Kenneth Branagh
Acting
Born: Dec 10, 1960
From: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Credits: 30 titles
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 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 …
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mayday | Nikolai Ustinov | 2026 | — |
| My Week with Marilyn | Sir Laurence Olivier | 2011 | 6.677 |
| The Boat That Rocked | Dormandy | 2009 | 7.224 |
| Valkyrie | Henning von Tresckow | 2008 | 6.954 |
| Sleuth | Other Man on T.V. | 2007 | 6.279 |
| Walking with Monsters | Narrator (voice) | 2005 | 7.227 |
| Warm Springs | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 2005 | 6.635 |
| Five Children and It | Uncle Albert | 2004 | 5.599 |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Gilderoy Lockhart | 2002 | 7.702 |
| Rabbit-Proof Fence | A. O. Neville | 2002 | 6.977 |
| How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog | Peter McGowan | 2002 | 5.949 |
| Conspiracy | Reinhard Heydrich | 2001 | 7.27 |
| The Road to El Dorado | Miguel (voice) | 2000 | 7.257 |
| Love's Labour's Lost | Berowne | 2000 | 5.539 |
| Wild Wild West | Dr. Arliss Loveless | 1999 | 5.32 |
| IMAX: Galapagos 3D | Narrator | 1999 | 6.571 |
| The Periwig-Maker | Periwig-maker (voice) | 1999 | 7.647 |
| The Theory of Flight | Richard | 1999 | 6.278 |
| Celebrity | Lee Simon | 1998 | 5.995 |
| The Gingerbread Man | Rick Magruder | 1998 | 5.6 |
| Hamlet | Prince Hamlet | 1996 | 7.341 |
| Othello | Iago | 1995 | 6.359 |
| Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Victor Frankenstein | 1994 | 6.446 |
| It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein | Self | 1994 | 8.8 |
| Much Ado About Nothing | Benedick | 1993 | 6.946 |
| Peter's Friends | Andrew Benson | 1992 | 6.607 |
| Dead Again | Roman Strauss / Mike Church | 1991 | 6.4 |
| Henry V | Henry V | 1989 | 7.134 |
| A Month in the Country | James Moon | 1987 | 6.472 |
| Chariots of Fire | Cambridge Student at Society Day … | 1981 | 6.8 |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1960 |
| From | Belfast, Northern Ireland, … |