credits of
Kenneth Branagh
Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (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).
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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March 4th, 2027 | The Thomas Crown Affair | TBD | TBD | |
September 3rd, 2026 | Mayday | Nikolai Ustinov | TBD | |
May 15th, 2026 | Atonement | Michael Reid | TBD | |
April 29th, 2026 | The Devil Wears Prada 2 | Stuart | 6.7 | |
December 22nd, 2025 | Tea with Judi Dench | Self | TBD | |
April 7th, 2025 | The King of Kings | Charles Dickens (voice) | 8.2 | |
September 13th, 2023 | A Haunting in Venice | Hercule Poirot | 6.6 | |
July 19th, 2023 | Oppenheimer | Niels Bohr | 8 | |
November 26th, 2022 | Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba | Self | 7.8 | |
October 15th, 2022 | Denzel Washington: A Model American | Self | 7.2 | |
February 9th, 2022 | Death on the Nile | Hercule Poirot | 6.4 | |
January 16th, 2022 | Fireheart | Shawn Nolan (voice) | 7.2 | |
December 15th, 2020 | Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’ | Self | 6.3 | |
August 22nd, 2020 | Tenet | Sator | 7.2 | |
October 10th, 2019 | Lost Lives | Narrator | 6 | |
December 21st, 2018 | All Is True | William Shakespeare | 6 | |
April 25th, 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited) | 8.2 | |
November 3rd, 2017 | Murder on the Orient Express | Hercule Poirot | 6.7 | |
July 19th, 2017 | Dunkirk | Commander Bolton | 7.5 | |
October 27th, 2016 | Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer | Archie Rice | 3.5 | |
October 9th, 2016 | Mindhorn | Himself | 6.1 | |
November 30th, 2015 | Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale | Leontes | 7.7 | |
March 18th, 2014 | Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe | Self | 6.9 | |
January 15th, 2014 | Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit | Viktor Cherevin | 6.1 | |
July 19th, 2013 | National Theatre Live: Macbeth | Macbeth | 7 | |
September 28th, 2012 | Stars in Shorts | Mark Snow | 6 | |
September 25th, 2012 | Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe | Self | 6 | |
July 27th, 2012 | London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder | Isambard Kingdom Brunel | 7.7 | |
November 23rd, 2011 | My Week with Marilyn | Sir Laurence Olivier | 6.7 | |
November 1st, 2011 | Discovering Hamlet | Hamlet (archive footage) | 7.5 | |
September 13th, 2011 | Thor: From Asgard to Earth | Self | 7 | |
September 10th, 2011 | Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope | Self | 6.9 | |
September 1st, 2011 | Prodigal | Mark Snow | 5.6 | |
July 24th, 2010 | With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story | Self | 6.8 | |
December 20th, 2009 | A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics | Self | 8 | |
October 2nd, 2009 | A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers | Self | 6.7 | |
July 2nd, 2009 | 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year | Narrator (voice) | 7.5 | |
April 1st, 2009 | The Boat That Rocked | Dormandy | 7.2 | |
December 25th, 2008 | Valkyrie | Henning von Tresckow | 7 | |
March 8th, 2008 | Alien Love Triangle | Steven Chesterman | 6.7 | |
October 12th, 2007 | Sleuth | Other Man on T.V. | 6.3 | |
August 11th, 2007 | Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out | Self | TBD | |
July 2nd, 2007 | James Ellis: An Actor's Life | Himself | TBD | |
September 1st, 2006 | As You Like It | Self (voice) | 5.8 | |
November 5th, 2005 | Walking with Monsters | Narrator (voice) | 7.2 | |
April 30th, 2005 | Warm Springs | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 6.6 | |
April 13th, 2005 | The Goebbels Experiment | Narrator (voice) | 6.4 | |
October 15th, 2004 | Five Children and It | Uncle Albert | 5.6 | |
June 11th, 2004 | The Magic Touch of Harry Potter | Self | 7.7 | |
April 5th, 2004 | Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic | Narrator (voice) | 6.5 | |
