Cast

Kenneth Branagh

Acting

Cast

Kenneth Branagh

Known for

Acting

Born

1960-12-10

From

Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Also known as ケネス・ブラナー, 케네스 브래너, 肯尼思·布拉纳

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).

Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh

Biography

The Devil Wears Prada 2

Oppenheimer

Avengers: Infinity War

Death on the Nile

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Tenet

Dunkirk

Murder on the Orient Express

Mayday

The Road to El Dorado

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Valkyrie

A Haunting in Venice

The King of Kings

My Week with Marilyn

Wild Wild West

The Boat That Rocked

Chariots of Fire

Much Ado About Nothing

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Celebrity

Fireheart

Conspiracy

Dead Again

The Thomas Crown Affair

Hamlet

The Gingerbread Man

Swing Kids

The Goblin

Love's Labour's Lost

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe

Lorna

Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer

Looking for Richard

All Is True

Five Children and It

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Sleuth

Prodigal

Warm Springs

Henry V

Anne Frank Remembered

Mindhorn

As You Like It

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

A Month in the Country

Stars in Shorts

The Proposition

The Goebbels Experiment

Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope

Easter 2016

Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic

Peter's Friends

Denzel Washington: A Model American

Discovering Hamlet

The Theory of Flight

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe

Othello

Thames Wallah

London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder

To the Lighthouse

IMAX: Galapagos 3D

The Making of Dunkirk

Alien Love Triangle

The Periwig-Maker

Look Back in Anger

Walking with Monsters

Thor: From Asgard to Earth

Wild Wild West: Evil Devices

Atonement

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

Altman on His Own Terms

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

High Season