Kenneth Branagh
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 ada…
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Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh
Acting (50)
Mayday
Nikolai Ustinov
A Haunting in Venice
Hercule Poirot
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Viktor Cherevin
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Macbeth
Stars in Shorts
Mark Snow
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
My Week with Marilyn
Sir Laurence Olivier
Discovering Hamlet
Hamlet (archive footage)
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
Self
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Narrator (voice)
The Boat That Rocked
Dormandy
Valkyrie
Henning von Tresckow
Sleuth
Other Man on T.V.
Walking with Monsters
Narrator (voice)
Warm Springs
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Five Children and It
Uncle Albert
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Self
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Himself / Narrator
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Gilderoy Lockhart
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
Peter McGowan
Rabbit-Proof Fence
A. O. Neville
Conspiracy
Reinhard Heydrich
The Road to El Dorado
Miguel (voice)
Love's Labour's Lost
Berowne
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
Narrator
The Periwig-Maker
Periwig-maker (voice)
IMAX: Galapagos 3D
Narrator
Wild Wild West
Dr. Arliss Loveless
The Theory of Flight
Richard
Universal Horror
Narrator
Celebrity
Lee Simon
The Gingerbread Man
Rick Magruder
Hamlet
Prince Hamlet
Looking for Richard
Self - Interviewee
Othello
Iago
Shadow of a Gunman
Donal Davoren
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Self
Much Ado About Nothing
Benedick
Peter's Friends
Andrew Benson
Dead Again
Roman Strauss / Mike Church
Discovering Hamlet
Himself / Hamlet
Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter
Henry V
Henry V
A Month in the Country
James Moon
High Season
Rick
Ghosts
Oswald Alving
Easter 2016
Student
Chariots of Fire
Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
Crew (50)
A Haunting in Venice
Director
2023A Haunting in Venice
Producer
2023
Death on the Nile
Director
2022Death on the Nile
Producer
2022
Belfast
Producer
2021
Artemis Fowl
Director
2020Artemis Fowl
Producer
2020
All Is True
Director
2018All Is True
Producer
2018
Murder on the Orient Express
Director
2017Murder on the Orient Express
Producer
2017
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
Director
2016
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
Director
2015
Cinderella
Director
2015Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Director
2014
Thor: The Dark World
Producer
2013National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Stage Director
2013
Thor
Director
2011Sleuth
Director
2007Sleuth
Producer
2007
The Magic Flute
Director
2006The Magic Flute
Screenplay
2006The Magic Flute
Producer
2006The Magic Flute
Adaptation
2006
As You Like It
Writer
2006As You Like It
Director
2006As You Like It
Producer
2006Listening
Director
2003Love's Labour's Lost
Writer
2000Love's Labour's Lost
Director
2000Love's Labour's Lost
Screenplay
2000Love's Labour's Lost
Producer
2000Hamlet
Director
1996
In the Bleak Midwinter
Director
1995In the Bleak Midwinter
Writer
1995Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Director
1994Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Co-Producer
1994Much Ado About Nothing
Director
1993Much Ado About Nothing
Producer
1993Much Ado About Nothing
Writer
1993Peter's Friends
Director
1992Peter's Friends
Producer
1992Swan Song
Director
1992Dead Again
Director
1991Henry V
Director
1989Henry V
Writer
1989
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Stage Director
1988Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Director
1988The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
Director
The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
Screenplay