Actor
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 Fre ...

Known For
Acting
2025 -- The King of Kings | Charles Dickens (voice)
2023 -- A Haunting in Venice | Hercule Poirot
2023 -- Oppenheimer | Niels Bohr
2022 -- Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba | Self
2022 -- Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain | Self
2022 -- Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder | Self - Director (archive footage)
2022 -- Death on the Nile | Hercule Poirot
2022 -- Fireheart | Shawn Nolan (voice)
2020 -- Tenet | Sator
2019 -- Lost Lives |
2018 -- All Is True | William Shakespeare
2018 -- Avengers: Infinity War | Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
2017 -- Murder on the Orient Express | Hercule Poirot
2017 -- Dunkirk | Commander Bolton
2016 -- Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer | Archie Rice
2016 -- Mindhorn | Himself
2015 -- Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale | Leontes
2014 -- Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe | Self
2014 -- Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit | Viktor Cherevin
2013 -- National Theatre Live: Macbeth | Macbeth, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, general in the King's army
2012 -- Stars In Shorts | Mark Snow
2012 -- London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder | Isambard Kingdom Brunel
2011 -- My Week with Marilyn | Sir Laurence Olivier
2011 -- Discovering Hamlet | Hamlet (archive footage)
2011 -- Thor: From Asgard to Earth | Self
2011 -- Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope | Self
2011 -- Prodigal | Mark Snow
2010 -- With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story | Self
2009 -- A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics | Self
2009 -- A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers | Self
2009 -- 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year | Narrator (voice)
2009 -- The Boat That Rocked | Dormandy
2008 -- Valkyrie | Henning von Tresckow
2008 -- Alien Love Triangle | Steven Chesterman
2007 -- Sleuth | Other Man on T.V.
2007 -- Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out | Self
2007 -- James Ellis: An Actor's Life | Himself
2006 -- As You Like It | self
2005 -- Walking with Monsters | Narrator (voice)
2005 -- Warm Springs | Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2004 -- Five Children and It | Uncle Albert
2004 -- The Magic Touch of Harry Potter | Self
2004 -- Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic | Narrator (voice)
2003 -- Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence | Himself / Narrator
2002 -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Gilderoy Lockhart
2002 -- How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog | Peter McGowan
2002 -- The Tramp and the Dictator | Narrator (voice)
2002 -- Rabbit-Proof Fence | A. O. Neville
2001 -- The Beasts Within | Narrator (voice)
2001 -- Triumph of the Beasts | Narrator (voice)
2001 -- Conspiracy | Reinhard Heydrich
2001 -- Schneider's 2nd Stage | Joseph Barnett
2000 -- Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces | Self / Narrator
2000 -- The Book That Wrote Itself | Kenneth Branagh
2000 -- Love's Labour's Lost | Berowne
2000 -- The Road to El Dorado | Miguel (voice)
2000 -- The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs | Narrator
1999 -- Wild Wild West: Evil Devices | Himself
1999 -- Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies | Himself
1999 -- The Periwig-Maker | Periwig-maker (voice)
1999 -- IMAX: Galapagos 3D | Narrator
1999 -- Wild Wild West | Dr. Arliss Loveless
1999 -- It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West' | Self
1999 -- The Theory of Flight | Richard
1998 -- The Dance of Shiva | Colonel Evans
1998 -- Universal Horror | Narrator
1998 -- Celebrity | Lee Simon
1998 -- The Proposition | Father Michael McKinnon
1998 -- The Gingerbread Man | Rick Magruder
1996 -- Hamlet | Prince Hamlet
1996 -- Looking for Richard | Self - Interviewee
1995 -- Othello | Iago
1995 -- Shadow of a Gunman | Donal Davoren
1995 -- Anne Frank Remembered | Narration (voice)
1994 -- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Victor Frankenstein
1994 -- It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein | Self
1993 -- Much Ado About Nothing | Benedick
1993 -- Swing Kids | Herr Knopp, Gestapo
1992 -- Peter's Friends | Andrew Benson
1991 -- Dead Again | Roman Strauss / Mike Church
1990 -- Discovering Hamlet | Himself / Hamlet
1989 -- Look Back in Anger | Jimmy Porter
1989 -- Henry V | Henry V
1988 -- Strange Interlude | Gordon Evans
1988 -- Thames Wallah | Narrator
1987 -- A Month in the Country | James Soon
1987 -- High Season | Rick
1987 -- Ghosts | Oswald Alving
1987 -- Lorna | Billy Martin
1987 -- The Lady's Not For Burning | Thomas Mendip
1985 -- Coming Through | D.H. Lawrence
1984 -- A Coming to Terms for Billy | Billy Martin
1983 -- A Matter of Choice for Billy | Billy Martin
1983 -- To the Lighthouse | Charles Tansley
1982 -- Easter 2016 | Student
1982 -- Too Late to Talk to Billy | Billy Martin
1981 -- Chariots of Fire | Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
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