Kenneth Branagh
Country: United Kingdom
Gender: M
Birthday: 1960-12-10
Biography
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).
Actor:
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1. A Month in the Country (1987), film...James Moon
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2. High Season (1987), film
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3. Fortunes of War (1987), series
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4. Henry V (1989), film...King Henry V
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5. Discovering Hamlet (1990), film...Self / Hamlet
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6. Dead Again (1991), film...Roman Strauss / Mike Church
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7. Peter's Friends (1992), film...Andrew Benson
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8. Much Ado About Nothing (1993), film...Benedick
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9. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), film...Victor
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10. Othello (1995), film...Iago
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11. Hamlet (1996), film...Hamlet
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12. The Gingerbread Man (1998), film...Rick Magruder
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13. Theory Of Flight (1998), film...Richard
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14. Celebrity (1998), film...Lee Simon
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15. The Proposition (1998), film...Father Michael McKinnon
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16. Wild Wild West (1999), film...Dr. Arliss Loveless
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17. Walking with Dinosaurs (1999), series...Self - Narrator UK
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18. Love's Labour's Lost (2000), film...Berowne
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19. How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000), film...Peter McGowen
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20. Conspiracy (2001), film...Heydrich
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21. Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), film...A.O. Neville
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...Gilderoy Lockhart
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23. Five Children and It (2004), film...Uncle Albert
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24. Springs (2005), film...Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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25. Sleuth (2007), film...Other Man on T.V.
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26. Valkyrie (2008), film...Major-General Henning von Tresckow
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27. Wallander (2008), series...Kurt Wallander
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...Sir Alistair Dormandy
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...Self - Interviewee
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...Self - Interviewee
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32. My Week with Marilyn (2011), film...Sir Laurence Olivier
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...Self - Interviewee
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34. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), film...Viktor Cherevin
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...Self - Director, Thor
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36. Mindhorn (2016), film...Kenneth Branagh
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37. Murder on the Orient Express (2017), film...Hercule Poirot
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38. Dunkirk (2017), film...Commander Bolton
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39. All Is True (2018), film...William Shakespeare
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40. Lost Lives (2019), film...(voice)
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41. Tenet (2020), film...Sator
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...Self (archive footage)
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43. This Cultural Life (2021), series...Self
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44. Death on the Nile (2022), film...Hercule Poirot
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...Self (archive footage)
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46. Fireheart (2022), film...Shawn Nolan (voice)
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...Self - Interviewee / Réalisateur de 'Beaucoup de b
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48. This England (2022), series...Boris Johnson
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49. Oppenheimer (2023), film...Niels Bohr
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50. A Haunting in Venice (2023), film...Hercule Poirot
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51. Stan Lee (2023), film...Self (archive footage)
Director:
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1. Henry V (1989), film
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2. Dead Again (1991), film
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3. Peter's Friends (1992), film
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4. Much Ado About Nothing (1993), film
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5. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), film
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6. In the Bleak Midwinter (1995), film
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7. Hamlet (1996), film
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8. Love's Labour's Lost (2000), film
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9. As You Like It (2006), film
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10. The Magic Flute (2006), film
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11. Sleuth (2007), film
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12. Thor (2011), film
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13. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), film
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14. Cinderella (2015), film
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15. Murder on the Orient Express (2017), film
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16. All Is True (2018), film
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17. Artemis Fowl (2020), film
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18. Belfast (2021), film
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19. Death on the Nile (2022), film
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20. A Haunting in Venice (2023), film
Writer:
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1. Henry V (1989), film...(adapted for the screen by)
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2. Much Ado About Nothing (1993), film...(adaptation)
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3. In the Bleak Midwinter (1995), film
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4. Hamlet (1996), film...(screenplay)
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5. Love's Labour's Lost (2000), film...(screenplay)
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6. As You Like It (2006), film...(adaptation)
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7. The Magic Flute (2006), film...(adapted for the screen by)
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8. Belfast (2021), film
Producer:
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1. Peter's Friends (1992), film
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2. Much Ado About Nothing (1993), film
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3. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), film...co-producer
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4. Love's Labour's Lost (2000), film
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5. As You Like It (2006), film...executive producer / producer
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6. Sleuth (2007), film
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7. Thor: The Dark World (2013), film
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8. Murder on the Orient Express (2017), film
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9. All Is True (2018), film
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10. Artemis Fowl (2020), film
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11. Belfast (2021), film
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12. Death on the Nile (2022), film
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13. A Haunting in Venice (2023), film...producer (p.g.a.)
Voice:
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1. Anne Frank Remembered (1995), film...Narration
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2. The Road to El Dorado (2000), film...Miguel
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3. As You Like It (2006), film...Self
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4. Avengers: Infinity War (2018), film...Asgardian Distress Call
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5. Fireheart (2022), film...Shawn Nolan
Narrator:
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1. Omnibus (1967), series
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2. Cold War (1998), series
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3. Walking with Prehistoric Beasts (2001), series
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4. World War I in Colour (2003), series