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person_profile-Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh Age: 64

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Dec 10, 1960

Country of birth:

UK

Biography of

Kenneth Branagh

    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).

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Filmography of

Kenneth Branagh

Found 88 Movies in total

... 2024

A Haunting in Venice

Hercule Poirot ( Actor )

Director

... 2023

Oppenheimer

Niels Bohr ( Actor )

... 2023

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder

Self (archival footage) - Director ( Actor )

... 2022

Death on the Nile

Hercule Poirot ( Actor )

Director

... 2022

Fireheart

Shawn Nolan (voice) ( Actor )

... 2022

Tenet

Andrei Sator ( Actor )

... 2020

... 2019

All Is True

William Shakespeare ( Actor )

Director

... 2018

Avengers: Infinity War

Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2018

... 2017

Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot ( Actor )

Director

... 2017

Dunkirk

Commander Bolton ( Actor )

... 2017

... 2016

Mindhorn

Himself ( Actor )

... 2016

... 2015

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Viktor Cherevin ( Actor )

Director

... 2014

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

Macbeth, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, general in the King's army ( Actor )

Stage Director

... 2013

Stars In Shorts

Mark Snow ( Actor )

... 2012

... 2012

My Week with Marilyn

Sir Laurence Olivier ( Actor )

... 2011

Discovering Hamlet

Hamlet (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2011

... 2011

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

... 2009

The Boat That Rocked

Dormandy ( Actor )

... 2009

Valkyrie

Henning von Tresckow ( Actor )

... 2008

Sleuth

Other Man on T.V. ( Actor )

Director

... 2007

... 2007

... 2007

As You Like It

self ( Actor )

Writer

... 2006

Walking with Monsters

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

... 2005

Warm Springs

Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( Actor )

... 2005

Five Children and It

Uncle Albert ( Actor )

... 2004

... 2004

... 2004

Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence

Himself / Narrator ( Actor )

... 2003

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Gilderoy Lockhart ( Actor )

... 2002

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

Peter McGowan ( Actor )

... 2002

The Tramp and the Dictator

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

... 2002

Rabbit-Proof Fence

A. O. Neville ( Actor )

... 2002

The Beasts Within

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

... 2001

Triumph of the Beasts

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

... 2001

Conspiracy

Reinhard Heydrich ( Actor )

... 2001

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

Self / Narrator ( Actor )

... 2000

The Book That Wrote Itself

Kenneth Branagh ( Actor )

... 2000

The Road to El Dorado

Miguel (voice) ( Actor )

... 2000

Love's Labour's Lost

Berowne ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 2000

IMAX: Galapagos 3D

Narrator ( Actor )

... 1999

Wild Wild West

Dr. Arliss Loveless ( Actor )

... 1999

The Theory of Flight

Richard ( Actor )

... 1999

Universal Horror

Narrator ( Actor )

... 1998

Celebrity

Lee Simon ( Actor )

... 1998

The Proposition

Father Michael McKinnon ( Actor )

... 1998

The Gingerbread Man

Rick Magruder ( Actor )

... 1998

Hamlet

Prince Hamlet ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1996

Looking for Richard

Self / Interview ( Actor )

... 1996

Othello

Iago ( Actor )

... 1995

Shadow of a Gunman

Donal Davoren ( Actor )

... 1995

Anne Frank Remembered

Narration (voice) ( Actor )

... 1995

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein ( Actor )

Director

... 1994

Much Ado About Nothing

Benedick ( Actor )

Writer

... 1993

Swing Kids

Herr Knopp, Gestapo ( Actor )

... 1993

Peter's Friends

Andrew Benson ( Actor )

Director

... 1992

Dead Again

Roman Strauss / Mike Church ( Actor )

Director

... 1991

Discovering Hamlet

Himself / Hamlet ( Actor )

... 1990

Look Back in Anger

Jimmy Porter ( Actor )

... 1989

Henry V

Henry V ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1989

Strange Interlude

Gordon Evans ( Actor )

... 1988

Thames Wallah

Narrator ( Actor )

... 1988

A Month in the Country

James Soon ( Actor )

... 1987

High Season

Rick ( Actor )

... 1987

Ghosts

Oswald ( Actor )

... 1987

Lorna

Billy Martin ( Actor )

... 1987

The Lady's Not For Burning

Thomas Mendip ( Actor )

... 1987

Coming Through

D.H. Lawrence ( Actor )

... 1985

A Coming to Terms for Billy

Billy Martin ( Actor )

... 1984

A Matter of Choice for Billy

Billy Martin ( Actor )

... 1983

To the Lighthouse

Charles Tansley ( Actor )

... 1983

Easter 2016

Student ( Actor )

... 1982

Too Late to Talk to Billy

Billy Martin ( Actor )

... 1982

Chariots of Fire

Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1981