Kenneth Branagh

Actor

Born December 10, 1960 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

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.

Filmography

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Mayday

Nikolai Ustinov

The Making of Dunkirk

Self

Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean

David Lean (voice)

Atonement

Michael Reid

The Devil Wears Prada 2

Stuart

Tea with Judi Dench

Self

The American Revolution

(voice)

The King of Kings

Charles Dickens (voice)

BLUE EYE SAMURAI

Abijah Fowler (voice)

A Haunting in Venice

Hercule Poirot

Oppenheimer

Niels Bohr

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

Self

Denzel Washington: A Model American

Self

This England

Boris Johnson

Remembers…

Self

Death on the Nile

Hercule Poirot

Fireheart

Shawn Nolan (voice)

Belfast

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

Self

Tenet

Sator

Artemis Fowl

Lost Lives

Narrator

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Self

All Is True

William Shakespeare

Avengers: Infinity War

Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)

Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot

Dunkirk

Commander Bolton

Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer

Archie Rice

Mindhorn

Himself

Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

Leontes

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self

Cinderella

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe

Self

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Viktor Cherevin

Thor: The Dark World

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

Macbeth

Stars in Shorts

Mark Snow

Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe

Self

London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

My Week with Marilyn

Sir Laurence Olivier

Discovering Hamlet

Hamlet (archive footage)

Thor: From Asgard to Earth

Self

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope

Self

Prodigal

Mark Snow

Thor

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

Self

A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics

Self

A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers

Self

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

Narrator (voice)

The Boat That Rocked

Dormandy

Valkyrie

Henning von Tresckow

Wallander

Kurt Wallander

10 Days to War

Colonel Tim Collins

Alien Love Triangle

Steven Chesterman

Sleuth

Other Man on T.V.

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

Self

James Ellis: An Actor's Life

Himself

The Graham Norton Show

Self

El hormiguero

Self

The Magic Flute

As You Like It

Self (voice)

Walking with Monsters

Narrator (voice)

Walking with Monsters

Narrator (voice)

Warm Springs

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Goebbels Experiment

Narrator (voice)

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Self

Five Children and It

Uncle Albert

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

Self

Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic

Narrator (voice)

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Self

World War I in Colour

Narrator

Real Time with Bill Maher

Self

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Gilderoy Lockhart

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

Peter McGowan

The Tramp and the Dictator

Narrator (voice)

Rabbit-Proof Fence

A. O. Neville

Shackleton

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

The Beasts Within

Narrator (voice)

Triumph of the Beasts

Narrator (voice)

Walking with Beasts

Narrator

Conspiracy

Reinhard Heydrich

Big Al

Narrator

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

Self / Narrator

The Book That Wrote Itself

Kenneth Branagh

The Road to El Dorado

Miguel (voice)

Love's Labour's Lost

Berowne

Altman on His Own Terms

Self

Wild Wild West: Evil Devices

Himself

The Periwig-Maker

Periwig-maker (voice)

IMAX: Galapagos 3D

Narrator

Walking with Dinosaurs

Self - Narrator (voice)

Wild Wild West

Dr. Arliss Loveless

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

Self

The Theory of Flight

Richard

The Dance of Shiva

Colonel Evans

Universal Horror

Narrator

Celebrity

Lee Simon

Cold War

The Proposition

Father Michael McKinnon

The Gingerbread Man

Rick Magruder

Parkinson

Self

The View

Self

Leute heute

Self

Hamlet

Prince Hamlet

Looking for Richard

Self - Interviewee

Othello

Iago

Shadow of a Gunman

Donal Davoren

Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood

In the Bleak Midwinter

Anne Frank Remembered

Narration (voice)

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

Self

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Self - Guest

Much Ado About Nothing

Benedick

Swing Kids

Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)

Peter's Friends

Andrew Benson

Symphony for the Spire

Performance

Donal Davoren

Dead Again

Roman Strauss / Mike Church

Discovering Hamlet

Himself / Hamlet

Look Back in Anger

Jimmy Porter

Henry V

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

American Experience

Narrator (voice)

Thames Wallah

Narrator

Strange Interlude

Gordon Evans

Fortunes of War

Guy Pringle

A Month in the Country

James Moon

High Season

Rick

Ghosts

Oswald Alving

Lorna

Billy Martin

The Lady's Not For Burning

Thomas Mendip

Coming Through

D.H. Lawrence

Theatre Night

Oswald Alving

A Coming to Terms for Billy

Billy Martin

The Boy in the Bush

Jack Grant

A Matter of Choice for Billy

Billy Martin

To the Lighthouse

Charles Tansley

Easter 2016

Student

Wogan

Self

Too Late to Talk to Billy

Billy Martin

American Playhouse

Gordon Evans

Chariots of Fire

Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)

Play for Today

Omnibus

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self

Tony Awards

Self

The Oscars

Self

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Nominee