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