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Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh

Actor · b. 1960 · Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

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 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).

Movies24

  • Movie8.0

    Mayday

    2026 · 724 votes

  • Movie8.2

    Avengers: Infinity War

    2018 · 32K votes

  • Movie8.0

    Oppenheimer

    2023 · 12K votes

  • Movie7.1

    The Devil Wears Prada 2

    2026 · 2.3K votes

  • Movie7.7
  • Movie7.2

    Tenet

    2020 · 11K votes

  • Movie7.5

    Dunkirk

    2017 · 17K votes

  • Movie6.4

    Death on the Nile

    2022 · 4.4K votes

  • Movie6.6

    A Haunting in Venice

    2023 · 3K votes

  • Movie6.7
  • Movie7.3

    The Road to El Dorado

    2000 · 4.2K votes

  • Movie7.0

    Valkyrie

    2008 · 4.2K votes

  • Movie6.1

    Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

    2014 · 3.2K votes

  • Movie5.3

    Wild Wild West

    1999 · 3.7K votes

  • Movie8.3

    The King of Kings

    2025 · 212 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Chariots of Fire

    1981 · 1.1K votes

  • Movie6.4

    Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

    1994 · 1.4K votes

  • Movie7.2

    The Boat That Rocked

    2009 · 2.3K votes

  • Movie7.0

    Much Ado About Nothing

    1993 · 838 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Conspiracy

    2001 · 506 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie7.3

    Hamlet

    1996 · 528 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Celebrity

    1998 · 520 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Fireheart

    2022 · 295 votes

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  • TV7.5
  • TV6.1
  • TV5.1
  • TV6.3

    The Kelly Clarkson Show

    2019 · 72 votes

  • TV6.8
  • TV4.3

    The View

    1997 · 113 votes

  • TV7.2

    The Graham Norton Show

    2007 · 290 votes

  • TV7.3
  • TV6.0

    Real Time with Bill Maher

    2003 · 248 votes

  • TV4.7

    El hormiguero

    2006 · 40 votes

  • TV7.0

    Golden Globe Awards

    1944 · 20 votes

  • TV5.2

    Leute heute

    1997 · 5 votes

  • TV5.6

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    2003 · 179 votes

  • TV6.6

    Play for Today

    1970 · 10 votes

  • TV7.1

    Hot Ones

    2015 · 78 votes

  • TV
  • TV5.3

    Wogan

    1982 · 7 votes

  • TV6.6

    American Playhouse

    1982 · 8 votes

  • TV6.5

    American Experience

    1988 · 48 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

  • TV7.2

    Omnibus

    1967 · 9 votes

  • TV
  • TV5.1

    Film '72

    1971 · 8 votes

  • TV6.3

    Performance

    1991 · 2 votes