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 ...
Avengers: Infinity War
2018
Oppenheimer
2023
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
Rabbit-Proof Fence
2002
Altman on His Own Terms
2000
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
2015
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2014
Valkyrie
2008
Tenet
2020
Murder on the Orient Express
2017
Look Back in Anger
1989
All Is True
2018
Conspiracy
2001
Dunkirk
2017
The Road to El Dorado
2000
A Haunting in Venice
2023
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
2010
Death on the Nile
2022
Much Ado About Nothing
1993
Coming Through
1985
The Devil Wears Prada 2
2026
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
The Theory of Flight
1999
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
The Tramp and the Dictator
2002
Wild Wild West
1999
The King of Kings
2025
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe
2012
Universal Horror
1998
Fireheart
2022
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
2007
A Coming to Terms for Billy
1984
Discovering Hamlet
2011
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
The Book That Wrote Itself
2000
My Week with Marilyn
2011
Five Children and It
2004
The Boat That Rocked
2009