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Kenneth Branagh
Born · December 10, 1960 (64 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Bio
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 (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) 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, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Olivier Award. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2012 Birthday Honours 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' list of Ireland's greatest film actors. He 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 Best Director and won Best Original Screenplay. Branagh directed and starred as Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express (2017), Death on the Nile (2022), and A Haunting in Venice (2023). 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), Rabbit-Proof Fence (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), and the BBC One series Wallander (2008–2016). He received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie and an International Emmy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of SS leader Reinhard Heydrich in the HBO film Conspiracy (2001). He also received a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award nomination for his role as Franklin D. Roosevelt in the television film Warm Springs (2005). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Branagh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
BLUE EYE SAMURAI
Abijah Fowler (voice) · (8 episodes)
8.6
2023
A Haunting in Venice
Hercule Poirot
6.6
2023
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
7.7
2012
My Week with Marilyn
Sir Laurence Olivier
6.7
2011
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
Self
6.8
2010
The Boat That Rocked
Dormandy
7.2
2009
Valkyrie
Henning von Tresckow
6.9
2008
Sleuth
Other Man on T.V.
6.2
2007
Walking with Monsters
Narrator (voice)
7.2
2005
Warm Springs
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
6.8
2005
Five Children and It
Uncle Albert
5.6
2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Gilderoy Lockhart
7.7
2002
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
Peter McGowan
5.9
2002
Rabbit-Proof Fence
A. O. Neville
7.0
2002
Conspiracy
Reinhard Heydrich
7.2
2001
The Road to El Dorado
Miguel (voice)
7.3
2000
Love's Labour's Lost
Berowne
5.5
2000
The Periwig-Maker
Periwig-maker (voice)
7.5
1999
IMAX: Galapagos 3D
Narrator
6.0
1999
Wild Wild West
Dr. Arliss Loveless
5.3
1999
The Theory of Flight
Richard
6.2
1999
Celebrity
Lee Simon
6.0
1998
The Gingerbread Man
Rick Magruder
5.6
1998
Hamlet
Prince Hamlet
7.3
1996
Othello
Iago
6.4
1995
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein
6.4
1994
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Self
8.5
1994
Much Ado About Nothing
Benedick
6.9
1993
Peter's Friends
Andrew Benson
6.5
1992
Dead Again
Roman Strauss / Mike Church
6.4
1991
Henry V
Henry V
7.2
1989
Strange Interlude
Gordon Evans
5.0
1988
A Month in the Country
James Soon
6.4
1987
High Season
Rick
5.3
1987
Chariots of Fire
Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
6.8
1981
Mayday
0.0
The King of Kings
Charles Dickens (voice)
0.0
2025
Oppenheimer
Niels Bohr
8.1
2023
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
7.6
2022
Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain
Self
7.6
2022
This England
Boris Johnson · (6 episodes)
5.7
2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder
Self - Director (archive footage)
7.0
2022
Death on the Nile
Hercule Poirot
6.4
2022
Fireheart
Shawn Nolan (voice)
7.2
2022
Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of 'Tenet'
Self
8.0
2020
Tenet
Sator
7.2
2020
Lost Lives
6.0
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
(1 episode)
6.2
2019
All Is True
William Shakespeare
6.1
2018
Avengers: Infinity War
Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
8.2
2018
Murder on the Orient Express
Hercule Poirot
6.7
2017
Dunkirk
Commander Bolton
7.5
2017
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
Archie Rice
3.5
2016
Mindhorn
Himself
6.1
2016
Upstart Crow
Colin/The Stranger · (1 episode)
7.2
2016
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
Leontes
7.7
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self · (1 episode)
6.6
2015
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
Self
6.9
