Kenneth Branagh

Acting · 5.3 popularity

Age

Movies

108

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

108 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

A Haunting in Venice

20236.6

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

20146.1

Wild Wild West

19995.3

Valkyrie

20087.0

The Thomas Crown Affair

2027

The King of Kings

20258.3

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

19946.4

Mayday

2026

Much Ado About Nothing

19936.9

Chariots of Fire

19816.8

Celebrity

19986.0

Dead Again

19916.4

The Boat That Rocked

20097.2

Hamlet

19967.3

My Week with Marilyn

20116.7

Conspiracy

20017.3

Fireheart

20227.2

Henry V

19897.1

Swing Kids

19936.7

All Is True

20186.1

Looking for Richard

19966.8

Sleuth

20076.3

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe

20146.9

Rabbit-Proof Fence

20027.0

Five Children and It

20045.6

Mindhorn

20166.1

Warm Springs

20056.6

Altman on His Own Terms

20009.0

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

20106.8

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

20025.9

The Gingerbread Man

19985.6

Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer

20163.5

Peter's Friends

19926.6

The Proposition

19986.1

As You Like It

20065.8

Anne Frank Remembered

19957.6

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

20006.8

Denzel Washington: A Model American

20227.2

Love's Labour's Lost

20005.5

The Devil Wears Prada 2 Red Carpet World Premiere

20266.5

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

20097.5

The Goebbels Experiment

20056.4

A Month in the Country

19876.6

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

20047.7

Othello

19956.4

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope

20116.9

Discovering Hamlet

20117.5

Lorna

19879.0

Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe

20126.0

Goblin

2026

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

20206.3

London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder

20127.7

The Periwig-Maker

19997.6

Easter 2016

19829.0

Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic

20046.5

Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean

2026

The Theory of Flight

19996.3

Prodigal

20115.6

IMAX: Galapagos 3D

19996.6

High Season

19875.1

Lost Lives

20196.0

Alien Love Triangle

20086.7

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

20137.0

Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies

19996.0

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

20157.7

Thor: From Asgard to Earth

20117.0

The Tramp and the Dictator

20027.0

Atonement

20268.0

Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence

20038.0

Walking with Monsters

20057.3

Wild Wild West: Evil Devices

19994.0

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

20227.8

To the Lighthouse

19835.2

A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics

20098.0

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

20078.0

The Book That Wrote Itself

20007.0

Symphony for the Spire

19928.5

Thames Wallah

1988

Ghosts

19877.0

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

19947.7

Stars in Shorts

20126.0

Universal Horror

19987.1

A Matter of Choice for Billy

19836.0

James Ellis: An Actor's Life

2007

Discovering Hamlet

19905.9

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

19995.0

Too Late to Talk to Billy

19827.0

Coming Through

19854.7

Shadow of a Gunman

19957.0

Look Back in Anger

19899.3

Schneider's 2nd Stage

200110.0

Triumph of the Beasts

200110.0

The Beasts Within

20019.0

A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers

20096.7

The Lady's Not For Burning

198710.0

A Coming to Terms for Billy

19847.0

Tea with Judi Dench

2025

The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs

20007.1

The Dance of Shiva

19989.0