Kenneth Branagh
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.
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
(Reinhard 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 Alving)
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)
The Tramp and the Dictator
(Narrator (voice))
Anne Frank Remembered
(Narration (voice))
A Matter of Choice for Billy
(Billy Martin)
A Coming to Terms 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 (uncredited))
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: Loveless's Ladies
(Himself)
Wild Wild West: Evil Devices
(Himself)
Fireheart
(Shawn Nolan (voice))
Thames Wallah
(Narrator)
Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’
(Self)
Altman on His Own Terms
(Self)
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))
Walking with Dinosaurs
(Narrator (voice))
World War 1 in Colour
(Narrator)
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)
Theatre Night
(Oswald Alving)
Golden Globe Awards
(Self - Nominee)
Omnibus
(Self)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
(Director)
Hamlet
(Director)
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
(Director)
The Magic Flute
(Screenplay)
Henry V
(Writer)
In the Bleak Midwinter
(Writer)
As You Like It
(Writer)
Much Ado About Nothing
(Writer)
Love's Labour's Lost
(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
(Screenplay)
Love's Labour's Lost
(Producer)
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
(Producer)
The Magic Flute
(Adaptation)
Death on the Nile
(Producer)
Listening
(Director)
Listening
(Writer)
Belfast
(Writer)
Belfast
(Director)
Hamlet
(Adaptation)
Wallander
(Executive Producer)
Walking with Monsters
(Acting Double)