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Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh

Birthday: 1960-12-10 | Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London; in 2015 he succeeded Richard Attenborough as its president. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. He has won three BAFTAs and two Emmy Awards. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2012 Birthday Honours and knighted on 9 November 2012. He was made a Freeman of his native city of Belfast in January 2018. In 2020, he was listed at number 20 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.[4] Branagh has both 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), Love's Labour's Lost (2000), and As You Like It (2006). He was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director for Henry V and for Best Adapted Screenplay for Hamlet. He has also starred in the television series Fortunes of War (1987), Shackleton (2002), and Wallander (2008–2016) and in the films Celebrity (1998), Wild Wild West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), as SS leader Reinhard Heydrich in Conspiracy (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Warm Springs (2005), as Major General Henning von Tresckow in Valkyrie (2008), The Boat That Rocked (2009), and as Sir Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn (2011), Dunkirk (2017), and Tenet (2020). He won an International Emmy Award for Wallander and a Primetime Emmy Award for Conspiracy, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for My Week with Marilyn. Branagh directed and starred in the romantic thriller Dead Again (1991), the horror film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), and the action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014). He directed and starred as Hercule Poirot in the mystery drama adaptations of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Death on the Nile (2022). He also directed such films as Swan Song (1992), which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film, The Magic Flute (2006), Sleuth (2007), the Marvel superhero film Thor (2011), and the live-action adaptation of Disney's Cinderella (2015), He narrated numerous documentary series, including Cold War (1998), Walking with Dinosaurs (1999), The Ballad of Big Al (2001), Walking with Beasts (2001), Walking with Monsters (2005), and World War 1 in Colour (2005).

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2024
Tenet

as    Sator

2022
Death on the Nile

as    Hercule Poirot

2022
Fireheart

as    Shawn Nolan (voice)

2018
All Is True

as    William Shakespeare

2017
Dunkirk

as    Commander Bolton

2017
Murder on the Orient Express

as    Hercule Poirot

2014
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

as    Viktor Cherevin

2013
National Theatre Live: Macbeth

as    Macbeth, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, general in the King's army

2012
Stars In Shorts

as    Mark Snow

2011
My Week with Marilyn

as    Sir Laurence Olivier

2010
Faceless Killers

as    Kurt Wallander

2009
The Boat That Rocked

as    Dormandy

2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

as    Narrator (voice)

2008
Valkyrie

as    Henning von Tresckow

2008
One Step Behind

as    Kurt Wallander

2008
Firewall

as    Kurt Wallander

2008
Wallander

as    Kurt Wallander

2007
Sleuth

as    Other Man on T.V.

2005
Walking with Monsters

as    Narrator (voice)

2004
Five Children and It

as    Uncle Albert

2003
World War 1 in Colour

as    Narrator

2002
Rabbit-Proof Fence

as    A. O. Neville

2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

as    Gilderoy Lockhart

2002
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

as    Peter McGowan