Kenneth Branagh

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

132

Gender

Male

Birthday

1960-12-10 (63 years old)

Place of Birth

Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Also Known As

  • ケネス・ブラナー
  • Кеннет Брана
  • 케네스 브래너
  • 肯尼思·布拉纳
  • קנת' בראנה

Kenneth Branagh

Biography

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).

Known For

Avengers: Infinity War
8.2%

Avengers: Infinity War

Apr 25, 2018

Dunkirk
7.5%

Dunkirk

Jul 19, 2017

Tenet
7.2%

Tenet

Aug 22, 2020

Oppenheimer
8.1%

Oppenheimer

Jul 19, 2023

The Road to El Dorado
7.3%

The Road to El Dorado

Mar 31, 2000

Valkyrie
6.9%

Valkyrie

Dec 25, 2008

Death on the Nile
6.4%

Death on the Nile

Feb 9, 2022

Wild Wild West
5.3%

Wild Wild West

Jun 30, 1999

The Boat That Rocked
7.3%

The Boat That Rocked

Apr 1, 2009

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Acting

Mayday
2023
BLUE EYE SAMURAI as Abijah Fowler (voice)
2023
A Haunting in Venice as Hercule Poirot
2023
Oppenheimer as Niels Bohr
2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
2022
Denzel Washington - Un modèle américain as Self
2022
This England as Boris Johnson
2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder as Self - Director (archive footage)
2022
Death on the Nile as Hercule Poirot
2022
Fireheart as Shawn Nolan (voice)
2020
Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of 'Tenet' as Self
2020
Tenet as Andrei Sator
2019
Lost Lives
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
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
Mindhorn as Himself
2016
Upstart Crow as Colin/The Stranger
2015
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale as Leontes
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2014
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe as Self
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit as Viktor Cherevin
2013
National Theatre Live: 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 as Hercules Poirot (archive footage)
2011
My Week with Marilyn as Sir Laurence Olivier
2011
Discovering Hamlet as Hamlet (archive footage)
2011
Thor: From Asgard to Earth as Himself
2011
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope as Self
2011
Prodigal as Mark Snow
2010
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story as Self
2009
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics as Self
2009
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers as Self
2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year as Narrator (voice)
2009
The Boat That Rocked as Dormandy
2008
Valkyrie as Henning von Tresckow
2008
Wallander as Kurt Wallander
2008
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.
2007
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self
2007
James Ellis: An Actor's Life as Himself
2007
The Graham Norton Show as Self
2007
The Graham Norton Show as Self - Guest
2006
El hormiguero as Self
2006
As You Like It as self
2005
Walking with Monsters as Narrator (voice)
2005
Walking with Monsters as Narrator (voice)
2005
Warm Springs as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
2004
Five Children and It as Uncle Albert
2004
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter as Self
2004
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic as Narrator
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
2003
World War 1 in Colour as Narrator
2003
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence as Himself / Narrator
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Gilderoy Lockhart
2002
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog as Peter McGowan
2002
The Tramp and the Dictator as Narrator (voice)
2002
Rabbit-Proof Fence as A. O. Neville
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 Heydrich
2001
Schneider's 2nd Stage as Joseph Barnett
2000
Big Al as Narrator
2000
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces as Self / Narrator
2000
The Road to El Dorado as Miguel (voice)
2000
Love's Labour's Lost as Berowne
2000
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs as Narrator
1999
Wild Wild West: Evil Devices as Himself
1999
Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies as Himself
1999
The Periwig-Maker as Periwig-maker (voice)
1999
IMAX: Galapagos 3D as Narrator
1999
Walking with Dinosaurs as Narrator (voice)
1999
Wild Wild West as Dr. Arliss Loveless
1999
It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West' as Self
1999
The Theory of Flight as Richard
1998
The Dance of Shiva as Colonel Evans
1998
Universal Horror as Narrator
1998
Cold War
1998
Celebrity as Lee Simon
1998
The Proposition as Father Michael McKinnon
1998
The Gingerbread Man as Rick Magruder
1997
The View as Self
1997
Leute heute as Self
1996
Hamlet as Prince Hamlet
1996
Looking for Richard as Self / Interview
1995
Othello as Iago
1995
Shadow of a Gunman as Donal Davoren
1995
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
1995
Anne Frank Remembered as Narration (voice)
1994
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Victor Frankenstein
1994
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein as Self
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1993
Much Ado About Nothing as Benedick
1993
Swing Kids as Herr Knopp, Gestapo
1992
Peter's Friends as Andrew Benson
1991
Dead Again as Roman Strauss / Mike Church
1991
Performance as Donal Davoren
1990
Discovering Hamlet as Himself / Hamlet
1989
Look Back in Anger as Jimmy Porter
1989
Henry V as Henry V
1988
Thompson as Self
1988
American Experience as Narrator (voice)
1988
Strange Interlude as Gordon Evans
1987
A Month in the Country as James Soon
1987
Fortunes of War as Guy Pringle
1987
High Season as Rick
1987
Ghosts as Oswald
1987
Lorna as Billy Martin
1987
The Lady's Not For Burning as Thomas Mendip
1985
Coming Through as D.H. Lawrence
1984
A Coming to Terms for Billy as Billy Martin
1984
The Boy in the Bush as Jack Grant
1983
A Matter of Choice for Billy as Billy Martin
1983
To the Lighthouse as Charles Tansley
1982
Easter 2016 as Student
1982
Wogan as Self
1982
Too Late to Talk to Billy as Billy Martin
1981
Chariots of Fire as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
1970
Play for Today
1956
Tony Awards as Self
1953
The Oscars as Self

Crew

2005
Walking with Monsters as Acting Double

Directing

2023
A Haunting in Venice as Director
2022
Death on the Nile as Director
2021
Belfast as Director
2020
Artemis Fowl as Director
2018
All Is True as Director
2017
Murder on the Orient Express as Director
2016
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet as Director
2015
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale as Director
2015
Cinderella as Director
2014
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit as Director
2013
National Theatre Live: Macbeth as Stage Director
2011
Thor as Director
2007
Sleuth as Director
2006
The Magic Flute as Director
2006
As You Like It as Director
2003
Listening as Director
2000
Love's Labour's Lost as Director
1996
Hamlet as Director
1995
In the Bleak Midwinter as Director
1994
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Director
1993
Much Ado About Nothing as Director
1992
Peter's Friends as Director
1992
Swan Song as Director
1991
Dead Again as Director
1989
Henry V as Director
1988
Twelfth Night, or What You Will as Stage Director

Production

2023
A Haunting in Venice as Producer
2022
Death on the Nile as Producer
2021
Belfast as Producer
2020
Artemis Fowl as Producer
2018
All Is True as Producer
2017
Murder on the Orient Express as Producer
2013
Thor: The Dark World as Producer
2008
Wallander as Executive Producer
2007
Sleuth as Producer
2006
The Magic Flute as Producer
2000
Love's Labour's Lost as Producer
1994
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Co-Producer
1993
Much Ado About Nothing as Producer
1992
Peter's Friends as Producer

Writing

2021
Belfast as Writer
2006
The Magic Flute as Screenplay
2006
The Magic Flute as Adaptation
2006
As You Like It as Writer
2003
Listening as Writer
2000
Love's Labour's Lost as Screenplay
2000
Love's Labour's Lost as Writer
1996
Hamlet as Screenplay
1996
Hamlet as Writer
1995
In the Bleak Midwinter as Writer
1993
Much Ado About Nothing as Writer
1989
Henry V as Screenplay
1989
Henry V as Writer
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