Kenneth Branagh

Acting · 4.9 popularity

Age

Movies

107

Born: December 10, 1960
From: 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).

Works

107 films

The Devil Wears Prada 2

20267.1

Avengers: Infinity War

20188.2

Oppenheimer

20238.0

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

20027.7

Tenet

20207.2

Dunkirk

20177.5

Death on the Nile

20226.4

Murder on the Orient Express

20176.7

The Road to El Dorado

20007.3

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

20146.1

A Haunting in Venice

20236.6

Wild Wild West

19995.3

Valkyrie

20087.0

The Thomas Crown Affair

2027

Much Ado About Nothing

19936.9

The King of Kings

20258.3

Mayday

2026

Celebrity

19986.0

Chariots of Fire

19816.8

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

19946.4

The Boat That Rocked

20097.2

Fireheart

20227.2

My Week with Marilyn

20116.7

Dead Again

19916.4

Conspiracy

20017.3

Hamlet

19967.3

Mindhorn

20166.1

Henry V

19897.1

Swing Kids

19936.7

All Is True

20186.1

Looking for Richard

19966.8

Five Children and It

20045.6

Sleuth

20076.3

Warm Springs

20056.6

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe

20146.9

Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer

20163.5

Altman on His Own Terms

20009.0

Peter's Friends

19926.6

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

20025.9

Rabbit-Proof Fence

20027.0

The Gingerbread Man

19985.6

As You Like It

20065.8

The Goebbels Experiment

20056.4

Anne Frank Remembered

19957.6

The Proposition

19986.1

Love's Labour's Lost

20005.5

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope

20116.9

A Month in the Country

19876.6

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

20106.8

Denzel Washington: A Model American

20227.2

Lorna

19879.0

Goblin

2026

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

20006.8

Othello

19956.4

Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’

20206.3

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

20047.7

Easter 2016

19829.0

Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic

20046.5

Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean

2026

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

20097.5

The Periwig-Maker

19997.6

London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder

20127.7

Prodigal

20115.6

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

20137.0

High Season

19875.1

Thor: From Asgard to Earth

20117.0

The Theory of Flight

19996.3

The Tramp and the Dictator

20027.0

Lost Lives

20196.0

Wild Wild West: Evil Devices

19994.0

Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe

20126.0

Alien Love Triangle

20086.7

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

19947.7

Discovering Hamlet

20117.5

Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies

19996.0

To the Lighthouse

19835.2

Stars in Shorts

20126.0

IMAX: Galapagos 3D

19996.6

The Book That Wrote Itself

20007.0

Thames Wallah

1988

A Matter of Choice for Billy

19836.0

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

20078.0

Discovering Hamlet

19905.9

Symphony for the Spire

19928.5

Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence

20038.0

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

20157.7

Universal Horror

19987.1

Walking with Monsters

20057.3

Ghosts

19877.0

James Ellis: An Actor's Life

2007

Shadow of a Gunman

19957.0

A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics

20098.0

A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers

20096.7

Look Back in Anger

19899.3

Atonement

20268.0

Schneider's 2nd Stage

200110.0

Triumph of the Beasts

200110.0

Too Late to Talk to Billy

19827.0

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

20227.8

The Beasts Within

20019.0

The Dance of Shiva

19989.0

Coming Through

19854.7

Tea with Judi Dench

2025

A Coming to Terms for Billy

19847.0

The Lady's Not For Burning

198710.0

It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'

19995.0

The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs

20007.1