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · (1 episode)
5.5
2014
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Viktor Cherevin
6.1
2014
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Macbeth, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, general in the King's army
7.0
2013
Stars In Shorts
Mark Snow
0.0
2012
Honest Trailers
Hercules Poirot (archive footage) · (1 episode)
6.4
2012
Discovering Hamlet
Hamlet (archive footage)
7.0
2011
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
Self
7.1
2011
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
Himself
6.8
2011
Prodigal
Mark Snow
5.6
2011
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
Self
8.0
2009
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
Self
6.7
2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Narrator (voice)
7.5
2009
Wallander
Kurt Wallander · (12 episodes)
7.3
2008
Wallander
(1 episode)
7.3
2008
10 Days to War
Colonel Tim Collins · (1 episode)
6.0
2008
Alien Love Triangle
Steven Chesterman
5.5
2008
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
Self
0.0
2007
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Himself
0.0
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Self · (6 episodes)
7.2
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
7.2
2007
El hormiguero
Self · (1 episode)
4.9
2006
As You Like It
self
5.7
2006
Walking with Monsters
Narrator (voice) · (3 episodes)
8.5
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self · (2 episodes)
6.8
2005
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Self
7.4
2004
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
Narrator (voice)
6.0
2004
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self · (1 episode)
5.8
2003
World War 1 in Colour
Narrator · (6 episodes)
6.3
2003
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Himself / Narrator
8.0
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
2003
The Tramp and the Dictator
Narrator (voice)
7.0
2002
Shackleton
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton · (2 episodes)
6.9
2002
The Beasts Within
Narrator (voice)
0.0
2001
Triumph of the Beasts
Narrator (voice)
0.0
2001
Walking with Beasts
Narrator · (6 episodes)
7.7
2001
Schneider's 2nd Stage
Joseph Barnett
0.0
2001
Big Al
Narrator · (2 episodes)
7.6
2000
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Self / Narrator
6.5
2000
The Book That Wrote Itself
Kenneth Branagh
4.0
2000
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
Narrator
6.6
2000
Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies
Himself
6.0
1999
Wild Wild West: Evil Devices
Himself
4.0
1999
Walking with Dinosaurs
Narrator (voice) · (6 episodes)
8.2
1999
It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'
Self
4.9
1999
The Dance of Shiva
Colonel Evans
0.0
1998
Universal Horror
Narrator
7.2
1998
Cold War
(24 episodes)
6.7
1998
The Proposition
Father Michael McKinnon
6.3
1998
Parkinson
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
1998
The View
Self · (1 episode)
4.4
1997
Leute heute
Self · (1 episode)
3.0
1997
Looking for Richard
Self - Interviewee
6.8
1996
Shadow of a Gunman
Donal Davoren
0.0
1995
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
(6 episodes)
8.0
1995
Anne Frank Remembered
Narration (voice)
7.6
1995
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
7.1
1993
Swing Kids
Herr Knopp, Gestapo
6.7
1993
Performance
Donal Davoren · (1 episode)
6.0
1991
Discovering Hamlet
Himself / Hamlet
5.7
1990
Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter
9.0
1989
Thompson
Self · (6 episodes)
1.0
1988
American Experience
Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)
7.5
1988
Thames Wallah
Narrator
0.0
1988
Fortunes of War
Guy Pringle · (7 episodes)
6.4
1987
Ghosts
Oswald
0.0
1987
Lorna
Billy Martin
0.0
1987
The Lady's Not For Burning
Thomas Mendip
0.0
1987
Coming Through
D.H. Lawrence
4.8
1985
A Coming to Terms for Billy
Billy Martin
0.0
1984
The Boy in the Bush
Jack Grant · (4 episodes)
0.0
1984
A Matter of Choice for Billy
Billy Martin
4.0
1983
To the Lighthouse
Charles Tansley
5.4
1983
Easter 2016
Student
0.0
1982
Wogan
Self · (1 episode)
4.5
1982
Too Late to Talk to Billy
Billy Martin
0.0
1982
Play for Today
(3 episodes)
6.1
1970
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · (1 episode)
7.4
1962
Tony Awards
Self · (1 episode)
5.0
1956
The Oscars
Self · (2 episodes)
7.0
1953