Kenneth Branagh
Acting
🎂 1960-12-10
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.
Cast credits(140)
Self
2005
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2015
2019
Self
2014
Self
1962
Self
2007
Self - Guest
2007
Self
1997
Self - Guest
1993
1970
Self
2003
Self
2006
Self - Nominee
1944
Self
1998
Self
1956
Self
2003
Abijah Fowler (voice)
2023
Niels Bohr
2023
Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
2018
Self
1953
Kurt Wallander
2008
Gilderoy Lockhart
2002
Narrator (voice)
1988
Narrator (voice)
1999
Donal Davoren
1991
Hercules Poirot (archive footage)
2012
Self
1982
Self
1997
Narrator
2001
Boris Johnson
2022
1998
Narrator
2003
Sator
2020
Colonel Tim Collins
2008
Narrator
2000
Commander Bolton
2017
Jack Grant
1984
Charles Dickens (voice)
2025
Hercule Poirot
2022
Henning von Tresckow
2008
Hercule Poirot
2017
Shawn Nolan (voice)
2022
Miguel (voice)
2000
Guy Pringle
1987
Hercule Poirot
2023
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
2002
Oswald Alving
1985
Viktor Cherevin
2014
Narrator (voice)
2005
Dr. Arliss Loveless
1999
Prince Hamlet
1996
Benedick
1993
Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
1981
Victor Frankenstein
1994
Rick Magruder
1998
Dormandy
2009
2026
Henry V
1989
A. O. Neville
2002
Sir Laurence Olivier
2011
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2005
Other Man on T.V.
2007
Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)
1993
William Shakespeare
2018
Roman Strauss / Mike Church
1991
Lee Simon
1998
Andrew Benson
1992
Self
2004
Reinhard Heydrich
2001
Self
1988
Self
2014
Self - Director (archive footage)
2022
Self (voice)
2006
Iago
1995
Uncle Albert
2004
Rick
1987
Himself
2016
Self
2022
Father Michael McKinnon
1998
Self
2011
Self - Interviewee
1996
Richard
1999
Self
2010
Mark Snow
2012
Self
1994
Berowne
2000
Self
2022
Peter McGowan
2002
James Soon
1987
Narrator
1998
Macbeth, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, general in the King's army
2013
Narrator
1999
Hamlet (archive footage)
2011
Self
2000
Narrator (voice)
2002
Narrator (voice)
2005
1995
Self
2007
Charles Tansley
1983
Steven Chesterman
2008
Self
2011
Oswald Alving
1987
Narrator (voice)
2009
Self
1999
Himself / Hamlet
1990
Kenneth Branagh
2000
Self / Narrator
2000
Leontes
2015
Narration (voice)
1995
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
2012
D.H. Lawrence
1985
Gordon Evans
1988
2019
Periwig-maker (voice)
1999
Archie Rice
2016
Jimmy Porter
1989
Himself
2007
Self
2020
Billy Martin
1984
Himself
1999
Self
2009
Billy Martin
1983
Narrator (voice)
2004
Student
1982
Billy Martin
1982
Self
2009
Joseph Barnett
2001
Colonel Evans
1998
Narrator
2000
Himself / Narrator
2003
Donal Davoren
1995
Himself
1999
Billy Martin
1987
Mark Snow
2011
Narrator
1988
Thomas Mendip
1987
Narrator (voice)
2001
Narrator (voice)
2001
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Directing (28)
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2011
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2022
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2017
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2023
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2014
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1996
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2021
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1993
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1994
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2020
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1989
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2007
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2018
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1991
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1992
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2000
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1995
Stage Director
2013
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1992
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2016
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2006
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Stage Director
1988
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1988