Kenneth Branagh [11181]
Gender: Male
Popularity: 3.4362
Birthplace: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Birthday: 1960-12-10
Age: 64 years
Movies: 98
Links: Homepage, IMDB
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 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Branagh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

The King of King
2025-04-07
A Haunting in Ve
2023-09-13
Oppenheimer
2023-07-19
Peter O'Toole: A
2022-11-26
Denzel Washingto
2022-10-15
Marvel Studios A
2022-09-08
Death on the Nil
2022-02-09
Fireheart
2022-01-16
Looking at the W
2020-12-15
Tenet
2020-08-22
Lost Lives
2019-10-10
All Is True
2018-12-21
Avengers: Infini
2018-04-25
Murder on the Or
2017-11-03
Dunkirk
2017-07-19
Mindhorn
2016-10-09
Branagh Theatre
2015-11-30
Marvel Studios:
2014-03-18
Jack Ryan: Shado
2014-01-15
Stars In Shorts
2012-09-28
London 2012 Olym
2012-07-27
Discovering Haml
2011-11-01
My Week with Mar
2011-11-23
Comic-Con Episod
2011-09-10
Prodigal
2011-09-01
With Great Power
2010-07-24
A Night at the M
2009-12-20
A Night at the M
2009-10-02
1939: Hollywood'
2009-07-02
The Boat That Ro
2009-04-01
Valkyrie
2008-12-25
Alien Love Trian
2008-03-08
Sleuth
2007-10-12
Stephen Fry: 50
2007-08-11
James Ellis: An
2007-07-02
As You Like It
2006-09-01
Walking with Mon
2005-11-05
Warm Springs
2005-04-30
Five Children an
2004-10-15
The Magic Touch
2004-06-11
Cecil B. DeMille
2004-04-05
Following the Ra
2003-04-15
Harry Potter and
2002-11-13
The Tramp and th
2002-02-14
Rabbit-Proof Fen
2002-02-04
The Beasts Withi
2001-11-28
Triumph of the B
2001-11-21
Conspiracy
2001-05-19
Schneider's 2nd
2001-03-31
Lon Chaney: A Th
2000-10-24
How to Kill Your
2002-02-22
Love's Labour's
2000-03-31
The Road to El D
2000-03-31
Altman on His Ow
2000-01-01
Wild Wild West:
1999-11-30
Wild Wild West:
1999-11-30
The Periwig-Make
1999-11-13
IMAX: Galapagos
1999-10-27
The Making of Wa
2000-03-12
The Book That Wr
2000-08-08
Wild Wild West
1999-06-30
It's a Whole New
1999-06-29
The Dance of Shi
1998-12-18
Universal Horror
1998-10-08
The Theory of Fl
1999-01-22
Celebrity
1998-09-07
The Proposition
1998-03-26
The Gingerbread
1998-01-23
Hamlet
1996-12-25
Looking for Rich
1996-10-11
Othello
1995-12-15
Shadow of a Gunm
1995-10-07
Anne Frank Remem
1995-06-08
Mary Shelley's F
1994-11-04
It's Alive: The
1994-10-25
Much Ado About N
1993-05-07
Swing Kids
1993-03-05
Peter's Friends
1992-09-18
Dead Again
1991-08-23
Discovering Haml
1990-01-07
Look Back in Ang
1989-12-28
Henry V
1989-10-05
Strange Interlud
1988-07-13
Thames Wallah
1988-02-04
High Season
1987-09-01
Ghosts
1987-06-14
Lorna
1987-06-02
A Month in the C
1987-09-27
The Lady's Not F
1987-01-01
Coming Through
1985-12-27
A Coming to Term
1984-02-21
A Matter of Choi
1983-05-10
To the Lighthous
1983-03-22
Easter 2016
1982-05-18
Too Late to Talk
1982-02-16
Chariots of Fire
1981-05-15
Atonement
Mayday