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 King2025-04-07 A Haunting in Ve2023-09-13 Oppenheimer2023-07-19 Peter O'Toole: A2022-11-26 Denzel Washingto2022-10-15 Marvel Studios A2022-09-08 Death on the Nil2022-02-09 Fireheart2022-01-16 Looking at the W2020-12-15 Tenet2020-08-22 Lost Lives2019-10-10 All Is True2018-12-21 Avengers: Infini2018-04-25 Murder on the Or2017-11-03 Dunkirk2017-07-19 Mindhorn2016-10-09 Branagh Theatre 2015-11-30 Marvel Studios: 2014-03-18 Jack Ryan: Shado2014-01-15 Stars In Shorts2012-09-28 London 2012 Olym2012-07-27 Discovering Haml2011-11-01 My Week with Mar2011-11-23 Comic-Con Episod2011-09-10 Prodigal2011-09-01 With Great Power2010-07-24 A Night at the M2009-12-20 A Night at the M2009-10-02 1939: Hollywood'2009-07-02 The Boat That Ro2009-04-01 Valkyrie2008-12-25 Alien Love Trian2008-03-08 Sleuth2007-10-12 Stephen Fry: 50 2007-08-11 James Ellis: An 2007-07-02 As You Like It2006-09-01 Walking with Mon2005-11-05 Warm Springs2005-04-30 Five Children an2004-10-15 The Magic Touch 2004-06-11 Cecil B. DeMille2004-04-05 Following the Ra2003-04-15 Harry Potter and2002-11-13 The Tramp and th2002-02-14 Rabbit-Proof Fen2002-02-04 The Beasts Withi2001-11-28 Triumph of the B2001-11-21 Conspiracy2001-05-19 Schneider's 2nd 2001-03-31 Lon Chaney: A Th2000-10-24 How to Kill Your2002-02-22 Love's Labour's 2000-03-31 The Road to El D2000-03-31 Altman on His Ow2000-01-01 Wild Wild West: 1999-11-30 Wild Wild West: 1999-11-30 The Periwig-Make1999-11-13 IMAX: Galapagos 1999-10-27 The Making of Wa2000-03-12 The Book That Wr2000-08-08 Wild Wild West1999-06-30 It's a Whole New1999-06-29 The Dance of Shi1998-12-18 Universal Horror1998-10-08 The Theory of Fl1999-01-22 Celebrity1998-09-07 The Proposition1998-03-26 The Gingerbread 1998-01-23 Hamlet1996-12-25 Looking for Rich1996-10-11 Othello1995-12-15 Shadow of a Gunm1995-10-07 Anne Frank Remem1995-06-08 Mary Shelley's F1994-11-04 It's Alive: The 1994-10-25 Much Ado About N1993-05-07 Swing Kids1993-03-05 Peter's Friends1992-09-18 Dead Again1991-08-23 Discovering Haml1990-01-07 Look Back in Ang1989-12-28 Henry V1989-10-05 Strange Interlud1988-07-13 Thames Wallah1988-02-04 High Season1987-09-01 Ghosts1987-06-14 Lorna1987-06-02 A Month in the C1987-09-27 The Lady's Not F1987-01-01 Coming Through1985-12-27 A Coming to Term1984-02-21 A Matter of Choi1983-05-10 To the Lighthous1983-03-22 Easter 20161982-05-18 Too Late to Talk1982-02-16 Chariots of Fire1981-05-15 Atonement Mayday