TV Series) · as Abijah Fowler (voice) |
| 2023 | A Haunting in Venice · as Hercule Poirot |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer · as Niels Bohr |
| 2022 | This England (TV Series) · as Boris Johnson |
| 2022 | Death on the Nile · as Hercule Poirot |
| 2022 | Fireheart · as Shawn Nolan (voice) |
| 2020 | Tenet · as Sator |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | The Kelly Clarkson Show (TV Series) |
| 2018 | All Is True · as William Shakespeare |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War · as Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited) |
| 2017 | Murder on the Orient Express · as Hercule Poirot |
| 2017 | Dunkirk · as Commander Bolton |
| 2016 | Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer · as Archie Rice |
| 2016 | Upstart Crow (TV Series) · as Colin |
| 2015 | Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale · as Leontes |
| 2014 | Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit · as Viktor Cherevin |
| 2013 | Macbeth · as Macbeth, Thane Of Glamis And Cawdor, General In The King's Army |
| 2012 | Stars in Shorts · as Mark Snow |
| 2012 | London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder · as Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
| 2012 | Honest Trailers (TV Series) · as Hercules Poirot (archive Footage) |
| 2011 | My Week with Marilyn · as Sir Laurence Olivier |
| 2011 | Discovering Hamlet · as Hamlet (archive Footage) |
| 2011 | Prodigal · as Mark Snow |
| 2009 | 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2009 | The Boat That Rocked · as Dormandy |
| 2008 | Valkyrie · as Henning Von Tresckow |
| 2008 | Wallander (UK) (TV Series) · as Kurt Wallander |
| 2008 | 10 Days to War (TV Series) · as Colonel Tim Collins |
| 2008 | Alien Love Triangle · as Steven Chesterman |
| 2007 | Sleuth · as Other Man On T.v. |
| 2005 | Walking with Monsters · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | Walking with Monsters (TV Series) · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | Warm Springs · as Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| 2005 | The Goebbels Experiment · as Narrator |
| 2004 | Five Children and It · as Uncle Albert |
| 2004 | Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | World War I in Colour (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2003 | Build a Scene · as Prof. Gilderoy Lockhart |
| 2003 | Interviews with Students · as Prof. Gilderoy Lockhart |
| 2002 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets · as Gilderoy Lockhart |
| 2002 | Rabbit-Proof Fence · as A. O. Neville |
| 2002 | The Tramp and the Dictator · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2002 | Shackleton (TV Series) · as Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton |
| 2001 | The Beasts Within · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | Triumph of the Beasts · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | Walking with Beasts (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2001 | Conspiracy · as Heydrich |
| 2001 | Short6 · as Periwig-Maker (segment "the Periwig-Maker") |
| 2000 | How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog · as Peter Mcgowan |
| 2000 | Big Al Uncovered · as Narrator (uk Version) |
| 2000 | The Ballad of Big Al (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2000 | The Road to El Dorado · as Miguel (voice) |
| 2000 | Love's Labour's Lost · as Berowne |
| 1999 | The Will Smith Music Video Collection · as Dr. Arliss Loveless (segment "wild Wild West") |
| 1999 | The Periwig-Maker · as Periwig-Maker (voice) |
| 1999 | Galapagos · as Narrator |
| 1999 | Walking with Dinosaurs: The Making Of · as Narrator |
| 1999 | Walking with Dinosaurs (TV Series) · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1999 | Wild Wild West · as Dr. Arliss Loveless |
| 1999 | Will Smith: Wild Wild West · as Dr. Arliss Loveless |
| 1998 | The Theory of Flight · as Richard |
| 1998 | |
| 1998 | Universal Horror · as Narrator |
| 1998 | Cold War (TV Series) |
| 1998 | The Proposition · as Father Michael Mckinnon |
| 1998 | The Gingerbread Man · as Rick Magruder |
| 1997 | The Great Composers (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 1996 | |
| 1995 | Othello · as Iago |
| 1995 | Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (TV Series) |
| 1995 | Anne Frank Remembered · as Narration (voice) |
| 1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein · as Victor Frankenstein |
| 1993 | Much Ado About Nothing · as Benedick |
| 1993 | Swing Kids · as Herr Knopp, Gestapo |
| 1992 | Peter's Friends · as Andrew Benson |
| 1991 | Performance (TV Series) · as Donal Davoren |
| 1991 | Dead Again · as Roman Strauss / Mike Church |
| 1989 | Look Back in Anger · as Jimmy Porter |
| 1989 | Henry V · as Henry V |
| 1987 | American Experience (TV Series) · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1987 | The Lady's Not for Burning · as Thomas Mendip |
| 1987 | A Month in the Country · as James Soon |
| 1987 | Fortunes of War (TV Series) · as Guy Pringle |
| 1987 | High Season · as Rick |
| 1985 | Coming Through · as D.h. Lawrence |
| 1985 | Theatre Night (TV Series) · as Oswald |
| 1983 | To the Lighthouse · as Charles Tansley |
| 1981 | Chariots of Fire · as Cambridge Student At Society Day (uncredited) |
| 1980 | American Playhouse (TV Series) · as Gordon Evans |
| 1980 | Love Again (TV Series) · as Kurt Wallander |
| 1970 | Play for Today (TV Series) |
| 1967 | Omnibus (1967) (TV Series) · as Narrator |