Kenneth Branagh
Age: N/A | From: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: ケネス・ブラナー , 케네스 브래너 , 肯尼思·布拉纳 , קנת' בראנה , کنت برانا
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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Movie Involvements: 128
TV Involvements: 20
Most Famous Work
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Branagh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
Oppenheimer
(2023) Niels Bohr
Tenet
(2020) Sator
Avengers: Infinity War
(2018) Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
Leute heute
(1997) Self
American Experience
(1988) Narrator (voice)
Honest Trailers
(2012) Hercules Poirot (archive footage)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
(2002) Gilderoy Lockhart
Tony Awards
(1956) SelfActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Abijah Fowler (voice) | |
| Hercule Poirot | ||
| Niels Bohr | ||
| 2022 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| Boris Johnson | ||
| Self - Director (archive footage) | ||
| Hercule Poirot | ||
| Shawn Nolan (voice) | ||
| 2020 | Self | |
| Sator | ||
| 2019 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 2018 | William Shakespeare | |
| Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited) | ||
| 2017 | Hercule Poirot | |
| Commander Bolton | ||
| 2016 | Archie Rice | |
| Himself | ||
| Colin/The Stranger | ||
| 2015 | Leontes | |
| Self | ||
| 2014 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| Viktor Cherevin | ||
| 2013 | Macbeth, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, general in the King's army | |
| 2012 | Mark Snow | |
| Isambard Kingdom Brunel | ||
| Hercules Poirot (archive footage) | ||
| 2011 | Sir Laurence Olivier | |
| Hamlet (archive footage) | ||
| Himself | ||
| Self | ||
| Mark Snow | ||
| 2010 | Self | |
| 2009 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Dormandy | ||
| 2008 | Henning von Tresckow | |
| Kurt Wallander | ||
| N/A | ||
| Colonel Tim Collins | ||
| Steven Chesterman | ||
| 2007 | Other Man on T.V. | |
| Self | ||
| Himself | ||
| Self | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| 2006 | Self | |
| self | ||
| 2005 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | ||
| Self | ||
| 2004 | Uncle Albert | |
| Self | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2003 | Self | |
| Narrator | ||
| Himself / Narrator | ||
| Self | ||
| 2002 | Gilderoy Lockhart | |
| Peter McGowan | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| A. O. Neville | ||
| Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton | ||
| 2001 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Heydrich | ||
| Joseph Barnett | ||
| 2000 | Narrator | |
| Self / Narrator | ||
| Miguel (voice) | ||
| Berowne | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1999 | Himself | |
| Himself | ||
| Periwig-maker (voice) | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Dr. Arliss Loveless | ||
| Self | ||
| Richard | ||
| 1998 | Colonel Evans | |
| Narrator | ||
| N/A | ||
| Lee Simon | ||
| Father Michael McKinnon | ||
| Rick Magruder | ||
| 1997 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| 1996 | Prince Hamlet | |
| Self - Interviewee | ||
| 1995 | Iago | |
| Donal Davoren | ||
| N/A | ||
| Narration (voice) | ||
| 1994 | Victor Frankenstein | |
| Self | ||
| 1993 | Self - Guest | |
| Benedick | ||
| Herr Knopp, Gestapo | ||
| 1992 | Andrew Benson | |
| 1991 | Roman Strauss / Mike Church | |
| Donal Davoren | ||
| 1990 | Himself / Hamlet | |
| 1989 | Jimmy Porter | |
| Henry V | ||
| 1988 | Self | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Gordon Evans | ||
| 1987 | James Soon | |
| Guy Pringle | ||
| Rick | ||
| Oswald | ||
| Billy Martin | ||
| Thomas Mendip | ||
| 1985 | D.H. Lawrence | |
| 1984 | Billy Martin | |
| Jack Grant | ||
| 1983 | Billy Martin | |
| Charles Tansley | ||
| 1982 | Student | |
| Self | ||
| Billy Martin | ||
| 1981 | Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited) | |
| 1970 | N/A | |
| 1962 | Self | |
| 1956 | Self | |
| 1953 | Self | |
| N/A | ||
| Charles Dickens (voice) | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Director | |
| 2022 | Director | |
| 2021 | Director | |
| 2020 | Director | |
| 2018 | Director | |
| 2017 | Director | |
| 2016 | Director | |
| 2015 | Director | |
| Director | ||
| 2014 | Director | |
| 2013 | Stage Director | |
| 2011 | Director | |
| 2007 | Director | |
| 2006 | Director | |
| Director | ||
| 2003 | Director | |
| 2000 | Director | |
| 1996 | Director | |
| 1995 | Director | |
| 1994 | Director | |
| 1993 | Director | |
| 1992 | Director | |
| Director | ||
| 1991 | Director | |
| 1989 | Director | |
| 1988 | Stage Director | |
| Director | ||
| Director | ||
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Producer | |
| 2022 | Producer | |
| 2021 | Producer | |
| 2020 | Producer | |
| 2018 | Producer | |
| 2017 | Producer | |
| 2013 | Producer | |
| 2008 | Executive Producer | |
| 2007 | Producer | |
| 2006 | Producer | |
| Producer | ||
| 2000 | Producer | |
| 1994 | Co-Producer | |
| 1993 | Producer | |
| 1992 | Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Writer | |
| 2006 | Screenplay | |
| Adaptation | ||
| Writer | ||
| 2003 | Writer | |
| 2000 | Screenplay | |
| Writer | ||
| 1996 | Screenplay | |
| Writer | ||
| 1995 | Writer | |
| 1993 | Writer | |
| 1989 | Writer | |
| Screenplay | ||
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Acting Double | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
