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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1960-12-10
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 3.3
- info Birth Place Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Kenneth Branagh
7.8
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002-11-13
7.3
The Road to El Dorado
2000-03-31
6.5
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994-11-04
7
Valkyrie
2008-12-25
7.4
Hamlet
1996-12-25
8.5
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994-10-25
7.2
Henry V
1989-10-05
6.3
Sleuth
2007-10-12
6.5
Peter's Friends
1992-09-18
6.4
Dead Again
1991-08-23
7
Much Ado About Nothing
1993-05-07
5.4
Wild Wild West
1999-06-30
6
Celebrity
1998-09-07
6.8
Chariots of Fire
1981-05-15
7
Rabbit-Proof Fence
2002-02-04
7.3
Conspiracy
2001-05-19
5.6
The Gingerbread Man
1998-01-23
7.2
Walking with Monsters
2005-11-05
5.9
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
2002-02-22
6.4
A Month in the Country
1987-09-27
6.4
Othello
1995-12-15
5.6
Five Children and It
2004-10-15
6.8
Warm Springs
2005-04-30
6.4
IMAX: Galapagos 3D
1999-10-27
7.5
The Periwig-Maker
1999-11-13
7.3
The Boat That Rocked
2009-04-01
5.6
Love's Labour's Lost
2000-03-31
6.7
My Week with Marilyn
2011-11-23
6.2
The Theory of Flight
1999-01-22
0
Mayday
5
Strange Interlude
1988-07-13
6.8
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
2010-07-24
6.6
A Haunting in Venice
2023-09-13
5.3
High Season
1987-09-01
7.8
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
2012-07-27
0
Ghosts
1987-06-14
7.2
Universal Horror
1998-10-08
0
Stars In Shorts
2012-09-28
6.2
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2014-01-15
8
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
2003-04-15
7.6
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022-11-26
7.6
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004-06-11
7
Discovering Hamlet
2011-11-01
7
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2013-07-19
0
Shadow of a Gunman
1995-10-07
6.5
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
2000-03-12
9
Look Back in Anger
1989-12-28
5.7
Discovering Hamlet
1990-01-07
6.8
Looking for Richard
1996-10-11
7.5
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009-07-02
0
Easter 2016
1982-05-18
6.5
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
2000-10-24
5.5
Alien Love Triangle
2008-03-08
8.1
Oppenheimer
2023-07-19
6.2
The Proposition
1998-03-26
0
Schneider's 2nd Stage
2001-03-31
0
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
2007-08-11
6.9
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
2014-03-18
7.9
Denzel Washington: A Model American
2022-10-15
7
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder
2022-09-08
5.7
As You Like It
2006-09-01
0
The Dance of Shiva
1998-12-18
7.7
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
2015-11-30
8.5
The King of Kings
2025-04-07
7.5
Dunkirk
2017-07-19
6
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
2004-04-05
6.8
Murder on the Orient Express
2017-11-03
4.8
Coming Through
1985-12-27
7.7
Anne Frank Remembered
1995-06-08
6.9
The Tramp and the Dictator
2002-02-14
0
A Coming to Terms for Billy
1984-02-21
4
A Matter of Choice for Billy
1983-05-10
6.9
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
2011-09-10
4
The Book That Wrote Itself
2000-08-08
5.6
Prodigal
2011-09-01
3.5
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
2016-10-27
5.4
To the Lighthouse
1983-03-22
0
The Lady's Not For Burning
1987-01-01
6.7
Swing Kids
1993-03-05
6.1
Mindhorn
2016-10-09
6.5
Death on the Nile
2022-02-09
0
Triumph of the Beasts
2001-11-21
0
The Beasts Within
2001-11-28
8.3
Avengers: Infinity War
2018-04-25
6
All Is True
2018-12-21
6.7
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
2009-10-02
8
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
2009-12-20
0
Too Late to Talk to Billy
1982-02-16
0
Lorna
1987-06-02
0
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
2007-07-02
7.2
Tenet
2020-08-22
6
Lost Lives
2019-10-10
7
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
