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.
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).
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Filmography (Movies)
The Thomas Crown Affair
Character:
Release Date:04/03/2027
The Devil Wears Prada 2
Character:
Release Date:29/04/2026
Tea with Judi Dench
Character:Self
Release Date:22/12/2025
The King of Kings
Character:Charles Dickens (voice)
Release Date:07/04/2025
Murder Death & Haunting
Character:Self
Release Date:04/12/2023
A Haunting in Venice
Character:Hercule Poirot
Release Date:13/09/2023
Oppenheimer
Character:Niels Bohr
Release Date:19/07/2023
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Character:Self
Release Date:26/11/2022
Denzel Washington: A Model American
Character:Self
Release Date:15/10/2022
"Death on the Nile": Novel to Film
Character:Self
Release Date:13/04/2022
Agatha Christie: Travel Can Be Murder
Character:Self
Release Date:13/04/2022
Design on the Nile
Character:Self
Release Date:13/04/2022
Death on the Nile
Character:Hercule Poirot
Release Date:09/02/2022
Fireheart
Character:Shawn Nolan (voice)
Release Date:16/01/2022
Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’
Character:Self
Release Date:15/12/2020
Tenet
Character:Sator
Release Date:22/08/2020
Lost Lives
Character:
Release Date:10/10/2019
All Is True
Character:William Shakespeare
Release Date:21/12/2018
Avengers: Infinity War
Character:Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
Release Date:25/04/2018
Murder on the Orient Express
Character:Hercule Poirot
Release Date:03/11/2017
Dunkirk
Character:Commander Bolton
Release Date:19/07/2017
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
Character:Archie Rice
Release Date:27/10/2016
Mindhorn
Character:Himself
Release Date:09/10/2016
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
Character:Leontes
Release Date:30/11/2015
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
Character:Self
Release Date:18/03/2014
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Character:Viktor Cherevin
Release Date:15/01/2014
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Character:Macbeth
Release Date:19/07/2013
Stars in Shorts
Character:Mark Snow
Release Date:28/09/2012
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe
Character:Self
Release Date:25/09/2012
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
Character:Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Release Date:27/07/2012
My Week with Marilyn
Character:Sir Laurence Olivier
Release Date:23/11/2011
Discovering Hamlet
Character:Hamlet (archive footage)
Release Date:01/11/2011
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
Character:Self
Release Date:13/09/2011
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
Character:Self
Release Date:10/09/2011
Prodigal
Character:Mark Snow
Release Date:01/09/2011
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
Character:Self
Release Date:24/07/2010
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
Character:Self
Release Date:20/12/2009
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
Character:Self
Release Date:02/10/2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:02/07/2009
The Boat That Rocked
Character:Dormandy
Release Date:01/04/2009
Valkyrie
Character:Henning von Tresckow
Release Date:25/12/2008
Alien Love Triangle
Character:Steven Chesterman
Release Date:08/03/2008
Sleuth
Character:Other Man on T.V.
Release Date:12/10/2007
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
Character:Self
Release Date:11/08/2007
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Character:Himself
Release Date:02/07/2007
As You Like It
Character:Self (voice)
Release Date:01/09/2006
Walking with Monsters
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:05/11/2005
Warm Springs
Character:Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Release Date:30/04/2005
The Goebbels Experiment
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:13/04/2005
Five Children and It
Character:Uncle Albert
Release Date:15/10/2004
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Character:Self
Release Date:11/06/2004
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:05/04/2004
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Character:Himself / Narrator
Release Date:15/04/2003
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Character:Gilderoy Lockhart
Release Date:13/11/2002
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
Character:Peter McGowan
Release Date:22/02/2002
The Tramp and the Dictator
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:14/02/2002
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Character:A. O. Neville
Release Date:04/02/2002
The Beasts Within
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:28/11/2001
Triumph of the Beasts
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:21/11/2001
Conspiracy
Character:Reinhard Heydrich
Release Date:19/05/2001
Schneider's 2nd Stage
Character:Joseph Barnett
Release Date:31/03/2001
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Character:Self / Narrator
