Kenneth Branagh

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1960-12-10 (65 years old)

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...

Acting

2000

The Road to El Dorado

as Miguel (voice)

1994

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

as Victor Frankenstein

2008

Valkyrie

as Henning von Tresckow

1996

Hamlet

as Prince Hamlet

1989

Henry V

as Henry V

2007

Sleuth

as Other Man on T.V.

1992

Peter's Friends

as Andrew Benson

1991

Dead Again

as Roman Strauss / Mike Church

1993

1999

Wild Wild West

as Dr. Arliss Loveless

1998

Celebrity

as Lee Simon

1981

Chariots of Fire

as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)

2002

Rabbit-Proof Fence

as A. O. Neville

2001

Conspiracy

as Reinhard Heydrich

1998

The Gingerbread Man

as Rick Magruder

2005

Walking with Monsters

as Narrator (voice)

1987

1995

Othello

as Iago

2004

Five Children and It

as Uncle Albert

2005

Warm Springs

as Franklin Delano Roosevelt

1999

1999

The Periwig-Maker

as Periwig-maker (voice)

2009

2000

2011

My Week with Marilyn

as Sir Laurence Olivier

1999

1988

Strange Interlude

as Gordon Evans

2023

A Haunting in Venice

as Hercule Poirot

1987

1987

Ghosts

as Oswald Alving

1998

Universal Horror

as Narrator

2012

Stars In Shorts

as Mark Snow

2014

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

as Viktor Cherevin

2003

2011

Discovering Hamlet

as Hamlet (archive footage)

2013

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

as Macbeth, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, general in the King's army

1995

Shadow of a Gunman

as Donal Davoren

1989

Look Back in Anger

as Jimmy Porter

1990

Discovering Hamlet

as Himself / Hamlet

1996

Looking for Richard

as Self - Interviewee

2009

1982

Easter 2016

as Student

2000

2008

Alien Love Triangle

as Steven Chesterman

2023

Oppenheimer

as Niels Bohr

1998

The Proposition

as Father Michael McKinnon

2001

Schneider's 2nd Stage

as Joseph Barnett

2006

As You Like It

as Self (voice)

1998

The Dance of Shiva

as Colonel Evans

2025

The King of Kings

as Charles Dickens (voice)

2017

Dunkirk

as Commander Bolton

2004

2017

1985

Coming Through

as D.H. Lawrence

1995

Anne Frank Remembered

as Narration (voice)

2002

The Tramp and the Dictator

as Narrator (voice)

1984

1983

2000

The Book That Wrote Itself

as Kenneth Branagh

2011

Prodigal

as Mark Snow

1983

To the Lighthouse

as Charles Tansley

1987

1993

Swing Kids

as Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)

2016

Mindhorn

as Himself

2022

Death on the Nile

as Hercule Poirot

2001

Triumph of the Beasts

as Narrator (voice)

2001

The Beasts Within

as Narrator (voice)

2018

Avengers: Infinity War

as Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)

2018

All Is True

as William Shakespeare

1982

1987

Lorna

as Billy Martin

2020

Tenet

as Sator

2022

Fireheart

as Shawn Nolan (voice)

1988

Thames Wallah

as Narrator

Production

1996

Hamlet

as Director

2007

Sleuth

as Director

2007

Sleuth

as Producer

2011

Thor

as Director

1989

Henry V

as Director

1991

Dead Again

as Director

2023

1993

1993

1992

Peter's Friends

as Director

1992

Peter's Friends

as Producer

1995

2006

The Magic Flute

as Director

2006

The Magic Flute

as Screenplay

1989

Henry V

as Writer

2006

2006

As You Like It

as Director

2000

1988

2015

Cinderella

as Director

1992

Swan Song

as Director

2013

2021

Belfast

as Producer

2000

2000

2013

2020

Artemis Fowl

as Director

2023

2022

2006

As You Like It

as Producer

1994

2018

All Is True

as Director

2018

All Is True

as Producer

2020

Artemis Fowl

as Producer

2006

The Magic Flute

as Adaptation

2006

The Magic Flute

as Producer

2022

2003

Listening

as Director

2003

Listening

as Writer

2021

Belfast

as Director

2021

Belfast

as Writer

1996

Hamlet

as Adaptation

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