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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 10, 1960
Place of Birth
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Also Known As
- ケネス・ブラナー
- 케네스 브래너
- 肯尼思·布拉纳
- קנת' בראנה
- کنت برانا
Kenneth Branagh
3.2 Popularity
Biography
Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (/ˈbrænə/ BRAN-ə; 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Branagh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
8.1
Charles Dickens (voice)
The King of Kings
2025
8.5
Abijah Fowler (voice)
BLUE EYE SAMURAI
2023
6.6
Hercule Poirot
A Haunting in Venice
2023
8.1
Niels Bohr
Oppenheimer
2023
7.6
Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
7.8
Self
Denzel Washington: A Model American
2022
5.7
Boris Johnson
This England
2022
7.0
Self - Director (archive footage)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder
2022
6.4
Hercule Poirot
Death on the Nile
2022
7.2
Shawn Nolan (voice)
Fireheart
2022
Credits
The King of Kings
as Charles Dickens (voice)
2025
8.1
BLUE EYE SAMURAI
as Abijah Fowler (voice)
2023
8.5
A Haunting in Venice
as Hercule Poirot
2023
6.6
Oppenheimer
as Niels Bohr
2023
8.1
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
2022
7.6
Denzel Washington: A Model American
as Self
2022
7.8
This England
as Boris Johnson
2022
5.7
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder
as Self - Director (archive footage)
2022
7.0
Death on the Nile
as Hercule Poirot
2022
6.4
Fireheart
as Shawn Nolan (voice)
2022
7.2
Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’
as Self
2020
0.0
Tenet
as Sator
2020
7.2
Lost Lives
2019
6.0
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
6.4
All Is True
as William Shakespeare
2018
6.0
Avengers: Infinity War
as Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
2018
8.2
Murder on the Orient Express
as Hercule Poirot
2017
6.7
Dunkirk
as Commander Bolton
2017
7.5
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
as Archie Rice
2016
3.5
Mindhorn
as Himself
2016
6.1
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
as Leontes
2015
7.7
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.3
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
as Self
2014
6.9
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
as Viktor Cherevin
2014
6.1
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
as Macbeth, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, general in the King's army
2013
7.0
Stars In Shorts
as Mark Snow
2012
0.0
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
2012
7.7
Honest Trailers
as Hercules Poirot (archive footage)
2012
6.4
My Week with Marilyn
as Sir Laurence Olivier
2011
6.7
Discovering Hamlet
as Hamlet (archive footage)
2011
7.0
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
as Self
2011
7.0
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
as Self
2011
6.9
Prodigal
as Mark Snow
2011
5.6
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
as Self
2010
6.8
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
as Self
2009
8.0
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
as Self
2009
6.7
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Narrator (voice)
2009
7.5
The Boat That Rocked
as Dormandy
2009
7.2
Valkyrie
as Henning von Tresckow
2008
6.9
Wallander
as Kurt Wallander
2008
7.3
10 Days to War
as Colonel Tim Collins
2008
6.4
Alien Love Triangle
as Steven Chesterman
2008
5.5
Sleuth
as Other Man on T.V.
