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