Kenneth Branagh

Personal Info

Birthday

December 10, 1960

(64 years old)

Place of Birth

Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Also Known As

ケネス・ブラナー

케네스 브래너

肯尼思·布拉纳

קנת' בראנה

کنت برانا

Kenneth Branagh

Biography

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh 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.

Known For

Avengers: Infinity War

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Oppenheimer

American Experience

Wallander

Honest Trailers

Performance

Tenet

Filmography

2025
The King of Kings
as Charles Dickens (voice)
2023
A Haunting in Venice
as Hercule Poirot
Oppenheimer
as Niels Bohr
2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
Denzel Washington: A Model American
as Self
Death on the Nile
as Hercule Poirot
Fireheart
as Shawn Nolan (voice)
2020
Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’
as Self
Tenet
as Sator
2018
All Is True
as William Shakespeare
Avengers: Infinity War
as Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
2017
Murder on the Orient Express
as Hercule Poirot
Dunkirk
as Commander Bolton
2016
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
as Archie Rice
Mindhorn
as Himself
2015
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
as Leontes
2014
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
as Self
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
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe
as Self
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
2011
My Week with Marilyn
as Sir Laurence Olivier
Discovering Hamlet
as Hamlet (archive footage)
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
as Self
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
as Self
Prodigal
as Mark Snow
2010
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
as Self
2009
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
as Self
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
as Self
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Narrator (voice)
The Boat That Rocked
as Dormandy
2008
Valkyrie
as Henning von Tresckow
Alien Love Triangle
as Steven Chesterman
2007
Sleuth
as Other Man on T.V.
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
as Self
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
as Himself
2006
As You Like It
as Self (voice)
2005
Warm Springs
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2004
Five Children and It
as Uncle Albert
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
as Self
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
as Narrator (voice)
2003
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
as Himself / Narrator
2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Gilderoy Lockhart
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
as Peter McGowan
The Tramp and the Dictator
as Narrator (voice)
Rabbit-Proof Fence
as A. O. Neville
2001
The Beasts Within
as Narrator (voice)
Triumph of the Beasts
as Narrator (voice)
Conspiracy
as Reinhard Heydrich
Schneider's 2nd Stage
as Joseph Barnett
2000
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
as Self / Narrator
The Book That Wrote Itself
as Kenneth Branagh
The Road to El Dorado
as Miguel (voice)
Love's Labour's Lost
as Berowne
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
as Narrator
Altman on His Own Terms
as Self
1999
Wild Wild West: Evil Devices
as Himself
Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies
as Himself
The Periwig-Maker
as Periwig-maker (voice)
IMAX: Galapagos 3D
as Narrator
Wild Wild West
as Dr. Arliss Loveless
It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'
as Self
The Theory of Flight
as Richard
1998
The Dance of Shiva
as Colonel Evans
Universal Horror
as Narrator
Celebrity
as Lee Simon
The Proposition
as Father Michael McKinnon
The Gingerbread Man
as Rick Magruder
1996
Hamlet
as Prince Hamlet
Looking for Richard
as Self - Interviewee
1995
Othello
as Iago
Shadow of a Gunman
as Donal Davoren
Anne Frank Remembered
as Narration (voice)
1994
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Victor Frankenstein
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
as Self
1993
Much Ado About Nothing
as Benedick
Swing Kids
as Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)
1992
Peter's Friends
as Andrew Benson
1991
Dead Again
as Roman Strauss / Mike Church
1989
Look Back in Anger
as Jimmy Porter
Henry V
as Henry V
1988
Strange Interlude
as Gordon Evans
Thames Wallah
as Narrator
1987
A Month in the Country
as James Soon
High Season
as Rick
Ghosts
as Oswald Alving
Lorna
as Billy Martin
The Lady's Not For Burning
as Thomas Mendip
1985
Coming Through
as D.H. Lawrence
1984
A Coming to Terms for Billy
as Billy Martin
1983
A Matter of Choice for Billy
as Billy Martin
To the Lighthouse
as Charles Tansley
1982
Easter 2016
as Student
Too Late to Talk to Billy
as Billy Martin
1981
Chariots of Fire
as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)