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).
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · The King of Kings as Charles Dickens (voice)
- 2023 · BLUE EYE SAMURAI as Abijah Fowler (voice)
- 2023 · A Haunting in Venice as Hercule Poirot
- 2023 · Oppenheimer as Niels Bohr
- 2022 · Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
- 2022 · Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain as Self
- 2022 · This England as Boris Johnson
- 2022 · Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder as Self - Director (archive footage)
- 2022 · Death on the Nile as Hercule Poirot
- 2022 · Fireheart as Shawn Nolan (voice)
- 2020 · Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of 'Tenet' as Self
- 2020 · Tenet as Sator
- 2016 · Mindhorn as Himself
- 2015 · Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale as Leontes
- 2013 · National Theatre Live: Macbeth as Macbeth, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, general in the King's army
- 2012 · Stars In Shorts as Mark Snow
- 2010 · With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story as Self
- 2009 · A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics as Self
- 2009 · A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers as Self
- 2009 · 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year as Narrator (voice)
- 2008 · Alien Love Triangle as Steven Chesterman
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self
- 2005 · Walking with Monsters as Narrator (voice)
- 2005 · Walking with Monsters as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence as Himself / Narrator
- 2002 · How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog as Peter McGowan
- 2002 · The Tramp and the Dictator as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · The Beasts Within as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · Big Al as Narrator
- 2000 · Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces as Self / Narrator
- 2000 · Love's Labour's Lost as Berowne
- 1999 · The Periwig-Maker as Periwig-maker (voice)
- 1999 · IMAX: Galapagos 3D as Narrator
- 1999 · It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West' as Self
- 1999 · The Theory of Flight as Richard
- 1998 · The Proposition as Father Michael McKinnon
- 1998 · The Gingerbread Man as Rick Magruder
- 1998 · Parkinson as Self
- Future · Mayday as
- 2019 · Lost Lives as
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as
- 2018 · All Is True as William Shakespeare
- 2018 · Avengers: Infinity War as Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
- 2017 · Murder on the Orient Express as Hercule Poirot
- 2017 · Dunkirk as Commander Bolton
- 2016 · Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer as Archie Rice
- 2016 · Upstart Crow as Colin/The Stranger
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2014 · Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe as Self
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit as Viktor Cherevin
- 2012 · London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- 2012 · Honest Trailers as Hercules Poirot (archive footage)
- 2011 · My Week with Marilyn as Sir Laurence Olivier
- 2011 · Discovering Hamlet as Hamlet (archive footage)
- 2011 · Thor: From Asgard to Earth as Self
- 2011 · Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope as Self
- 2011 · Prodigal as Mark Snow
- 2009 · The Boat That Rocked as Dormandy
- 2008 · Valkyrie as Henning von Tresckow
- 2008 · Wallander as Kurt Wallander
- 2008 · Wallander as
- 2008 · 10 Days to War as Colonel Tim Collins
- 2007 · Sleuth as Other Man on T.V.
- 2007 · James Ellis: An Actor's Life as Himself
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · El hormiguero as Self
- 2006 · As You Like It as self
- 2005 · Warm Springs as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2004 · Five Children and It as Uncle Albert
- 2004 · The Magic Touch of Harry Potter as Self
- 2004 · Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2003 · World War 1 in Colour as Narrator
- 2003 · Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
- 2002 · Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Gilderoy Lockhart
- 2002 · Rabbit-Proof Fence as A. O. Neville
- 2002 · Shackleton as Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
- 2001 · Triumph of the Beasts as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Walking with Beasts as Narrator
- 2001 · Conspiracy as Heydrich
- 2001 · Schneider's 2nd Stage as Joseph Barnett
- 2000 · The Book That Wrote Itself as Kenneth Branagh
- 2000 · The Road to El Dorado as Miguel (voice)
- 2000 · The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs as Narrator
- 1999 · Wild Wild West: Evil Devices as Himself
- 1999 · Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies as Himself
- 1999 · Walking with Dinosaurs as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · Wild Wild West as Dr. Arliss Loveless
- 1998 · The Dance of Shiva as Colonel Evans
- 1998 · Universal Horror as Narrator
- 1998 · Cold War as
- 1998 · Celebrity as Lee Simon
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · Leute heute as Self
- 1996 · Hamlet as Prince Hamlet
- 1996 · Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee
- 1995 · Othello as Iago
- 1995 · Shadow of a Gunman as Donal Davoren
- 1995 · Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood as
- 1995 · Anne Frank Remembered as Narration (voice)
- 1994 · Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Victor Frankenstein
- 1994 · It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein as Self
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1993 · Much Ado About Nothing as Benedick
- 1993 · Swing Kids as Herr Knopp, Gestapo
- 1992 · Peter's Friends as Andrew Benson
- 1991 · Dead Again as Roman Strauss / Mike Church
- 1991 · Performance as Donal Davoren
- 1990 · Discovering Hamlet as Himself / Hamlet
- 1989 · Look Back in Anger as Jimmy Porter
- 1989 · Henry V as Henry V
- 1988 · Thompson as Self
- 1988 · American Experience as Narrator (voice)
- 1988 · Strange Interlude as Gordon Evans
- 1988 · Thames Wallah as Narrator
- 1987 · A Month in the Country as James Soon
- 1987 · Fortunes of War as Guy Pringle
- 1987 · High Season as Rick
- 1987 · Ghosts as Oswald
- 1987 · Lorna as Billy Martin
- 1987 · The Lady's Not For Burning as Thomas Mendip
- 1985 · Coming Through as D.H. Lawrence
- 1984 · A Coming to Terms for Billy as Billy Martin
- 1984 · The Boy in the Bush as Jack Grant
- 1983 · A Matter of Choice for Billy as Billy Martin
- 1983 · To the Lighthouse as Charles Tansley
- 1982 · Easter 2016 as Student
- 1982 · Wogan as Self
- 1982 · Too Late to Talk to Billy as Billy Martin
- 1981 · Chariots of Fire as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
- 1970 · Play for Today as
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self