Kenneth Branagh
Known for Acting · 147 credits
- Born
- 1960-12-10 (age 65)
- Place of birth
- Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
- Also known as
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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
TV Shows (40)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self / Self - Guest
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
as Self
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
The View
1997
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
Leute heute
1997
as Self
Play for Today
1970
Tony Awards
1956
as Self
El hormiguero
2006
as Self
American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
Wogan
1982
as Self
Omnibus
1967
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Parkinson
1998
as Self
Remembers…
2022
as Self
Performance
1991
as Donal Davoren
BLUE EYE SAMURAI
2023
as Abijah Fowler (voice)
Wallander
2008
as Kurt Wallander
The American Revolution
2025
as (voice)
Shackleton
2002
as Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
Walking with Dinosaurs
1999
as Self - Narrator (voice)
10 Days to War
2008
as Colonel Tim Collins
Fortunes of War
1987
as Guy Pringle
Theatre Night
1985
as Oswald Alving
Walking with Beasts
2001
as Narrator
This England
2022
as Boris Johnson
Cold War
1998
Thompson
1988
as Self
Big Al
2000
as Narrator
Walking with Monsters
2005
as Narrator (voice)
World War I in Colour
2003
as Narrator
The Boy in the Bush
1984
as Jack Grant
Strange Interlude
1988
as Gordon Evans
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
1995
Movies (107)
Avengers: Infinity War
2018
as Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
The Devil Wears Prada 2
2026
as Stuart
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
as Gilderoy Lockhart
Oppenheimer
2023
as Niels Bohr
Dunkirk
2017
as Commander Bolton
Tenet
2020
as Sator
Murder on the Orient Express
2017
as Hercule Poirot
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2014
as Viktor Cherevin
The Road to El Dorado
2000
as Miguel (voice)
Death on the Nile
2022
as Hercule Poirot
Valkyrie
2008
as Henning von Tresckow
Wild Wild West
1999
as Dr. Arliss Loveless
A Haunting in Venice
2023
as Hercule Poirot
The King of Kings
2025
as Charles Dickens (voice)
Much Ado About Nothing
1993
as Benedick
Dead Again
1991
as Roman Strauss / Mike Church
Conspiracy
2001
as Reinhard Heydrich
The Boat That Rocked
2009
as Dormandy
Celebrity
1998
as Lee Simon
Chariots of Fire
1981
as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
as Victor Frankenstein
Hamlet
1996
as Prince Hamlet
Swing Kids
1993
as Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)
The Thomas Crown Affair
2027
Sleuth
2007
as Other Man on T.V.
Mayday
2026
as Nikolai Ustinov
Fireheart
2022
as Shawn Nolan (voice)
My Week with Marilyn
2011
as Sir Laurence Olivier
Henry V
1989
as Henry V
Warm Springs
2005
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mindhorn
2016
as Himself
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
2014
as Self
Five Children and It
2004
as Uncle Albert
The Gingerbread Man
1998
as Rick Magruder
Love's Labour's Lost
2000
as Berowne
All Is True
2018
as William Shakespeare
As You Like It
2006
as Self (voice)
Looking for Richard
1996
as Self - Interviewee
Peter's Friends
1992
as Andrew Benson
Othello
1995
as Iago
Rabbit-Proof Fence
2002
as A. O. Neville
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
2010
as Self
A Month in the Country
1987
as James Moon
The Proposition
1998
as Father Michael McKinnon
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
2011
as Self
Denzel Washington: A Model American
2022
as Self
Ghosts
1987
as Oswald Alving
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
as Self
The Book That Wrote Itself
2000
as Kenneth Branagh
Lost Lives
2019
as Narrator
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
2002
as Peter McGowan
The Theory of Flight
1999
as Richard
Discovering Hamlet
2011
as Hamlet (archive footage)
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
as Self
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994
as Self
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
2000
as Self / Narrator
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe
2012
as Self
IMAX: Galapagos 3D
1999
as Narrator
Stars in Shorts
2012
as Mark Snow
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
2016
as Archie Rice
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
2012
as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
The Beasts Within
2001
as Narrator (voice)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
as Narrator (voice)
Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’
2020
as Self
Altman on His Own Terms
2000
as Self
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
2011
as Self
High Season
1987
as Rick
It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'
1999
as Self
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
2007
as Self
Coming Through
1985
as D.H. Lawrence
Easter 2016
1982
as Student
Anne Frank Remembered
1995
as Narration (voice)
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
2009
as Self
Shadow of a Gunman
1995
as Donal Davoren
Discovering Hamlet
1990
as Himself / Hamlet
Triumph of the Beasts
2001
as Narrator (voice)
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
2026
as David Lean (voice)
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
2009
as Self
Atonement
2026
as Michael Reid
The Periwig-Maker
1999
as Periwig-maker (voice)
Alien Love Triangle
2008
as Steven Chesterman
The Tramp and the Dictator
2002
as Narrator (voice)
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2013
as Macbeth
To the Lighthouse
1983
as Charles Tansley
Lorna
1987
as Billy Martin
Look Back in Anger
1989
as Jimmy Porter
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
2015
as Leontes
A Coming to Terms for Billy
1984
as Billy Martin
Universal Horror
1998
as Narrator
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
2007
as Himself
The Goblin
as (voice)
Prodigal
2011
as Mark Snow
The Dance of Shiva
1998
as Colonel Evans
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
2000
as Narrator
Walking with Monsters
2005
as Narrator (voice)
A Matter of Choice for Billy
1983
as Billy Martin
Symphony for the Spire
1992
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
2003
as Himself / Narrator
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
2004
as Narrator (voice)
The Lady's Not For Burning
1987
as Thomas Mendip
Wild Wild West: Evil Devices
1999
as Himself
Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies
1999
as Himself
Too Late to Talk to Billy
1982
as Billy Martin
The Goebbels Experiment
2005
as Narrator (voice)
Thames Wallah
1988
as Narrator
Schneider's 2nd Stage
2001
as Joseph Barnett
Tea with Judi Dench
2025
as Self
About Kenneth Branagh
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. Br… With 147 credits spanning from 1944 to 2027, Kenneth Branagh has appeared in 107 films and 40 TV shows.
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Most Popular Kenneth Branagh Movies
- Avengers: Infinity War (2018) — as Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
- The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) — as Stuart
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) — as Gilderoy Lockhart
- Oppenheimer (2023) — as Niels Bohr
- Dunkirk (2017) — as Commander Bolton
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