Kenneth Branagh

ActorDirectorProducerCrewWriter Dec 10 (age 65) Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK 1962–2027 (65 year career)

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Biography

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 T…

Known For

Film

Avengers: Infinity War

Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)

Film

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Gilderoy Lockhart

Film

Oppenheimer

Niels Bohr

Film

Dunkirk

Commander Bolton

Film

Thor

Director

Film

Tenet

Sator

Film

Thor: The Dark World

Producer

Film

Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot

Filmography

Acting (151)

Movies (111)

The Thomas Crown Affair

2027 Upcoming

Mar 4

The Devil Wears Prada 2

2026 Upcoming

Apr 29

Mayday

2026 Upcoming

as Nikolai Ustinov

Sep 3

The King of Kings

2025

as Charles Dickens (voice)

8.3

Tea with Judi Dench

2025

as Self

Oppenheimer

as Niels Bohr

A Haunting in Venice

as Hercule Poirot

Murder Death & Haunting

as Self

Death on the Nile

as Hercule Poirot

Fireheart

as Shawn Nolan (voice)

7.2

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

2022

as Self

7.8

Denzel Washington: A Model American

as Self

Design on the Nile

as Self

Agatha Christie: Travel Can Be Murder

2022

as Self

6.0

"Death on the Nile": Novel to Film

as Self

Tenet

as Sator

Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’

as Self

Lost Lives

Avengers: Infinity War

2018

as Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)

8.2

All Is True

2018

as William Shakespeare

6.0

Dunkirk

2017

as Commander Bolton

7.5

Murder on the Orient Express

2017

as Hercule Poirot

6.7

Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer

as Archie Rice

Mindhorn

as Himself

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

2015

as Leontes

7.7

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

2014

as Viktor Cherevin

6.1

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe

2014

as Self

6.9

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

as Macbeth

Stars in Shorts

as Mark Snow

Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe

2012

as Self

London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder

2012

as Isambard Kingdom Brunel

7.8

My Week with Marilyn

2011

as Sir Laurence Olivier

6.7

Prodigal

2011

as Mark Snow

5.6

Thor: From Asgard to Earth

2011

as Self

7.0

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope

2011

as Self

6.9

Discovering Hamlet

2011

as Hamlet (archive footage)

7.0

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

as Self

The Boat That Rocked

as Dormandy

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

2009

as Narrator (voice)

7.5

A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers

2009

as Self

6.7

A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics

2009

as Self

8.0

Valkyrie

2008

as Henning von Tresckow

Alien Love Triangle

as Steven Chesterman

Sleuth

as Other Man on T.V.

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

2007

as Self

James Ellis: An Actor's Life

2007

as Himself

As You Like It

2006

as Self (voice)

5.7

Warm Springs

2005

as Franklin Delano Roosevelt

6.6

Walking with Monsters

2005

as Narrator (voice)

7.2

The Goebbels Experiment

as Narrator (voice)

Five Children and It

as Uncle Albert

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

2004

as Self

7.7

Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic

2004

as Narrator (voice)

6.0

Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence

2003

as Himself / Narrator

8.0

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

as Gilderoy Lockhart

Rabbit-Proof Fence

as A. O. Neville

The Tramp and the Dictator

2002

as Narrator (voice)

7.0

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

as Peter McGowan

Conspiracy

as Reinhard Heydrich

Triumph of the Beasts

2001

as Narrator (voice)

The Beasts Within

2001

as Narrator (voice)

Schneider's 2nd Stage

2001

as Joseph Barnett

The Road to El Dorado

2000

as Miguel (voice)

7.3

The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs

as Narrator

Love's Labour's Lost

as Berowne

Lon Chaney: A thousand faces

2000

as Self / Narrator

6.5

The Book That Wrote Itself

2000

as Kenneth Branagh

4.0

Altman on His Own Terms

2000

as Self

Wild Wild West

1999

as Dr. Arliss Loveless

5.3

Wild Wild West: Evil Devices

1999

as Himself

4.0

The Periwig-Maker

1999

as Periwig-maker (voice)

The Theory of Flight

as Richard

IMAX: Galapagos 3D

as Narrator

Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies

1999

as Himself

6.0

It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'

as Self

Celebrity

as Lee Simon

The Gingerbread Man

as Rick Magruder

The Proposition

as Father Michael McKinnon

Universal Horror

as Narrator

The Dance of Shiva

as Colonel Evans

Hamlet

1996

as Prince Hamlet

7.3

Looking for Richard

1996

as Self - Interviewee

6.8

Othello

1995

as Iago

6.3

Anne Frank Remembered

1995

as Narration (voice)

