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).
Acted in
The King of Kings
2025
as Charles Dickens (voice)
BLUE EYE SAMURAI
2023
as Abijah Fowler (voice)
A Haunting in Venice
2023
as Hercule Poirot
Oppenheimer
2023
as Niels Bohr
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
as Self
Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain
2022
as Self
This England
2022
as Boris Johnson
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder
2022
as Self - Director (archive footage)
Death on the Nile
2022
as Hercule Poirot
Fireheart
2022
as Shawn Nolan (voice)
Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of 'Tenet'
2020
as Self
Tenet
2020
as Sator
Lost Lives
2019
All Is True
2018
as William Shakespeare
Avengers: Infinity War
2018
as Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
Murder on the Orient Express
2017
as Hercule Poirot
Dunkirk
2017
as Commander Bolton
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
2016
as Archie Rice
Mindhorn
2016
as Himself
Upstart Crow
2016
as Colin/The Stranger
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
2015
as Leontes
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
2014
as Self
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2014
as Viktor Cherevin
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2013
as Macbeth, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, general in the King's army
Stars In Shorts
2012
as Mark Snow
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
2012
as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Honest Trailers
2012
as Hercules Poirot (archive footage)
My Week with Marilyn
2011
as Sir Laurence Olivier
Discovering Hamlet
2011
as Hamlet (archive footage)
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
2011
as Self
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
2011
as Self
Prodigal
2011
as Mark Snow
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
2010
as Self
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
2009
as Self
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
2009
as Self
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
as Narrator (voice)
The Boat That Rocked
2009
as Dormandy
Valkyrie
2008
as Henning von Tresckow
Wallander
2008
as Kurt Wallander
Wallander
2008
10 Days to War
2008
as Colonel Tim Collins
Alien Love Triangle
2008
as Steven Chesterman
Sleuth
2007
as Other Man on T.V.
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
2007
as Self
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
2007
as Himself
As You Like It
2006
as self
Walking with Monsters
2005
as Narrator (voice)
Walking with Monsters
2005
as Narrator (voice)
Warm Springs
2005
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Five Children and It
2004
as Uncle Albert
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
as Self
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
2004
as Narrator (voice)
World War 1 in Colour
2003
as Narrator
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
2003
as Himself / Narrator
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
as Gilderoy Lockhart
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
2002
as Peter McGowan
The Tramp and the Dictator
2002
as Narrator (voice)
Rabbit-Proof Fence
2002
as A. O. Neville
Shackleton
2002
as Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
The Beasts Within
2001
as Narrator (voice)
Triumph of the Beasts
2001
as Narrator (voice)
Walking with Beasts
2001
as Narrator
Conspiracy
2001
as Heydrich
Schneider's 2nd Stage
2001
as Joseph Barnett
Big Al
2000
as Narrator
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
2000
as Self / Narrator
The Book That Wrote Itself
2000
as Kenneth Branagh
The Road to El Dorado
2000
as Miguel (voice)
Love's Labour's Lost
2000
as Berowne
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
2000
as Narrator
Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies
1999
as Himself
Wild Wild West: Evil Devices
1999
as Himself
The Periwig-Maker
1999
as Periwig-maker (voice)
IMAX: Galapagos 3D
1999
as Narrator
Walking with Dinosaurs
1999
as Narrator (voice)
Wild Wild West
1999
as Dr. Arliss Loveless
It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'
1999
as Self
The Theory of Flight
1999
as Richard
The Dance of Shiva
1998
as Colonel Evans
Universal Horror
1998
as Narrator
Cold War
1998
Celebrity
1998
as Lee Simon
The Proposition
1998
as Father Michael McKinnon
The Gingerbread Man
1998
as Rick Magruder
Hamlet
1996
as Prince Hamlet
Looking for Richard
1996
as Self - Interviewee
Othello
1995
as Iago
Shadow of a Gunman
1995
as Donal Davoren
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
1995
Anne Frank Remembered
1995
as Narration (voice)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
as Victor Frankenstein
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994
as Self
Much Ado About Nothing
1993
as Benedick
Swing Kids
1993
as Herr Knopp, Gestapo
Peter's Friends
1992
as Andrew Benson
Dead Again
1991
as Roman Strauss / Mike Church
Performance
1991
as Donal Davoren
Discovering Hamlet
1990
as Himself / Hamlet
Look Back in Anger
1989
as Jimmy Porter
Henry V
1989
as Henry V
Thompson
1988
as Self
American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)
Strange Interlude
1988
as Gordon Evans
Thames Wallah
1988
as Narrator
A Month in the Country
1987
as James Soon
Fortunes of War
1987
as Guy Pringle
High Season
1987
as Rick
Ghosts
1987
as Oswald
Lorna
1987
as Billy Martin
The Lady's Not For Burning
1987
as Thomas Mendip
Coming Through
1985
as D.H. Lawrence
A Coming to Terms for Billy
1984
as Billy Martin
The Boy in the Bush
1984
as Jack Grant
A Matter of Choice for Billy
1983
as Billy Martin
To the Lighthouse
1983
as Charles Tansley
Easter 2016
1982
as Student
Too Late to Talk to Billy
1982
as Billy Martin
Chariots of Fire
1981
as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
Play for Today
1970
Tony Awards
1956
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
