Kenneth Branagh
1960-12-10 ( 64 years old ) in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

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.

Movies

The King of Kings 2025-04-07
A Haunting in Venice 2023-09-13
Oppenheimer 2023-07-19
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba 2022-11-26
Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain 2022-10-15
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder 2022-09-08
Death on the Nile 2022-02-09
Fireheart 2022-01-16
Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’ 2020-12-15
Tenet 2020-08-22
Lost Lives 2019-10-10
All Is True 2018-12-21
Avengers: Infinity War 2018-04-25
Murder on the Orient Express 2017-11-03
Dunkirk 2017-07-19
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer 2016-10-27
Mindhorn 2016-10-09
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale 2015-11-30
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe 2014-03-18
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit 2014-01-15
National Theatre Live: Macbeth 2013-07-19
Stars In Shorts 2012-09-28
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder 2012-07-27
My Week with Marilyn 2011-11-23
Discovering Hamlet 2011-11-01
Thor: From Asgard to Earth 2011-09-13
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope 2011-09-10
Prodigal 2011-09-01
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story 2010-07-24
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics 2009-12-20
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers 2009-10-02
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year 2009-07-02
The Boat That Rocked 2009-04-01
Valkyrie 2008-12-25
Alien Love Triangle 2008-03-08
Sleuth 2007-10-12
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out 2007-08-11
James Ellis: An Actor's Life 2007-07-02
As You Like It 2006-09-01
Walking with Monsters 2005-11-05
Warm Springs 2005-04-30
Five Children and It 2004-10-15
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter 2004-06-11
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic 2004-04-05
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence 2003-04-15
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002-11-13
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog 2002-02-22
The Tramp and the Dictator 2002-02-14
Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002-02-04
The Beasts Within 2001-11-28
Triumph of the Beasts 2001-11-21
Conspiracy 2001-05-19
Schneider's 2nd Stage 2001-03-31
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces 2000-10-24
The Book That Wrote Itself 2000-08-08
The Road to El Dorado 2000-03-31
Love's Labour's Lost 2000-03-31
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs 2000-03-12
Altman on His Own Terms 2000-01-01
Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies 1999-11-30
Wild Wild West: Evil Devices 1999-11-30
The Periwig-Maker 1999-11-13
IMAX: Galapagos 3D 1999-10-27
Wild Wild West 1999-06-30
It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West' 1999-06-29
The Theory of Flight 1999-01-22
The Dance of Shiva 1998-12-18
Universal Horror 1998-10-08
Celebrity 1998-09-07
The Proposition 1998-03-26
The Gingerbread Man 1998-01-23
Hamlet 1996-12-25
Looking for Richard 1996-10-11
Othello 1995-12-15
Shadow of a Gunman 1995-10-07
Anne Frank Remembered 1995-06-08
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 1994-11-04
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein 1994-10-25
Much Ado About Nothing 1993-05-07
Swing Kids 1993-03-05
Peter's Friends 1992-09-18
Dead Again 1991-08-23
Discovering Hamlet 1990-01-07
Look Back in Anger 1989-12-28
Henry V 1989-10-05
Strange Interlude 1988-07-13
Thames Wallah 1988-02-04
A Month in the Country 1987-09-27
High Season 1987-09-01
Ghosts 1987-06-14
Lorna 1987-06-02
The Lady's Not For Burning 1987-01-01
Coming Through 1985-12-27
A Coming to Terms for Billy 1984-02-21
A Matter of Choice for Billy 1983-05-10
To the Lighthouse 1983-03-22
Easter 2016 1982-05-18
Too Late to Talk to Billy 1982-02-16
Chariots of Fire 1981-05-15
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