Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK — Dec 10 1960

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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Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)

Commander Bolton

Gilderoy Lockhart

Self

Niels Bohr
Directing

Donal Davoren

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Directing


Production

Sator

Kurt Wallander

Abijah Fowler (voice)

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Charles Dickens (voice)

Hercule Poirot

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

Hercule Poirot

Miguel (voice)

Viktor Cherevin

Dr. Arliss Loveless

Henning von Tresckow

Guy Pringle

Oswald Alving

Prince Hamlet

Colonel Tim Collins

Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)

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Reinhard Heydrich

Hercule Poirot

Sir Laurence Olivier

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Henry V

Boris Johnson

Shawn Nolan (voice)
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Self

Dormandy

Benedick

Nikolai Ustinov

Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)

Uncle Albert

Other Man on T.V.

Victor Frankenstein

William Shakespeare

Lee Simon

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Himself

Self - Interviewee

A. O. Neville

Iago

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Self (voice)

Self

Rick Magruder

Andrew Benson

Berowne

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Hamlet (archive footage)

Roman Strauss / Mike Church

Self

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Self

Mark Snow

Father Michael McKinnon

Rick

Self

Jack Grant

Peter McGowan

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Self

Self
Gordon Evans

Mark Snow

Self

Directing

Jimmy Porter

Directing

Himself / Hamlet

Charles Tansley

Billy Martin

James Moon

Student


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Directing

Self

Richard

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Self

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Narration (voice)

Self

D.H. Lawrence


Self

Self

Steven Chesterman

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Macbeth
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Directing
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Oswald Alving

Kenneth Branagh

Leontes

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Self / Narrator

Himself

Colonel Evans

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Himself

Self

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Donal Davoren

Periwig-maker (voice)
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Self
Michael Reid

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Thomas Mendip

Billy Martin
Joseph Barnett

Archie Rice

Billy Martin

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Billy Martin


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