2007
6.3
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
as Self
2007
0.0
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
as Himself
2007
0.0
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
as Self - Guest
2007
7.2
El hormiguero
as Self
2006
4.8
As You Like It
as Self (voice)
2006
5.7
Walking with Monsters
as Narrator (voice)
2005
8.5
Walking with Monsters
as Narrator (voice)
2005
7.2
Warm Springs
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2005
6.8
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
2005
6.8
Five Children and It
as Uncle Albert
2004
5.5
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
as Self
2004
7.6
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
as Narrator (voice)
2004
6.0
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.7
World War 1 in Colour
as Narrator
2003
6.3
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
as Himself / Narrator
2003
8.0
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
2003
6.0
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Gilderoy Lockhart
2002
7.7
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
as Peter McGowan
2002
5.9
The Tramp and the Dictator
as Narrator (voice)
2002
6.9
Rabbit-Proof Fence
as A. O. Neville
2002
7.0
Shackleton
as Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
2002
7.1
The Beasts Within
as Narrator (voice)
2001
0.0
Triumph of the Beasts
as Narrator (voice)
2001
0.0
Walking with Beasts
as Narrator
2001
7.7
Conspiracy
as Reinhard Heydrich
2001
7.3
🎬
Schneider's 2nd Stage
as Joseph Barnett
2001
0.0
Big Al
as Narrator
2000
7.7
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
as Self / Narrator
2000
6.5
The Book That Wrote Itself
as Kenneth Branagh
2000
4.0
The Road to El Dorado
as Miguel (voice)
2000
7.2
Love's Labour's Lost
as Berowne
2000
5.6
🎬
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
as Narrator
2000
6.5
Altman on His Own Terms
as Self
2000
0.0
Wild Wild West: Evil Devices
as Himself
1999
4.0
🎬
Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies
as Himself
1999
6.0
The Periwig-Maker
as Periwig-maker (voice)
1999
7.5
IMAX: Galapagos 3D
as Narrator
1999
6.4
Walking with Dinosaurs
as Narrator (voice)
1999
8.2
Wild Wild West
as Dr. Arliss Loveless
1999
5.3
It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'
as Self
1999
4.9
The Theory of Flight
as Richard
1999
6.2
The Dance of Shiva
as Colonel Evans
1998
0.0
Universal Horror
as Narrator
1998
7.1
Cold War
1998
6.7
Celebrity
as Lee Simon
1998
6.0
The Proposition
as Father Michael McKinnon
1998
6.2
The Gingerbread Man
as Rick Magruder
1998
5.6
Parkinson
as Self
1998
0.0
The View
as Self
1997
4.5
🎬
Leute heute
as Self
1997
3.0
Hamlet
as Prince Hamlet
1996
7.3
Looking for Richard
as Self - Interviewee
1996
6.8
Othello
as Iago
1995
6.4
Shadow of a Gunman
as Donal Davoren
1995
0.0
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
1995
8.0
Anne Frank Remembered
as Narration (voice)
1995
7.6
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Victor Frankenstein
1994
6.4
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
as Self
1994
8.5
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
Much Ado About Nothing
as Benedick
1993
6.9
Swing Kids
as Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)
1993
6.7
Peter's Friends
as Andrew Benson
1992
6.5
Dead Again
as Roman Strauss / Mike Church
1991
6.4
Performance
as Donal Davoren
1991
6.0
Discovering Hamlet
as Himself / Hamlet
1990
5.7
Look Back in Anger
as Jimmy Porter
1989
9.0
Henry V
as Henry V
1989
7.1
🎬
Thompson
as Self
1988
1.0
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
1988
7.4
Strange Interlude
as Gordon Evans
1988
5.0
Thames Wallah
as Narrator
1988
0.0
Fortunes of War
as Guy Pringle
1987
6.4
A Month in the Country
as James Soon
1987
6.4
High Season
as Rick
1987
5.3
Ghosts
as Oswald Alving
1987
0.0
Lorna
as Billy Martin
1987
0.0
The Lady's Not For Burning
as Thomas Mendip
1987
0.0
Coming Through
as D.H. Lawrence
1985
4.8
🎬
Theatre Night
as Oswald Alving
1985
0.0
A Coming to Terms for Billy
as Billy Martin
1984
0.0
The Boy in the Bush
as Jack Grant
1984
0.0
A Matter of Choice for Billy
as Billy Martin
1983
4.0
To the Lighthouse
as Charles Tansley
1983
5.4
Easter 2016
as Student
1982
0.0
Wogan
as Self
1982
4.5
Too Late to Talk to Billy
as Billy Martin
1982
0.0
Chariots of Fire
as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
1981
6.8
Play for Today
1970
6.3
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.4
Tony Awards
as Self
1956
5.1
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.0
Mayday
N/A
0.0
🎬
Atonement
N/A
0.0