Kenneth Branagh
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1960-12-10
Place of Birth
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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 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.
Also Known For
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Nov 13, 2002
The Road to El Dorado
Mar 31, 2000
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Nov 04, 1994
Valkyrie
Dec 25, 2008
Hamlet
Dec 25, 1996
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Oct 25, 1994
Henry V
Oct 05, 1989
Sleuth
Oct 12, 2007
Peter's Friends
Sep 18, 1992
Dead Again
Aug 23, 1991
Much Ado About Nothing
May 07, 1993
Wild Wild West
Jun 30, 1999
Celebrity
Sep 07, 1998
Chariots of Fire
May 15, 1981
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Feb 04, 2002
Conspiracy
May 19, 2001
The Gingerbread Man
Jan 23, 1998
Walking with Monsters
Nov 05, 2005
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
Feb 22, 2002
A Month in the Country
Sep 27, 1987
Othello
Dec 15, 1995
Five Children and It
Oct 15, 2004
Warm Springs
Apr 30, 2005
IMAX: Galapagos 3D
Oct 27, 1999
The Periwig-Maker
Nov 13, 1999
The Boat That Rocked
Apr 01, 2009
Love's Labour's Lost
Mar 31, 2000
My Week with Marilyn
Nov 23, 2011
The Theory of Flight
Jan 22, 1999
Mayday
Strange Interlude
Jul 13, 1988
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
Jul 24, 2010
A Haunting in Venice
Sep 13, 2023
High Season
Sep 01, 1987
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
Jul 27, 2012
Ghosts
Jun 14, 1987
Universal Horror
Oct 08, 1998
Stars In Shorts
Sep 28, 2012
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Jan 15, 2014
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Apr 15, 2003
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Nov 26, 2022
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Jun 11, 2004
Discovering Hamlet
Nov 01, 2011
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Jul 19, 2013
Shadow of a Gunman
Oct 07, 1995
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
Mar 12, 2000
Look Back in Anger
Dec 28, 1989
Discovering Hamlet
Jan 07, 1990
Looking for Richard
Oct 11, 1996
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Jul 02, 2009
Easter 2016
May 18, 1982
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Oct 24, 2000
Alien Love Triangle
Mar 08, 2008
Oppenheimer
Jul 19, 2023
The Proposition
Mar 26, 1998
Schneider's 2nd Stage
Mar 31, 2001
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
Aug 11, 2007
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
Mar 18, 2014
Denzel Washington: A Model American
Oct 15, 2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder
Sep 08, 2022
As You Like It
Sep 01, 2006
The Dance of Shiva
Dec 18, 1998
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
Nov 30, 2015
The King of Kings
Apr 07, 2025
Dunkirk
Jul 19, 2017
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
Apr 05, 2004
Murder on the Orient Express
Nov 03, 2017
Coming Through
Dec 27, 1985
Anne Frank Remembered
Jun 08, 1995
The Tramp and the Dictator
Feb 14, 2002
A Coming to Terms for Billy
Feb 21, 1984
A Matter of Choice for Billy
May 10, 1983
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
Sep 10, 2011
The Book That Wrote Itself
Aug 08, 2000
Prodigal
Sep 01, 2011
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
Oct 27, 2016
To the Lighthouse
Mar 22, 1983
The Lady's Not For Burning
Jan 01, 1987
Swing Kids
Mar 05, 1993
Mindhorn
Oct 09, 2016
Death on the Nile
Feb 09, 2022
The Beasts Within
Nov 28, 2001
Triumph of the Beasts
Nov 21, 2001
Avengers: Infinity War
Apr 25, 2018
All Is True
Dec 21, 2018
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
Oct 02, 2009
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
Dec 20, 2009
Too Late to Talk to Billy
Feb 16, 1982
Lorna
Jun 02, 1987
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Jul 02, 2007
Tenet
Aug 22, 2020
Lost Lives
Oct 10, 2019
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
Sep 13, 2011
It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'
Jun 29, 1999
Wild Wild West: Evil Devices
Nov 30, 1999
Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies
Nov 30, 1999
Fireheart
Jan 16, 2022
Thames Wallah
Feb 04, 1988
Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’
Dec 15, 2020
Altman on His Own Terms
Jan 01, 2000
Atonement
The Devil Wears Prada 2
Apr 29, 2026
Walking with Beasts
Nov 15, 2001
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Sep 08, 2003
The View
Aug 11, 1997
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sep 13, 1993
Wallander
Nov 30, 2008
Big Al
Dec 25, 2000
Play for Today
Oct 15, 1970
Cold War
Sep 19, 1998
Shackleton
Jan 02, 2002
Fortunes of War
Oct 11, 1987
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
Thompson
Nov 10, 1988
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
Oct 01, 1995
BLUE EYE SAMURAI
Nov 03, 2023
Performance
Oct 05, 1991
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Jan 03, 2005
El hormiguero
Sep 24, 2006
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
The Boy in the Bush
Feb 09, 1984
This England
Sep 28, 2022
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Real Time with Bill Maher
Feb 21, 2003
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
American Experience
Oct 04, 1988
World War 1 in Colour
Sep 01, 2003
Walking with Dinosaurs
Oct 04, 1999
Wogan
May 04, 1982
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Sep 09, 2019
Leute heute
Jul 23, 1997
Honest Trailers
Feb 13, 2012
10 Days to War
Mar 10, 2008
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Oct 01, 1962
Walking with Monsters
Nov 05, 2005
Parkinson
Jan 09, 1998
Theatre Night
Sep 15, 1985
