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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).

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114 Credits

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Avengers: Infinity War 2018
Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
Thor 2011
Director
Dunkirk 2017
Commander Bolton
Murder on the Orient Express 2017
Director, Hercule Poirot, Producer
Death on the Nile 2022
Hercule Poirot, Director, Producer
Valkyrie 2008
Henning von Tresckow
Wild Wild West 1999
Dr. Arliss Loveless
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit 2014
Viktor Cherevin, Director
A Haunting in Venice 2023
Hercule Poirot, Producer, Director

Credit 114

2025 The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde Director, Screenplay

2025 Mayday

2025 Atonement

2025 The King of Kings as Charles Dickens (voice)

2023 BLUE EYE SAMURAI as Abijah Fowler (voice)

2023 A Haunting in Venice as Hercule Poirot Producer, Director

2023 Oppenheimer as Niels Bohr

2022 Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self

2022 Denzel Washington: A Model American as Self

2022 Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder as Self - Director (archive footage)

2022 Death on the Nile as Hercule Poirot Director, Producer

2022 Fireheart as Shawn Nolan (voice)

2021 Belfast Producer, Writer, Director

2020 Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’ as Self

2020 Tenet as Sator

2020 Artemis Fowl Director, Producer

2019 Lost Lives

2018 All Is True as William Shakespeare Director, Producer

2018 Avengers: Infinity War as Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)

2017 Murder on the Orient Express as Hercule Poirot Director, Producer

2017 Dunkirk as Commander Bolton

2016 Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer as Archie Rice

2016 Mindhorn as Himself

2016 Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet Director

2015 Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale as Leontes Director

2015 Cinderella Director

2014 Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe as Self

2014 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit as Viktor Cherevin Director

2013 Thor: The Dark World Producer

2013 National Theatre Live: Macbeth as Macbeth, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, general in the King's army Stage Director

2012 Stars In Shorts as Mark Snow

2012 London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder as Isambard Kingdom Brunel

2011 My Week with Marilyn as Sir Laurence Olivier

2011 Discovering Hamlet as Hamlet (archive footage)

2011 Thor: From Asgard to Earth as Self

2011 Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope as Self

2011 Prodigal as Mark Snow

2011 Thor Director

2010 With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story as Self

2009 A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics as Self

2009 A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers as Self

2009 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year as Narrator (voice)

2009 The Boat That Rocked as Dormandy

2008 Valkyrie as Henning von Tresckow

2008 Alien Love Triangle as Steven Chesterman

2007 Sleuth as Other Man on T.V. Director, Producer

2007 Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self

2007 James Ellis: An Actor's Life as Himself

2006 The Magic Flute Director, Screenplay, Producer, Adaptation

2006 As You Like It as Self (voice) Writer, Director, Producer

2005 Walking with Monsters as Narrator (voice)

2005 Warm Springs as Franklin Delano Roosevelt

2004 Five Children and It as Uncle Albert

2004 The Magic Touch of Harry Potter as Self

2004 Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic as Narrator (voice)

2003 Listening Director, Writer

2003 Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence as Himself / Narrator

2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Gilderoy Lockhart

2002 How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog as Peter McGowan

2002 The Tramp and the Dictator as Narrator (voice)

2002 Rabbit-Proof Fence as A. O. Neville

2001 The Beasts Within as Narrator (voice)

2001 Triumph of the Beasts as Narrator (voice)

2001 Conspiracy as Reinhard Heydrich

2001 Schneider's 2nd Stage as Joseph Barnett

2000 Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces as Self / Narrator

2000 The Book That Wrote Itself as Kenneth Branagh

2000 The Road to El Dorado as Miguel (voice)

2000 Love's Labour's Lost as Berowne Writer, Director, Screenplay, Producer

2000 The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs as Narrator

2000 Altman on His Own Terms as Self

1999 Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies as Himself

1999 Wild Wild West: Evil Devices as Himself

1999 The Periwig-Maker as Periwig-maker (voice)

1999 IMAX: Galapagos 3D as Narrator

1999 Wild Wild West as Dr. Arliss Loveless

1999 It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West' as Self

1999 The Theory of Flight as Richard

1998 The Dance of Shiva as Colonel Evans

1998 Universal Horror as Narrator

1998 Celebrity as Lee Simon

1998 The Proposition as Father Michael McKinnon

1998 The Gingerbread Man as Rick Magruder

1996 Hamlet as Prince Hamlet Director, Adaptation

1996 Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee

1995 Othello as Iago

1995 Shadow of a Gunman as Donal Davoren

1995 In the Bleak Midwinter Director, Writer

1995 Anne Frank Remembered as Narration (voice)

1994 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Victor Frankenstein Director, Co-Producer

1994 It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein as Self

1993 Much Ado About Nothing as Benedick Director, Producer, Writer

1993 Swing Kids as Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)

1992 Peter's Friends as Andrew Benson Director, Producer

1992 Swan Song Director

1991 Dead Again as Roman Strauss / Mike Church Director

1990 Discovering Hamlet as Himself / Hamlet

1989 Look Back in Anger as Jimmy Porter

1989 Henry V as Henry V Director, Writer

1988 Twelfth Night, or What You Will Stage Director, Director

1988 Strange Interlude as Gordon Evans

1988 Thames Wallah as Narrator

1987 A Month in the Country as James Soon

1987 High Season as Rick

1987 Ghosts as Oswald Alving

1987 Lorna as Billy Martin

1987 The Lady's Not For Burning as Thomas Mendip

1985 Coming Through as D.H. Lawrence

1984 A Coming to Terms for Billy as Billy Martin

1983 A Matter of Choice for Billy as Billy Martin

1983 To the Lighthouse as Charles Tansley

1982 Easter 2016 as Student

1982 Too Late to Talk to Billy as Billy Martin

1981 Chariots of Fire as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)

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6.81 Family 6

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6.67 Drama 44

6.53 Crime 4

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5.99 Comedy 21

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