7.6

Shadow of a Gunman

1995

as Donal Davoren

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

1994

as Victor Frankenstein

6.4

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

1994

as Self

8.5

Much Ado About Nothing

1993

as Benedick

6.9

Swing Kids

1993

as Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)

6.7

Peter's Friends

1992

as Andrew Benson

6.6

Symphony for the Spire

1992

7.0

Dead Again

1991

as Roman Strauss / Mike Church

Discovering Hamlet

as Himself / Hamlet

Henry V

as Henry V

Look Back in Anger

as Jimmy Porter

Strange Interlude

as Gordon Evans

Thames Wallah

as Narrator

The Lady's Not For Burning

1987

as Thomas Mendip

Lorna

1987

as Billy Martin

High Season

1987

as Rick

4.9

Ghosts

1987

as Oswald Alving

A Month in the Country

as James Moon

Coming Through

as D.H. Lawrence

A Coming to Terms for Billy

1984

as Billy Martin

To the Lighthouse

1983

as Charles Tansley

4.8

A Matter of Choice for Billy

1983

as Billy Martin

4.0

Easter 2016

1982

as Student

Too Late to Talk to Billy

1982

as Billy Martin

Chariots of Fire

1981

as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)

6.8

Atonement

as Michael Reid

The Goblin

as (voice)

Television (40)

The American Revolution

2025

as (voice)

5.5

BLUE EYE SAMURAI

2023

as Abijah Fowler (voice)

This England

as Boris Johnson

Remembers…

as Self

The Kelly Clarkson Show

2019

as Self

6.4

Upstart Crow

2016

as Colin/The Stranger

7.1

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

as Self

6.2

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self

Wallander

as Kurt Wallander

Wallander

10 Days to War

as Colonel Tim Collins

6.4

The Graham Norton Show

as Self

El hormiguero

as Self

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

2005

as Self

6.7

Walking with Monsters

2005

as Narrator (voice)

8.6

Real Time with Bill Maher

2003

as Self

6.0

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

2003

as Self

5.6

World War 1 in Colour

2003

as Narrator

6.5

Shackleton

2002

as Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

Walking with Beasts

as Narrator

Big Al

as Narrator

Walking with Dinosaurs

1999

as Self - Narrator (voice)

8.2

Parkinson

1998

as Self

Cold War

The View

as Self

Leute heute

as Self

Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood

1995

8.0

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

Performance

as Donal Davoren

American Experience

as Narrator (voice)

Thompson

as Self

Fortunes of War

as Guy Pringle

Theatre Night

as Oswald Alving

The Boy in the Bush

1984

as Jack Grant

Wogan

as Self

Play for Today

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

Tony Awards

as Self

The Oscars

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Crew (61)

Movies (59)

A Haunting in Venice

Director

A Haunting in Venice

Producer

Murder Death & Haunting

Thanks

Death on the Nile

Director

Death on the Nile

Producer

Design on the Nile

Thanks

Agatha Christie: Travel Can Be Murder

Thanks

Branagh/Poirot

Thanks

"Death on the Nile": Novel to Film

Thanks

Belfast

Director

Belfast

Producer

Belfast

Writer

Artemis Fowl

Director

Artemis Fowl

Producer

All Is True

Director

All Is True

Producer

Murder on the Orient Express

2017

Director

6.7

Murder on the Orient Express

2017

Producer

6.7

Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet

Director

Cinderella

Director

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

2015

Director

7.7

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Director

Thor: The Dark World

Producer

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

Stage Director

Thor

Director

Sleuth

Director

Sleuth

Producer

The Magic Flute

Adaptation

The Magic Flute

Director

The Magic Flute

Producer

The Magic Flute

Screenplay

As You Like It

Director

As You Like It

Producer

As You Like It

Writer

Listening

Director

Listening

Writer

Love's Labour's Lost

Director

Love's Labour's Lost

Producer

Love's Labour's Lost

Screenplay

Love's Labour's Lost

Writer

Hamlet

Adaptation

Hamlet

Director

In the Bleak Midwinter

1995

Director

7.1

In the Bleak Midwinter

1995

Writer

7.1

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

1994

Co-Producer

6.4

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

1994

Director

6.4

Much Ado About Nothing

1993

Director

6.9

Much Ado About Nothing

1993

Producer

6.9

Much Ado About Nothing

Writer

Peter's Friends

Director

Peter's Friends

Producer

Swan Song

Director

Dead Again

Director

Henry V

Director

Henry V

Writer

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

1988

Director

6.9

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

1988

Stage Director

6.9

The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde

Director

The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde

Screenplay

Television (2)

Wallander

2008

Executive Producer

7.3

Walking with Monsters

2005

Acting Double

8.6