Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh

Birthday: 1960-12-10

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

imdb_id: nm0000110

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. 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).

Played in movies:

Look Back in Anger

Score: 9.0

The King of Kings

Score: 8.6

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

Score: 8.5

Avengers: Infinity War

Score: 8.2

Oppenheimer

Score: 8.1

A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics

Score: 8.0

Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence

Score: 8.0

Denzel Washington: A Model American

Score: 7.8

London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder

Score: 7.7

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

Score: 7.7

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

Score: 7.7

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Score: 7.7

Anne Frank Remembered

Score: 7.7

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

Score: 7.6

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

Score: 7.5

The Periwig-Maker

Score: 7.5

Dunkirk

Score: 7.4

Hamlet

Score: 7.3

Conspiracy

Score: 7.3

Walking with Monsters

Score: 7.3

The Road to El Dorado

Score: 7.3

The Boat That Rocked

Score: 7.2

Fireheart

Score: 7.2

Tenet

Score: 7.2

Henry V

Score: 7.2

Universal Horror

Score: 7.1

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

Score: 7.0

Discovering Hamlet

Score: 7.0

Thor: From Asgard to Earth

Score: 7.0

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Score: 7.0

Valkyrie

Score: 6.9

The Tramp and the Dictator

Score: 6.9

Much Ado About Nothing

Score: 6.9

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe

Score: 6.9

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope

Score: 6.9

Warm Springs

Score: 6.8

Looking for Richard

Score: 6.8

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

Score: 6.8

Chariots of Fire

Score: 6.8

Murder on the Orient Express

Score: 6.7

A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers

Score: 6.7

My Week with Marilyn

Score: 6.7

Swing Kids

Score: 6.7

A Haunting in Venice

Score: 6.6

Peter's Friends

Score: 6.5

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

Score: 6.5

The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs

Score: 6.5

Death on the Nile

Score: 6.4

Dead Again

Score: 6.4

IMAX: Galapagos 3D

Score: 6.4

A Month in the Country

Score: 6.4

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Score: 6.4

Othello

Score: 6.4

Sleuth

Score: 6.3

The Theory of Flight

Score: 6.3

The Proposition

Score: 6.2

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Score: 6.1

Mindhorn

Score: 6.1

All Is True

Score: 6.1

Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies

Score: 6.0

Lost Lives

Score: 6.0

Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic

Score: 6.0

Celebrity

Score: 6.0

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

Score: 5.9

Discovering Hamlet

Score: 5.7

As You Like It

Score: 5.7

Prodigal

Score: 5.6

Love's Labour's Lost

Score: 5.6

The Gingerbread Man

Score: 5.6

Five Children and It

Score: 5.6

Alien Love Triangle

Score: 5.5

To the Lighthouse

Score: 5.4

Wild Wild West

Score: 5.3

High Season

Score: 5.3

Strange Interlude

Score: 5.0

It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'

Score: 4.9

Coming Through

Score: 4.8

Stars In Shorts

Score: 4.7

Wild Wild West: Evil Devices

Score: 4.0

The Book That Wrote Itself

Score: 4.0

A Matter of Choice for Billy

Score: 4.0

Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer

Score: 3.5

Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe

Score: 0.0

The Thomas Crown Affair

Score: 0.0

The Devil Wears Prada 2

Score: 0.0

Atonement

Score: 0.0

Altman on His Own Terms

Score: 0.0

Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’

Score: 0.0

Thames Wallah

Score: 0.0

James Ellis: An Actor's Life

Score: 0.0

Lorna

Score: 0.0

Too Late to Talk to Billy

Score: 0.0

Triumph of the Beasts

Score: 0.0

The Beasts Within

Score: 0.0

The Lady's Not For Burning

Score: 0.0

A Coming to Terms for Billy

Score: 0.0

The Dance of Shiva

Score: 0.0

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

Score: 0.0

Schneider's 2nd Stage

Score: 0.0

Easter 2016

Score: 0.0

Shadow of a Gunman

Score: 0.0

Ghosts

Score: 0.0

Mayday

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Walking with Monsters

Score: 8.5

BLUE EYE SAMURAI

Score: 8.5

Walking with Dinosaurs

Score: 8.2

Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood

Score: 8.0

Big Al

Score: 7.8

Walking with Beasts

Score: 7.8

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

American Experience

Score: 7.4

Wallander

Score: 7.3

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Score: 7.2

The Graham Norton Show

Score: 7.2

The Graham Norton Show

Score: 7.2

Shackleton

Score: 7.1

The Oscars

Score: 7.0

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Score: 6.8

Cold War

Score: 6.7

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Score: 6.5

World War 1 in Colour

Score: 6.5

Fortunes of War

Score: 6.5

10 Days to War

Score: 6.4

Play for Today

Score: 6.3

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Score: 6.2

Real Time with Bill Maher

Score: 6.0

Performance

Score: 6.0

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

This England

Score: 5.9

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Score: 5.7

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Score: 5.3

El hormiguero

Score: 4.8

Leute heute

Score: 4.8

Wogan

Score: 4.5

The View

Score: 4.3

Thompson

Score: 1.0

Theatre Night

Score: 0.0

Parkinson

Score: 0.0

The Boy in the Bush

Score: 0.0