Release Date:24/10/2000
The Book That Wrote Itself
Character:Kenneth Branagh
Release Date:08/08/2000
The Road to El Dorado
Character:Miguel (voice)
Release Date:31/03/2000
Love's Labour's Lost
Character:Berowne
Release Date:31/03/2000
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
Character:Narrator
Release Date:12/03/2000
Altman on His Own Terms
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2000
Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies
Character:Himself
Release Date:30/11/1999
Wild Wild West: Evil Devices
Character:Himself
Release Date:30/11/1999
The Periwig-Maker
Character:Periwig-maker (voice)
Release Date:13/11/1999
IMAX: Galapagos 3D
Character:Narrator
Release Date:27/10/1999
Wild Wild West
Character:Dr. Arliss Loveless
Release Date:30/06/1999
It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'
Character:Self
Release Date:29/06/1999
The Theory of Flight
Character:Richard
Release Date:22/01/1999
The Dance of Shiva
Character:Colonel Evans
Release Date:18/12/1998
Universal Horror
Character:Narrator
Release Date:08/10/1998
Celebrity
Character:Lee Simon
Release Date:07/09/1998
The Proposition
Character:Father Michael McKinnon
Release Date:26/03/1998
The Gingerbread Man
Character:Rick Magruder
Release Date:23/01/1998
Hamlet
Character:Prince Hamlet
Release Date:25/12/1996
Looking for Richard
Character:Self - Interviewee
Release Date:11/10/1996
Othello
Character:Iago
Release Date:15/12/1995
Shadow of a Gunman
Character:Donal Davoren
Release Date:07/10/1995
Anne Frank Remembered
Character:Narration (voice)
Release Date:08/06/1995
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Character:Victor Frankenstein
Release Date:04/11/1994
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Character:Self
Release Date:25/10/1994
Much Ado About Nothing
Character:Benedick
Release Date:07/05/1993
Swing Kids
Character:Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)
Release Date:05/03/1993
Peter's Friends
Character:Andrew Benson
Release Date:18/09/1992
Symphony for the Spire
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1992
Dead Again
Character:Roman Strauss / Mike Church
Release Date:23/08/1991
Discovering Hamlet
Character:Himself / Hamlet
Release Date:07/01/1990
Look Back in Anger
Character:Jimmy Porter
Release Date:28/12/1989
Henry V
Character:Henry V
Release Date:05/10/1989
Strange Interlude
Character:Gordon Evans
Release Date:13/07/1988
Thames Wallah
Character:Narrator
Release Date:04/02/1988
A Month in the Country
Character:James Moon
Release Date:27/09/1987
High Season
Character:Rick
Release Date:01/09/1987
Ghosts
Character:Oswald Alving
Release Date:14/06/1987
Lorna
Character:Billy Martin
Release Date:02/06/1987
The Lady's Not For Burning
Character:Thomas Mendip
Release Date:01/01/1987
Coming Through
Character:D.H. Lawrence
Release Date:27/12/1985
A Coming to Terms for Billy
Character:Billy Martin
Release Date:21/02/1984
A Matter of Choice for Billy
Character:Billy Martin
Release Date:10/05/1983
To the Lighthouse
Character:Charles Tansley
Release Date:22/03/1983
Easter 2016
Character:Student
Release Date:18/05/1982
Too Late to Talk to Billy
Character:Billy Martin
Release Date:16/02/1982
Chariots of Fire
Character:Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
Release Date:15/05/1981
Television Appearances
The American Revolution
Character:voice
The American Revolution
Character:
BLUE EYE SAMURAI
Character:Abijah Fowler (voice)
This England
Character:Boris Johnson
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Character:Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Character:Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Character:Self
Wallander
Character:Kurt Wallander
10 Days to War
Character:Colonel Tim Collins
The Graham Norton Show
Character:Self
The Graham Norton Show
Character:Self - Guest
El hormiguero
Character:Self
Walking with Monsters
Character:Narrator (voice)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Character:Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Character:Self
World War 1 in Colour
Character:Narrator
Real Time with Bill Maher
Character:Self
Shackleton
Character:Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
Walking with Beasts
Character:Narrator
Big Al
Character:Narrator
Walking with Dinosaurs
Character:Narrator (voice)
Cold War
Character:
Parkinson
Character:Self
The View
Character:Self
Leute heute
Character:Self
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
Character:
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Character:Self - Guest
Performance
Character:Donal Davoren
Thompson
Character:Self
American Experience
Character:Narrator (voice)
Fortunes of War
Character:Guy Pringle
Theatre Night
Character:Oswald Alving
The Boy in the Bush
Character:Jack Grant
Wogan
Character:Self
Play for Today
Character:
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character:Self
Tony Awards
Character:Self
The Oscars
Character:Self
Golden Globe Awards
Character:Self - Nominee
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