2011-09-13
4.9
It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'
1999-06-29
6
Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies
1999-11-30
4
Wild Wild West: Evil Devices
1999-11-30
7.2
Fireheart
2022-01-16
0
Thames Wallah
1988-02-04
0
Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’
2020-12-15
0
Altman on His Own Terms
2000-01-01
0
Atonement
7.7
Walking with Beasts
2001-11-15
5.7
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003-09-08
4.5
The View
1997-08-11
7.2
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993-09-13
7.3
Wallander
2008-11-30
7.7
Big Al
2000-12-25
6.4
Play for Today
1970-10-15
6.7
Cold War
1998-09-19
7.1
Shackleton
2002-01-02
6.4
Fortunes of War
1987-10-11
7.1
The Oscars
1953-03-19
1
Thompson
1988-11-10
8
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
1995-10-01
8.6
BLUE EYE SAMURAI
2023-11-03
6
Performance
1991-10-05
6.8
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005-01-03
4.8
El hormiguero
2006-09-24
6.4
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015-09-08
0
The Boy in the Bush
1984-02-09
5.7
This England
2022-09-28
5.1
Tony Awards
1956-04-01
6.1
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003-02-21
5.4
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014-02-25
7.4
American Experience
1988-10-04
6.3
World War 1 in Colour
2003-09-01
8.2
Walking with Dinosaurs
1999-10-04
4.5
Wogan
1982-05-04
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
2007-02-22
6.5
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019-09-09
4.8
Leute heute
1997-07-23
6.5
Honest Trailers
2012-02-13
6.4
10 Days to War
2008-03-10
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
2007-02-22
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962-10-01
8.5
Walking with Monsters
2005-11-05
0
Parkinson
1998-01-09
0
Theatre Night
1985-09-15
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
1944-01-20
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7.2
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994-11-04
7.2
Hamlet
1996-12-25
7.2
Sleuth
2007-10-12
7.2
Sleuth
2007-10-12
7.2
Thor
2011-04-21
7.2
Henry V
1989-10-05
7.2
Dead Again
1991-08-23
7.2
A Haunting in Venice
2023-09-13
7.2
Much Ado About Nothing
1993-05-07
7.2
Much Ado About Nothing
1993-05-07
7.2
Peter's Friends
1992-09-18
7.2
Peter's Friends
1992-09-18
7.2
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995-09-29
7.2
The Magic Flute
2006-09-07
7.2
The Magic Flute
2006-09-07
7.2
Henry V
1989-10-05
7.2
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995-09-29
7.2
As You Like It
2006-09-01
7.2
Love's Labour's Lost
2000-03-31
7.2
Much Ado About Nothing
1993-05-07
7.2
As You Like It
2006-09-01
7.2
Love's Labour's Lost
2000-03-31
7.2
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988-12-30
7.2
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2014-01-15
7.2
Cinderella
2015-03-06
7.2
Swan Song
1992-01-01
7.2
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2013-07-19
7.2
Belfast
2021-11-12
7.2
Love's Labour's Lost
2000-03-31
7.2
Love's Labour's Lost
2000-03-31
7.2
Murder on the Orient Express
2017-11-03
7.2
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016-07-07
7.2
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
2015-11-30
7.2
Murder on the Orient Express
2017-11-03
7.2
Thor: The Dark World
2013-10-30
7.2
Artemis Fowl
2020-05-29
7.2
A Haunting in Venice
2023-09-13
7.2
The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
7.2
The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
7.2
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988-12-30
7.2
Death on the Nile
2022-02-09
7.2
As You Like It
2006-09-01
7.2
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994-11-04
7.2
All Is True
2018-12-21
7.2
All Is True
2018-12-21
7.2
Artemis Fowl
2020-05-29
7.2
The Magic Flute
2006-09-07
7.2
The Magic Flute
2006-09-07
7.2
Death on the Nile
2022-02-09
7.2
Listening
2003-10-03
7.2
Listening
2003-10-03
7.2
Belfast
2021-11-12
7.2
Belfast
2021-11-12
7.2
Hamlet
1996-12-25
7.2
Wallander
2008-11-30
7.2
Walking with Monsters
2005-11-05