Cast
Kenneth Branagh
Acting
Cast
Kenneth Branagh
Known for
Acting
Born
1960-12-10
From
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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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 (2017âpresent). 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 (2008â2016). 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).
Avengers: Infinity War
as Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
The Devil Wears Prada 2
as Stuart
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Gilderoy Lockhart
Oppenheimer
as Niels Bohr
Dunkirk
as Commander Bolton
Tenet
as Sator
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
as Viktor Cherevin
Murder on the Orient Express
as Hercule Poirot
The Road to El Dorado
as Miguel (voice)
Death on the Nile
as Hercule Poirot
Valkyrie
as Henning von Tresckow
A Haunting in Venice
as Hercule Poirot
Wild Wild West
as Dr. Arliss Loveless
The King of Kings
as Charles Dickens (voice)
Conspiracy
as Reinhard Heydrich
Much Ado About Nothing
as Benedick
Chariots of Fire
as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
The Boat That Rocked
as Dormandy
Dead Again
as Roman Strauss / Mike Church
Celebrity
as Lee Simon
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Victor Frankenstein
Hamlet
as Prince Hamlet
My Week with Marilyn
as Sir Laurence Olivier
Swing Kids
as Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)
Henry V
as Henry V
Sleuth
as Other Man on T.V.
Fireheart
as Shawn Nolan (voice)
The Thomas Crown Affair
Mayday
as Nikolai Ustinov
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
as Self
Mindhorn
as Himself
The Gingerbread Man
as Rick Magruder
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
as Self
Warm Springs
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Five Children and It
as Uncle Albert
Rabbit-Proof Fence
as A. O. Neville
Peter's Friends
as Andrew Benson
As You Like It
as Self (voice)
Looking for Richard
as Self - Interviewee
Love's Labour's Lost
as Berowne
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
as Self
The Proposition
as Father Michael McKinnon
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
as Self
All Is True
as William Shakespeare
Ghosts
as Oswald Alving
A Month in the Country
as James Moon
Othello
as Iago
Lost Lives
as Narrator
Denzel Washington: A Model American
as Self
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
as Peter McGowan
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
as Self
Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of âTenetâ
as Self
The Theory of Flight
as Richard
The Book That Wrote Itself
as Kenneth Branagh
Altman on His Own Terms
as Self
Stars in Shorts
as Mark Snow
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'
as Self
Discovering Hamlet
as Hamlet (archive footage)
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
as Self
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Coming Through
as D.H. Lawrence
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Narrator (voice)
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
as Self / Narrator
The Periwig-Maker
as Periwig-maker (voice)
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe
as Self
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
as Self
Alien Love Triangle
as Steven Chesterman
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
as Self
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
as Archie Rice
To the Lighthouse
as Charles Tansley
The Beasts Within
as Narrator (voice)
Easter 2016
as Student
Atonement
as Michael Reid
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
as Leontes
IMAX: Galapagos 3D
as Narrator
Discovering Hamlet
as Himself / Hamlet
Universal Horror
as Narrator
Anne Frank Remembered
as Narration (voice)
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
as Himself
High Season
as Rick
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
as Macbeth
Shadow of a Gunman
as Donal Davoren
Lorna
as Billy Martin
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
as David Lean (voice)
A Coming to Terms for Billy
as Billy Martin
The Tramp and the Dictator
as Narrator (voice)
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
as Self
Look Back in Anger
as Jimmy Porter
The Lady's Not For Burning
as Thomas Mendip
The Dance of Shiva
as Colonel Evans
Walking with Monsters
as Narrator (voice)
Triumph of the Beasts
as Narrator (voice)
Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies
as Himself
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
as Narrator (voice)
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
as Himself / Narrator
Prodigal
as Mark Snow
Too Late to Talk to Billy
as Billy Martin
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
as Narrator
Wild Wild West: Evil Devices
as Himself
A Matter of Choice for Billy
as Billy Martin
The Goblin
as (voice)
Symphony for the Spire
Thames Wallah
as Narrator
The Goebbels Experiment
as Narrator (voice)
Schneider's 2nd Stage
as Joseph Barnett
Tea with Judi Dench
as Self