Biography
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).
Filmography
all 155
Movies 118
self 49
TV Shows 37
Narrator 15
Director 12
Voice 3
Producer 2
BLUE EYE SAMURAI (2023)
A Haunting in Venice (2023)
Oppenheimer (2023)
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba (2022)
Denzel Washington - Un modèle américain (2022)
This England (2022)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
Death on the Nile (2022)
Fireheart (2022)
This Cultural Life (2021)
Belfast (2021)
Agatha & Poirot: Partners in Crime (2021)
Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted! (2021)
Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of 'Tenet' (2020)
Tenet (2020)
Artemis Fowl (2020)
Lost Lives (2019)
The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019)
All Is True (2018)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Dunkirk (2017)
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer (2016)
Mindhorn (2016)
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet (2016)
All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film (2016)
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale (2015)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
Cinderella (2015)
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe (2014)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli? (2013)
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
National Theatre Live: Macbeth (2013)
Stars In Shorts (2012)
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder (2012)
Honest Trailers (2012)
My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Discovering Hamlet (2011)
Thor: Hammer Time (2011)
Thor: Assembling the Troupe (2011)
Thor: From Asgard to Earth (2011)
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope (2011)
Prodigal (2011)
Thor (2011)
A Poem Is... (2011)
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story (2010)
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics (2009)
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers (2009)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009)
The Boat That Rocked (2009)
Valkyrie (2008)
Wallander (2008)
10 Days to War (2008)
Alien Love Triangle (2008)
Sleuth (2007)
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out (2007)
James Ellis: An Actor's Life (2007)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
El hormiguero (2006)
The Magic Flute (2006)
As You Like It (2006)
Walking with Monsters (2005)
Walking with Monsters (2005)
Warm Springs (2005)
The Goebbels Experiment (2005)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005)
Five Children and It (2004)
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter (2004)
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (2004)
Listening (2003)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003)
World War 1 in Colour (2003)
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence (2003)
Real Time with Bill Maher (2003)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2002)
The Tramp and the Dictator (2002)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Robert Altman in England (2002)
Shackleton (2002)
The Beasts Within (2001)
Triumph of the Beasts (2001)
Walking with Beasts (2001)
Conspiracy (2001)
Short6 (2001)
Schneider's 2nd Stage (2001)
Big Al (2000)
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000)
The Road to El Dorado (2000)
Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs (2000)
The Will Smith - Music Video Collection (1999)
Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies (1999)
Wild Wild West: Evil Devices (1999)
The Periwig-Maker (1999)
IMAX: Galapagos 3D (1999)
Walking with Dinosaurs (1999)
Wild Wild West (1999)
It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West' (1999)
Talking Movies (1999)
The Theory of Flight (1999)
The Dance of Shiva (1998)
Universal Horror (1998)
Cold War (1998)
Celebrity (1998)
The Proposition (1998)
The Gingerbread Man (1998)
Great Composers (1997)
The View (1997)
Leute heute (1997)
Hamlet (1996)
Looking for Richard (1996)
Othello (1995)
Shadow of a Gunman (1995)
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995)
In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)
Anne Frank Remembered (1995)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein (1994)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Swing Kids (1993)
Peter's Friends (1992)
Swan Song (1992)
Symphony for the Spire (1992)
Dead Again (1991)
Performance (1991)
Discovering Hamlet (1990)
Look Back in Anger (1989)
Henry V (1989)
Twelfth Night, or What You Will (1988)
Thompson (1988)
American Experience (1988)
Strange Interlude (1988)
A Month in the Country (1987)
Fortunes of War (1987)
High Season (1987)
Ghosts (1987)
Lorna (1987)
The Lady's Not For Burning (1987)
Coming Through (1985)
A Coming to Terms for Billy (1984)
The Boy in the Bush (1984)
A Matter of Choice for Billy (1983)
To the Lighthouse (1983)
Easter 2016 (1982)
Wogan (1982)
Too Late to Talk to Billy (1982)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Play for Today (1970)
Tony Awards (1956)
The Oscars (1953)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1960-12-10 (63 years old)
Birth NameKenneth Charles Branagh
Birth PlaceBelfast, United Kingdom
Height1.77-meter
RelationshipsEmma Thompson (1989-08-20 - 1995-01-01), Helena Bonham Carter (1994-01-01 - 1999-01-01)
SpouseLindsay Brunnock
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesReading, United Kingdom
Also Known Asケネス・ブラナー, Кеннет Брана, 케네스 브래너, 肯尼思·布拉纳, קנת' בראנה
AwardsEmmy Award, BAFTA Award for Best Direction, Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Society of London Theatre Special Award, Young European Film of the Year, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie, European Film Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, Knight Bachelor
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