9.0
9.0
Look Back in Anger
1989
as Jimmy Porter
Kenneth Branagh
Also known as: Sir Kenneth Charles "Ken" Branagh, Sir Kenneth Branagh, Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh
Acting
Born:December 10, 1960(age 65)
Birthplace:Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Nationality:United Kingdom
Height:5'10" (177 cm)
Education:Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
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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).
Filmography (112 movies)
8.5
8.5
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994
as Self
8.2
8.2
The King of Kings
2025
as Charles Dickens (voice)
8.0
8.0
Oppenheimer
2023
as Niels Bohr
8.0
8.0
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
2009
as Self
8.0
8.0
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
2003
as Himself / Narrator
8.0
8.0
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016
Director
7.9
7.9
Mayday
2026
as Nikolai Ustinov
7.7
7.7
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
as Gilderoy Lockhart
7.7
7.7
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
2012
as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
7.7
7.7
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
as Self
7.7
7.7
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
2015
Director
7.7
7.7
Anne Frank Remembered
1995
as Narration (voice)
7.6
7.6
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
as Self
7.5
7.5
The Periwig-Maker
1999
as Periwig-maker (voice)
7.5
7.5
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
as Narrator (voice)
7.5
7.5
Dunkirk
2017
as Commander Bolton
7.3
7.3
Hamlet
1996
Director
7.3
7.3
Walking with Monsters
2005
as Narrator (voice)
7.3
7.3
Listening
2003
Writer
7.3
7.3
Conspiracy
2001
as Reinhard Heydrich
7.3
7.3
The Road to El Dorado
2000
as Miguel (voice)
7.2
7.2
The Boat That Rocked
2009
as Dormandy
7.2
7.2
Fireheart
2022
as Shawn Nolan (voice)
7.2
7.2
Henry V
1989
Director
7.2
7.2
Tenet
2020
as Sator
7.2
7.2
Denzel Washington: A Model American
2022
as Self
7.1
7.1
Universal Horror
1998
as Narrator
7.1
7.1
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995
Writer
7.1
7.1
Belfast
2021
Writer
7.0
7.0
The Devil Wears Prada 2
2026
as Stuart
7.0
7.0
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2013
as Macbeth
7.0
7.0
The Tramp and the Dictator
2002
as Narrator (voice)
7.0
7.0
Rabbit-Proof Fence
2002
as A. O. Neville
7.0
7.0
Discovering Hamlet
2011
as Hamlet (archive footage)
7.0
7.0
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
2011
as Self
7.0
7.0
Symphony for the Spire
1992
6.9
6.9
Valkyrie
2008
as Henning von Tresckow
6.9
6.9
Much Ado About Nothing
1993
Director
6.9
6.9
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
2014
as Self
6.9
6.9
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988
Director
6.9
6.9
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
2011
as Self
6.8
6.8
Cinderella
2015
Director
6.8
6.8
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
2010
as Self
6.8
6.8
Swan Song
1992
Director
6.8
6.8
Looking for Richard
1996
as Self - Interviewee
6.8
6.8
Thor
2011
Director
6.7
6.7
Murder on the Orient Express
2017
Producer
6.7
6.7
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
2009
as Self
6.7
6.7
My Week with Marilyn
2011
as Sir Laurence Olivier
6.7
6.7
Swing Kids
1993
as Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)
6.6
6.6
Warm Springs
2005
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
6.6
6.6
A Haunting in Venice
2023
Producer
6.6
6.6
Peter's Friends
1992
Producer
6.5
6.5
Thor: The Dark World
2013
Producer
6.5
6.5
IMAX: Galapagos 3D
1999
as Narrator
6.5
6.5
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
2000
as Self / Narrator
6.5
6.5
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
2000
as Narrator
6.4
6.4
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
Director
6.4
6.4
Death on the Nile
2022
Producer
6.4
6.4
Dead Again
1991
Director
6.3
6.3
Othello
1995
as Iago
6.3
6.3
A Month in the Country
1987
as James Moon
6.3
6.3
The Magic Flute
2006
Director
6.3
6.3
Sleuth
2007
Director
6.2
6.2
The Theory of Flight
1999
as Richard
6.1
6.1
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2014
Director
6.1
6.1
The Proposition
1998
as Father Michael McKinnon
6.0
6.0
Lost Lives
2019
6.0
6.0
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
2004
as Narrator (voice)
6.0
6.0
All Is True
2018
Producer
6.0
6.0
Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies
1999
as Himself
6.0
6.0
Celebrity
1998
as Lee Simon
5.9
5.9
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
2002
as Peter McGowan
5.7
5.7
Discovering Hamlet
1990
as Himself / Hamlet
5.7
5.7
As You Like It
2006
Writer
5.6
5.6
Five Children and It
2004
as Uncle Albert
5.6
5.6
Prodigal
2011
as Mark Snow
5.6
5.6
The Gingerbread Man
1998
as Rick Magruder
5.5
5.5
Artemis Fowl
2020
Director
5.5
5.5
Alien Love Triangle
2008
as Steven Chesterman
5.5
5.5
Love's Labour's Lost
2000
Screenplay
5.3
5.3
Wild Wild West
1999
as Dr. Arliss Loveless
5.0
5.0
Strange Interlude
1988
as Gordon Evans
5.0
5.0
High Season
1987
as Rick
5.0
5.0
It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'
1999
as Self
4.8
4.8
To the Lighthouse
1983
as Charles Tansley
4.7
4.7
Stars In Shorts
2012
as Mark Snow
4.0
4.0
A Matter of Choice for Billy
1983
as Billy Martin
4.0
4.0
The Book That Wrote Itself
2000
as Kenneth Branagh
4.0
4.0
Coming Through
1985
as D.H. Lawrence
4.0
4.0
Wild Wild West: Evil Devices
1999
as Himself
3.5
3.5
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
2016
as Archie Rice
1.0
1.0
Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’
2020
as Self
Thames Wallah
1988
as Narrator
Altman on His Own Terms
2000
as Self
Shadow of a Gunman
1995
as Donal Davoren
Easter 2016
1982
as Student
The Beasts Within
2001
as Narrator (voice)
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
2007
as Self
Triumph of the Beasts
2001
as Narrator (voice)
The Lady's Not For Burning
1987
as Thomas Mendip
Too Late to Talk to Billy
1982
as Billy Martin
Lorna
1987
as Billy Martin
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
2007
as Himself
Ghosts
1987
as Oswald Alving
A Coming to Terms for Billy
1984
as Billy Martin
Schneider's 2nd Stage
2001
as Joseph Barnett
The Dance of Shiva
1998
as Colonel Evans
Atonement
TBA
as Michael Reid
The Thomas Crown Affair
2027
The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
TBA
Director
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