Kenneth Branagh
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1960-12-10 (64 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 (/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.
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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 Himself
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
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as Narrator (voice)
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
as Narrator (voice)
as Uncle Albert
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Himself / Narrator
as Self
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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 Reinhard Heydrich
as Joseph Barnett
as Narrator
as Self / Narrator
as Kenneth Branagh
as Miguel (voice)
as Berowne
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as Himself
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as Periwig-maker (voice)
as Narrator
as Dr. Arliss Loveless
as Richard
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as Colonel Evans
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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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Writer
as Screenplay
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as Adaptation
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as Screenplay
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Crew
as Acting Double