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Name
Kenneth Branagh

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1960-12-10 (66 years old)

Place of Birth
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Biography

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).

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Gilderoy Lockhart
2000 The Road to El Dorado as Miguel (voice)
1994 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Victor Frankenstein
2008 Valkyrie as Henning von Tresckow
1996 Hamlet as Prince Hamlet
1994 It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein as Self
1989 Henry V as Henry V
2007 Sleuth as Other Man on T.V.
1992 Peter's Friends as Andrew Benson
1991 Dead Again as Roman Strauss / Mike Church
1993 Much Ado About Nothing as Benedick
1999 Wild Wild West as Dr. Arliss Loveless
1998 Celebrity as Lee Simon
1981 Chariots of Fire as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
2002 Rabbit-Proof Fence as A. O. Neville
2001 Conspiracy as Reinhard Heydrich
1998 The Gingerbread Man as Rick Magruder
2005 Walking with Monsters as Narrator (voice)
2002 How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog as Peter McGowan
1987 A Month in the Country as James Moon
1995 Othello as Iago
2004 Five Children and It as Uncle Albert
2005 Warm Springs as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1999 IMAX: Galapagos 3D as Narrator
1999 The Periwig-Maker as Periwig-maker (voice)
2009 The Boat That Rocked as Dormandy
2000 Love's Labour's Lost as Berowne
2011 My Week with Marilyn as Sir Laurence Olivier
1999 The Theory of Flight as Richard
2026 Mayday as Nikolai Ustinov
2010 With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story as Self
2023 A Haunting in Venice as Hercule Poirot
1987 High Season as Rick
2012 London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
1987 Ghosts as Oswald Alving
1998 Universal Horror as Narrator
2012 Stars in Shorts as Mark Snow
2014 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit as Viktor Cherevin
2003 Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence as Himself / Narrator
2022 Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
2004 The Magic Touch of Harry Potter as Self
2011 Discovering Hamlet as Hamlet (archive footage)
2013 National Theatre Live: Macbeth as Macbeth
1995 Shadow of a Gunman as Donal Davoren
2000 The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs as Narrator
1989 Look Back in Anger as Jimmy Porter
1990 Discovering Hamlet as Himself / Hamlet
1996 Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee
2009 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year as Narrator (voice)
1982 Easter 2016 as Student
2000 Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces as Self / Narrator
2008 Alien Love Triangle as Steven Chesterman
2023 Oppenheimer as Niels Bohr
1998 The Proposition as Father Michael McKinnon
2001 Schneider's 2nd Stage as Joseph Barnett
2007 Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self
2014 Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe as Self
2022 Denzel Washington: A Model American as Self
2006 As You Like It as Self (voice)
1998 The Dance of Shiva as Colonel Evans
2015 Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale as Leontes
2025 The King of Kings as Charles Dickens (voice)
2017 Dunkirk as Commander Bolton
2004 Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic as Narrator (voice)
2017 Murder on the Orient Express as Hercule Poirot
1985 Coming Through as D.H. Lawrence
1995 Anne Frank Remembered as Narration (voice)
2002 The Tramp and the Dictator as Narrator (voice)
1984 A Coming to Terms for Billy as Billy Martin
1983 A Matter of Choice for Billy as Billy Martin
2011 Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope as Self
2000 The Book That Wrote Itself as Kenneth Branagh
2011 Prodigal as Mark Snow
2016 Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer as Archie Rice
1983 To the Lighthouse as Charles Tansley
1987 The Lady's Not For Burning as Thomas Mendip
1993 Swing Kids as Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)
2016 Mindhorn as Himself
2022 Death on the Nile as Hercule Poirot
2001 The Beasts Within as Narrator (voice)
2001 Triumph of the Beasts as Narrator (voice)
2018 Avengers: Infinity War as Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
2018 All Is True as William Shakespeare
2009 A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers as Self
2009 A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics as Self
1982 Too Late to Talk to Billy as Billy Martin
1987 Lorna as Billy Martin
2007 James Ellis: An Actor's Life as Himself
2020 Tenet as Sator
2019 Lost Lives as Narrator
2011 Thor: From Asgard to Earth as Self
1999 It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West' as Self
1999 Wild Wild West: Evil Devices as Himself
1999 Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies as Himself
2022 Fireheart as Shawn Nolan (voice)
1988 Thames Wallah as Narrator
2020 Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’ as Self
2000 Altman on His Own Terms as Self
2026 Atonement as Michael Reid
2026 The Devil Wears Prada 2 as Stuart
2027 The Thomas Crown Affair
1992 Symphony for the Spire
Soon Goblin as (voice)
2005 The Goebbels Experiment as Narrator (voice)
2025 Tea with Judi Dench featuring Kenneth Branagh as Self
2026 Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean as David Lean (voice)
2018 Marvel Studios: The First 10 Years - More Than a Hero as Self

2001 Walking with Beasts ( 6 episodes ) as Narrator
2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
1997 The View ( 1 episode ) as Self
1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2000 The Ballad of Big Al ( 2 episodes ) as Narrator
1970 Play for Today ( 3 episodes )
1998 Cold War ( 24 episodes )
2002 Shackleton ( 2 episodes ) as Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
1987 Fortunes of War ( 7 episodes ) as Guy Pringle
1953 The Oscars ( 2 episodes ) as Self
1988 Thompson ( 6 episodes ) as Self
1995 Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood ( 6 episodes )
2023 BLUE EYE SAMURAI ( 8 episodes ) as Abijah Fowler (voice)
1991 Performance ( 1 episode ) as Donal Davoren
2005 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2006 El hormiguero ( 1 episode ) as Self
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Self
1984 The Boy in the Bush ( 4 episodes ) as Jack Grant
2022 This England ( 6 episodes ) as Boris Johnson
2003 Real Time with Bill Maher ( 1 episode ) as Self
2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 1 episode ) as Self
1988 American Experience ( 1 episode ) as Narrator (voice)
1999 Walking with Dinosaurs ( 6 episodes ) as Self - Narrator (voice)
2003 World War I in Colour ( 6 episodes ) as Narrator
1982 Wogan ( 1 episode ) as Self
2007 The Graham Norton Show ( 6 episodes ) as Self
2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
1997 Leute heute ( 1 episode ) as Self
2008 10 Days to War ( 1 episode ) as Colonel Tim Collins
2007 The Graham Norton Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 1 episode ) as Self
2005 Walking with Monsters ( 3 episodes ) as Narrator (voice)
1998 Parkinson ( 1 episode ) as Self
1985 Theatre Night ( 1 episode ) as Oswald Alving
1944 Golden Globe Awards ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Nominee
2008 Wallander ( 12 episodes ) as Kurt Wallander
2025 The American Revolution ( 6 episodes ) as (voice)
2022 Remembers… ( 1 episode ) as Self
1988 Strange Interlude ( 3 episodes ) as Gordon Evans
1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self
1967 Omnibus ( 1 episode )
1982 American Playhouse ( 3 episodes ) as Gordon Evans
1971 Film '72 ( 5 episodes ) as Self
Soon Laird ( 1 episode ) as Laird of Castle Drummoch
1996 TFI Friday ( 1 episode )
2004 Parkinson ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2015 Hot Ones ( 1 episode ) as Self

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