Kenneth Branagh
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK — Dec 10 1960
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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…
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Kenneth Branagh's Credits
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American Experience
Narrator (voice)
Play for Today
Avengers: Infinity War
Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
Dunkirk
Commander Bolton
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Gilderoy Lockhart
The Oscars
Self
Oppenheimer
Niels Bohr
Swan Song
Directing
Performance
Donal Davoren
Thor
Directing
Cinderella
Directing
The Devil Wears Prada 2
Thor: The Dark World
Production
Tenet
Sator
Wallander
Kurt Wallander
BLUE EYE SAMURAI
Abijah Fowler (voice)
The American Revolution
(voice)
The King of Kings
Charles Dickens (voice)
Death on the Nile
Hercule Poirot
Shackleton
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
Murder on the Orient Express
Hercule Poirot
The Road to El Dorado
Miguel (voice)
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Viktor Cherevin
Wild Wild West
Dr. Arliss Loveless
Valkyrie
Henning von Tresckow
Fortunes of War
Guy Pringle
Theatre Night
Oswald Alving
Hamlet
Prince Hamlet
10 Days to War
Colonel Tim Collins
Chariots of Fire
Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
Belfast
Production
Cold War
Artemis Fowl
Directing
Conspiracy
Reinhard Heydrich
A Haunting in Venice
Hercule Poirot
My Week with Marilyn
Sir Laurence Olivier
Walking with Beasts
Narrator
Henry V
Henry V
This England
Boris Johnson
Fireheart
Shawn Nolan (voice)
Thompson
Self
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
Self
The Boat That Rocked
Dormandy
Much Ado About Nothing
Benedick
Mayday
Nikolai Ustinov
Swing Kids
Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)
Five Children and It
Uncle Albert
Sleuth
Other Man on T.V.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein
All Is True
William Shakespeare
Celebrity
Lee Simon
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Mindhorn
Himself
Looking for Richard
Self - Interviewee
Rabbit-Proof Fence
A. O. Neville
Othello
Iago
Walking with Dinosaurs
Self - Narrator (voice)
As You Like It
Self (voice)
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
Self
The Gingerbread Man
Rick Magruder
Peter's Friends
Andrew Benson
Love's Labour's Lost
Berowne
Walking with Monsters
Narrator (voice)
Discovering Hamlet
Hamlet (archive footage)
Dead Again
Roman Strauss / Mike Church
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Self
The Thomas Crown Affair
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Narrator (voice)
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe
Self
Stars in Shorts
Mark Snow
The Proposition
Father Michael McKinnon
High Season
Rick
Denzel Washington: A Model American
Self
The Boy in the Bush
Jack Grant
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
Peter McGowan
Big Al
Narrator
Warm Springs
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
Self
Strange Interlude
Gordon Evans
Prodigal
Mark Snow
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
Self
The Magic Flute
Directing
Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter
In the Bleak Midwinter
Directing
Discovering Hamlet
Himself / Hamlet
To the Lighthouse
Charles Tansley
Lorna
Billy Martin
A Month in the Country
James Moon
Easter 2016
Student
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
Narrator (voice)
Listening
Directing
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Directing
Altman on His Own Terms
Self
The Theory of Flight
Richard
Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’
Self
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Self
The Tramp and the Dictator
Narrator (voice)
Anne Frank Remembered
Narration (voice)
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
Self
Coming Through
D.H. Lawrence
Lost Lives
It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'
Self
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
Self
Alien Love Triangle
Steven Chesterman
World War 1 in Colour
Narrator
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Macbeth
The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
Directing
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
Directing
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Himself / Narrator
Ghosts
Oswald Alving
The Book That Wrote Itself
Kenneth Branagh
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
Leontes
Universal Horror
Narrator
Lon Chaney: A thousand faces
Self / Narrator
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Himself
The Dance of Shiva
Colonel Evans
Walking with Monsters
Narrator (voice)
Wild Wild West: Evil Devices
Himself
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
Self
The Goebbels Experiment
Narrator (voice)
Shadow of a Gunman
Donal Davoren
The Periwig-Maker
Periwig-maker (voice)
Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies
Himself
Tea with Judi Dench
Self
Atonement
Michael Reid
IMAX: Galapagos 3D
Narrator
The Lady's Not For Burning
Thomas Mendip
A Coming to Terms for Billy
Billy Martin
Schneider's 2nd Stage
Joseph Barnett
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
Archie Rice
Too Late to Talk to Billy
Billy Martin
The Beasts Within
Narrator (voice)
Thames Wallah
Narrator
The Goblin
(voice)
A Matter of Choice for Billy
Billy Martin
Symphony for the Spire
Triumph of the Beasts
Narrator (voice)
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
Narrator