Kenneth Branagh
Ator, Realização, Produção, Escrito por
10 de dezembro de 1960 (65 anos)
Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (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).
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).
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Filmografia
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| 2026 | Mayday · as Nikolai Ustinov |
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| 2025 | The American Revolution (2025) · as (voice) |
| 2025 | The King of Kings · as Charles Dickens (voice) |
| 2024 | A Gentleman in Moscow · as Count Alexander Rostov |
| 2023 | Blue Eye Samurai · as Abijah Fowler (voice) |
| 2023 | A Haunting in Venice · as Hercule Poirot |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer · as Niels Bohr |
| 2022 | This England · as Boris Johnson |
| 2022 | Death on the Nile · as Hercule Poirot |
| 2022 | Fireheart · as Shawn Nolan (voice) |
| 2020 | Tenet · as Sator |
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| 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 · as Colin |
| 2015 | Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale · as Leontes |
| 2014 | Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit · as Viktor Cherevin |
| 2013 | Macbeth · as Macbeth |
| 2012 | Stars in Shorts · as Mark Snow |
| 2012 | London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder · as Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
| 2012 | London 2012: Games of the XXX Olympiad · as Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
| 2011 | My Week with Marilyn · as Sir Laurence OlivierNo Plex |
| 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) · as Kurt Wallander |
| 2008 | 10 Days to War · 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 · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | Warm Springs · as Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| 2005 | The Goebbels Experiment · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2004 | Five Children and It · as Uncle Albert |
| 2004 | Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | World War I in Colour · 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 · as Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton |
| 2001 | The Beasts Within · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | Triumph of the Beasts · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | Walking with Beasts · as Narrator |
| 2001 | Conspiracy · as Reinhard Heydrich |
| 2001 | Short6 · as Periwig-Maker (segment "the Periwig-Maker") |
| 2000 | How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog · as Peter McgowanNo Plex |
| 2000 | Big Al Uncovered · as Narrator (uk Version) |
| 2000 | The Ballad of Big Al · 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 | Wild Wild West · as Dr. Arliss Loveless |
| 1998 | The Theory of Flight · as Richard |
| 1998 | Celebrity · as Lee SimonNo Plex |
| 1998 | Universal Horror · as Narrator |
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| 1998 | The Proposition · as Father Michael Mckinnon |
| 1998 | The Gingerbread Man · as Rick Magruder |
| 1997 | The Great Composers · as Narrator |
| 1996 | Hamlet · as Prince Hamlet |
| 1995 | Othello · as Iago |
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| 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 (uncredited) |
| 1992 | Peter's Friends · as Andrew Benson |
| 1991 | Performance · 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 |
| 1988 | American Experience · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1987 | The Lady's Not for Burning · as Thomas Mendip |
| 1987 | A Month in the Country · as James MoonNo Plex |
| 1987 | Fortunes of War · as Guy Pringle |
| 1987 | High Season · as RickNo Plex |
| 1985 | Coming Through · as D.h. LawrenceNo Plex |
| 1985 | Theatre Night · as Oswald Alving |
| 1983 | To the Lighthouse · as Charles Tansley |
| 1981 | 40 Minutes · as Narrator |
| 1981 | Chariots of Fire · as Cambridge Student At Society Day (uncredited) |
| 1980 | American Playhouse · as Gordon Evans |
| 1980 | Mystery! · as Kurt Wallander |
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| 1967 | Omnibus (1967) · as Narrator |
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| 2008 | Wallander (UK) · as Executive Producer |
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| 1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein · as Co-Producer |
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| 2006 | The Magic Flute · as Screenplay |
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| 2013 | Macbeth · as Stage Director |
| 1996 | Hamlet · as Adaptation |
| 1988 | Twelfth Night, or What You Will · as Stage Director |