April 15th, 2003 | Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence | Himself / Narrator | 8 | |
November 13th, 2002 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Gilderoy Lockhart | 7.7 | |
February 22nd, 2002 | How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog | Peter McGowan | 5.9 | |
February 14th, 2002 | The Tramp and the Dictator | Narrator (voice) | 7 | |
February 4th, 2002 | Rabbit-Proof Fence | A. O. Neville | 7 | |
November 28th, 2001 | The Beasts Within | Narrator (voice) | 9 | |
November 21st, 2001 | Triumph of the Beasts | Narrator (voice) | 10 | |
May 19th, 2001 | Conspiracy | Reinhard Heydrich | 7.3 | |
March 31st, 2001 | Schneider's 2nd Stage | Joseph Barnett | 10 | |
October 24th, 2000 | Lon Chaney: A thousand faces | Self / Narrator | 6.8 | |
August 8th, 2000 | The Book That Wrote Itself | Kenneth Branagh | 7 | |
March 31st, 2000 | The Road to El Dorado | Miguel (voice) | 7.3 | |
March 31st, 2000 | Love's Labour's Lost | Berowne | 5.5 | |
March 12th, 2000 | The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs | Narrator | 7 | |
January 1st, 2000 | Altman on His Own Terms | Self | 9 | |
November 30th, 1999 | Wild Wild West: Evil Devices | Himself | 4 | |
November 30th, 1999 | Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies | Himself | 6 | |
November 13th, 1999 | The Periwig-Maker | Periwig-maker (voice) | 7.6 | |
October 27th, 1999 | IMAX: Galapagos 3D | Narrator | 6.6 | |
June 30th, 1999 | Wild Wild West | Dr. Arliss Loveless | 5.3 | |
June 29th, 1999 | It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West' | Self | 5 | |
January 22nd, 1999 | The Theory of Flight | Richard | 6.3 | |
December 18th, 1998 | The Dance of Shiva | Colonel Evans | 9 | |
October 8th, 1998 | Universal Horror | Narrator | 7.1 | |
September 25th, 1998 | Celebrity | Lee Simon | 6 | |
March 26th, 1998 | The Proposition | Father Michael McKinnon | 6 | |
January 23rd, 1998 | The Gingerbread Man | Rick Magruder | 5.6 | |
December 25th, 1996 | Hamlet | Prince Hamlet | 7.3 | |
October 11th, 1996 | Looking for Richard | Self - Interviewee | 6.8 | |
December 15th, 1995 | Othello | Iago | 6.4 | |
October 7th, 1995 | Shadow of a Gunman | Donal Davoren | 10 | |
June 8th, 1995 | Anne Frank Remembered | Narration (voice) | 7.6 | |
November 4th, 1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Victor Frankenstein | 6.4 | |
October 25th, 1994 | It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein | Self | 8.8 | |
May 7th, 1993 | Much Ado About Nothing | Benedick | 7 | |
March 5th, 1993 | Swing Kids | Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited) | 6.7 | |
September 18th, 1992 | Peter's Friends | Andrew Benson | 6.6 | |
January 1st, 1992 | Symphony for the Spire | TBD | 8.5 | |
August 23rd, 1991 | Dead Again | Roman Strauss / Mike Church | 6.4 | |
January 7th, 1990 | Discovering Hamlet | Himself / Hamlet | 5.9 | |
December 28th, 1989 | Look Back in Anger | Jimmy Porter | 9.3 | |
October 5th, 1989 | Henry V | Henry V | 7.1 | |
February 4th, 1988 | Thames Wallah | Narrator | TBD | |
September 27th, 1987 | A Month in the Country | James Moon | 6.5 | |
September 1st, 1987 | High Season | Rick | 5.2 | |
June 14th, 1987 | Ghosts | Oswald Alving | 7 | |
June 2nd, 1987 | Lorna | Billy Martin | 9 | |
January 1st, 1987 | The Lady's Not For Burning | Thomas Mendip | 10 | |
December 27th, 1985 | Coming Through | D.H. Lawrence | 4.7 | |
February 21st, 1984 | A Coming to Terms for Billy | Billy Martin | 7 | |
May 10th, 1983 | A Matter of Choice for Billy | Billy Martin | 6 | |
March 22nd, 1983 | To the Lighthouse | Charles Tansley | 5.2 | |
May 18th, 1982 | Easter 2016 | Student | 9 | |
February 16th, 1982 | Too Late to Talk to Billy | Billy Martin | 7 | |
May 15th, 1981 | Chariots of Fire | Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited) | 6.8 | |
TBD | The Goblin | (voice) | TBD |