Kenneth Branagh

Known for ActingBorn 1960-12-10 (age 65)Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

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).Read more

Movies & web series

Schneider's 2nd Stage

Triumph of the Beasts

Shadow of a Gunman

The Lady's Not For Burning

The Boy in the Bush

Look Back in Anger

The Beasts Within

Altman on His Own Terms

The Dance of Shiva

Lorna

Easter 2016

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

BLUE EYE SAMURAI

Walking with Monsters

The King of Kings

Symphony for the Spire

Avengers: Infinity War

Oppenheimer

Walking with Dinosaurs

Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet

A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics

Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

Big Al

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood

London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Walking with Beasts

The Periwig-Maker

Dunkirk

Discovering Hamlet

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

Anne Frank Remembered

Listening

Wallander

Fireheart

Denzel Washington: A Model American

Tenet

The Boat That Rocked

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Conspiracy

The Road to El Dorado

The Graham Norton Show

Hamlet

Walking with Monsters

Belfast