Biography
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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Filmography
all 165
Movies 123
self 54
TV Shows 42
Voice 16
Producer 14
Director 14
Narrator 9

The King of Kings (2025)

BLUE EYE SAMURAI (2023)

A Haunting in Venice (2023)

Oppenheimer (2023)

This England (2022)

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

Death on the Nile (2022)

Fireheart (2022)

Belfast (2021)

Artemis Fowl (2020)

All Is True (2018)

Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

Dunkirk (2017)

Mindhorn (2016)

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale (2015)

Cinderella (2015)

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

Who's Afraid of Machiavelli? (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: Assembling the Troupe (2011)

Thor: Hammer Time (2011)

Prodigal (2011)

Thor (2011)

A Poem Is... (2011)

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)

The Graham Norton Show (2007)

The Magic Flute (2006)

As You Like It (2006)

Walking with Monsters (2005)

Walking with Monsters (2005)

Warm Springs (2005)

Five Children and It (2004)

Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (2004)

Listening (2003)

World War 1 in Colour (2003)

Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence (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)

Shackleton (2002)

The Beasts Within (2001)

Triumph of the Beasts (2001)

Walking with Beasts (2001)

Conspiracy (2001)

Schneider's 2nd Stage (2001)

Big Al (2000)

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000)

The Book That Wrote Itself (2000)

The Road to El Dorado (2000)

Love's Labour's Lost (2000)

The Will Smith - Music Video Collection (1999)

The Periwig-Maker (1999)

IMAX: Galapagos 3D (1999)

Walking with Dinosaurs (1999)

Wild Wild West (1999)

The Dance of Shiva (1998)

Universal Horror (1998)

Celebrity (1998)

The Proposition (1998)

The Gingerbread Man (1998)

Great Composers (1997)

Hamlet (1996)

Looking for Richard (1996)

Shadow of a Gunman (1995)

In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)

Anne Frank Remembered (1995)

Mary Shelley's 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)

American Experience (1988)

Strange Interlude (1988)

Thames Wallah (1988)

Fortunes of War (1987)

A Month in the Country (1987)

Ghosts (1987)

Lorna (1987)

The Lady's Not For Burning (1987)

Coming Through (1985)

Theatre Night (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)

Omnibus (1967)

Golden Globe Awards (1944)

The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1960-12-10 (64 years old)
Birth NameKenneth Charles Branagh
Birth PlaceBelfast, United Kingdom
Height1.77-meter
RelationshipsEmma Thompson (1989 - 1995), Helena Bonham Carter (1994 - 1999)
SpouseLindsay Brunnock
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesReading, United Kingdom
Also Known Asケネス・ブラナー, 케네스 브래너, 肯尼思·布拉纳, קנת' בראנה, کنت برانا
AwardsSociety 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, BAFTA Award for Best Direction, Emmy Award, Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
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