Kenneth Branagh
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
140
Gender
Male
Birthday
1960-12-10 (64 years old)
Place of Birth
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Kenneth Branagh
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).
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Graham Norton Show
The Graham Norton Show
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Leute heute
Real Time with Bill Maher
El hormiguero
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Avengers: Infinity War
Tony Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Wogan
American Experience
The View
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Play for Today
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Oppenheimer
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Parkinson
BLUE EYE SAMURAI
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
The Oscars
Tenet
Performance
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
The King of Kings
The Road to El Dorado
Dunkirk
Valkyrie
Death on the Nile
Wallander
Wild Wild West
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
Murder on the Orient Express
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Hamlet
The Boat That Rocked
A Haunting in Venice
The Devil Wears Prada 2
Ghosts
Anne Frank Remembered
Universal Horror
Mindhorn
Much Ado About Nothing
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
Discovering Hamlet
The Gingerbread Man
My Week with Marilyn
Big Al
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Strange Interlude
Five Children and It
Henry V
Fireheart
Peter's Friends
Walking with Dinosaurs
The Thomas Crown Affair
Othello
Shadow of a Gunman
Look Back in Anger
IMAX: Galapagos 3D
Dead Again
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
Swing Kids
To the Lighthouse
Sleuth
Chariots of Fire
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
Love's Labour's Lost
Shackleton
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Discovering Hamlet
Lost Lives
Celebrity
The Lady's Not For Burning
Fortunes of War
Walking with Beasts
Conspiracy
Altman on His Own Terms
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
As You Like It
A Month in the Country
This England
The Proposition
Mayday
Theatre Night
Denzel Washington: A Model American
Easter 2016
All Is True
Looking for Richard
Prodigal
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’
10 Days to War
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Coming Through
Cold War
Walking with Monsters
Thompson
High Season
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
The Theory of Flight
Stars In Shorts
The Boy in the Bush
The Book That Wrote Itself
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
Lorna
World War 1 in Colour
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
Warm Springs
Alien Love Triangle
The Tramp and the Dictator
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
A Matter of Choice for Billy
Atonement
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
Schneider's 2nd Stage
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe
Thames Wallah
The Dance of Shiva
The Periwig-Maker
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
Wild Wild West: Evil Devices
Walking with Monsters
Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies
Triumph of the Beasts
Too Late to Talk to Billy
A Coming to Terms for Billy
The Beasts Within
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
