Kenneth Branagh
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1960-12-10 (63 years old)
Place of Birth Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Also Known As ケネス・ブラナー, 케네스 브래너, 肯尼思·布拉纳, קנת' בראנה
Kenneth Branagh
Biography
Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London; in 2015 he succeeded Richard Attenborough as its president. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. He has won three BAFTAs and two Emmy Awards. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2012 Birthday Honours and knighted on 9 November 2012. He was made a Freeman of his native city of Belfast in January 2018. In 2020, he was listed at number 20 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Branagh has both 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), Love's Labour's Lost (2000), and As You Like It (2006). He was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director for Henry V and for Best Adapted Screenplay for Hamlet. He has also starred in the television series Fortunes of War (1987), Shackleton (2002), and Wallander (2008–2016) and in the films Celebrity (1998), Wild Wild West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), as SS leader Reinhard Heydrich in Conspiracy (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Warm Springs (2005), as Major General Henning von Tresckow in Valkyrie (2008), The Boat That Rocked (2009), and as Sir Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn (2011), Dunkirk (2017), and Tenet (2020). He won an International Emmy Award for Wallander and a Primetime Emmy Award for Conspiracy, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for My Week with Marilyn. Branagh directed and starred in the romantic thriller Dead Again (1991), the horror film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), and the action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014). He directed and starred as Hercule Poirot in the mystery drama adaptations of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Death on the Nile (2022). He also directed such films as Swan Song (1992), which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film, The Magic Flute (2006), Sleuth (2007), the Marvel superhero film Thor (2011), and the live-action adaptation of Disney's Cinderella (2015), He narrated numerous documentary series, including Cold War (1998), Walking with Dinosaurs (1999), The Ballad of Big Al (2001), Walking with Beasts (2001), Walking with Monsters (2005), and World War 1 in Colour (2005).
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as Charles Dickens (voice)
as Hercule Poirot
as Niels Bohr
as Abijah Fowler (voice)
as Self - Director (archive footage)
as Hercule Poirot
as Shawn Nolan (voice)
as Boris Johnson
as Sator
as William Shakespeare
as Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
as Hercule Poirot
as Commander Bolton
as Archie Rice
as Himself
as Colin/The Stranger
as Leontes
as Viktor Cherevin
as Self
as Macbeth, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, general in the King's army
as Mark Snow
as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
as Hercules Poirot (archive footage)
as Sir Laurence Olivier
as Hamlet (archive footage)
as Self
as Mark Snow
as Narrator (voice)
as Dormandy
as Henning von Tresckow
as Steven Chesterman
as Kurt Wallander
as Colonel Tim Collins
as Other Man on T.V.
as Self
as Himself
as Self
as Self - Guest
as self
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
as Narrator (voice)
as Uncle Albert
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Himself / Narrator
as Self
as Narrator
as Self
as Gilderoy Lockhart
as Peter McGowan
as Narrator (voice)
as A. O. Neville
as Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Heydrich
as Joseph Barnett
as Narrator
as Self / Narrator
as Kenneth Branagh
as Miguel (voice)
as Berowne
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Himself
as Himself
as Periwig-maker (voice)
as Narrator
as Dr. Arliss Loveless
as Richard
as Narrator (voice)
as Colonel Evans
as Narrator
as Lee Simon
as Father Michael McKinnon
as Rick Magruder
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Prince Hamlet
as Self - Interviewee
as Iago
as Donal Davoren
as Narration (voice)
as Victor Frankenstein
as Benedick
as Herr Knopp, Gestapo
as Self - Guest
as Andrew Benson
as Roman Strauss / Mike Church
as Donal Davoren
as Himself / Hamlet
as Jimmy Porter
as Henry V
as Gordon Evans
as Narrator
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as James Soon
as Rick
as Oswald
as Billy Martin
as Thomas Mendip
as Guy Pringle
as D.H. Lawrence
as Billy Martin
as Jack Grant
as Billy Martin
as Charles Tansley
as Student
as Billy Martin
as Self
as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
as Self
as Self
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Producer
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as Executive Producer
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as Co-Producer
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as Producer
Writer
as Screenplay
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as Adaptation
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as Screenplay
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Crew
as Acting Double