Kenneth Branagh
Birthday: 1960-12-10
Birthplace: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Gender: Male
Drafted: 250
Drafted By: Zac E. Chan
Owned By: Zac E. Chan
Owned Wins: 0
Owned Noms: 0
Win Bonus: 0
Nom Bonus: 0
Total Points: 0
Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (/ˈbrænə/ BRAN-ə; 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).
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Career Statisics
| Season | Age | Movie | Role | Result | Points | |
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| 1990 | 30 | Henry V (1989) | Leading Actor | Nom | 0 | |
| 2012 | 52 | My Week with Marilyn (2011) | Supporting Actor | Nom | 0 | |
| Career | 0 |
Transaction History
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Credits
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2025-04-07 | The King of Kings | Charles Dickens (voice) |
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2023-09-13 | A Haunting in Venice | Hercule Poirot |
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2023-07-19 | Oppenheimer | Niels Bohr |
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2022-02-09 | Death on the Nile | Hercule Poirot |
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2022-01-16 | Fireheart | Shawn Nolan (voice) |
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2020-08-22 | Tenet | Sator |
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2019-10-10 | Lost Lives | |
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2018-12-21 | All Is True | William Shakespeare |
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2018-04-25 | Avengers: Infinity War | Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited) |
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2017-11-03 | Murder on the Orient Express | Hercule Poirot |
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2017-07-19 | Dunkirk | Commander Bolton |
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2016-10-27 | Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer | Archie Rice |
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2015-11-30 | Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale | Leontes |
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2014-01-15 | Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit | Viktor Cherevin |
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2013-07-19 | National Theatre Live: Macbeth | Macbeth, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, general in the King's army |
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2012-09-28 | Stars In Shorts | Mark Snow |
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2012-07-27 | London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder | Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
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2011-11-23 | My Week with Marilyn | Sir Laurence Olivier |
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2011-09-01 | Prodigal | Mark Snow |
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2009-04-01 | The Boat That Rocked | Dormandy |
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2008-12-25 | Valkyrie | Henning von Tresckow |
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2008-03-08 | Alien Love Triangle | Steven Chesterman |
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2007-10-12 | Sleuth | Other Man on T.V. |
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2006-09-01 | As You Like It | self |
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2005-04-30 | Warm Springs | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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2004-10-15 | Five Children and It | Uncle Albert |
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2002-11-13 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Gilderoy Lockhart |
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2002-02-22 | How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog | Peter McGowan |
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2002-02-04 | Rabbit-Proof Fence | A. O. Neville |
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2001-05-19 | Conspiracy | Reinhard Heydrich |
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2001-03-31 | Schneider's 2nd Stage | Joseph Barnett |
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2000-08-08 | The Book That Wrote Itself | Kenneth Branagh |
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2000-03-31 | The Road to El Dorado | Miguel (voice) |
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2000-03-31 | Love's Labour's Lost | Berowne |
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1999-11-13 | The Periwig-Maker | Periwig-maker (voice) |
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1999-06-30 | Wild Wild West | Dr. Arliss Loveless |
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1999-01-22 | The Theory of Flight | Richard |
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1998-12-18 | The Dance of Shiva | Colonel Evans |
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1998-09-07 | Celebrity | Lee Simon |
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1998-03-26 | The Proposition | Father Michael McKinnon |
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1998-01-23 | The Gingerbread Man | Rick Magruder |
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1996-12-25 | Hamlet | Prince Hamlet |
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1995-12-15 | Othello | Iago |
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1995-10-07 | Shadow of a Gunman | Donal Davoren |
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1995-06-08 | Anne Frank Remembered | Narration (voice) |
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1994-11-04 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Victor Frankenstein |
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1993-05-07 | Much Ado About Nothing | Benedick |
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1993-03-05 | Swing Kids | Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited) |
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1992-09-18 | Peter's Friends | Andrew Benson |
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1991-08-23 | Dead Again | Roman Strauss / Mike Church |
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1989-12-28 | Look Back in Anger | Jimmy Porter |
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1989-10-05 | Henry V | Henry V |
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1988-07-13 | Strange Interlude | Gordon Evans |
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1987-09-27 | A Month in the Country | James Soon |
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1987-09-01 | High Season | Rick |
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1987-06-14 | Ghosts | Oswald Alving |
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1987-06-02 | Lorna | Billy Martin |
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1987-01-01 | The Lady's Not For Burning | Thomas Mendip |
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1985-12-27 | Coming Through | D.H. Lawrence |
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1984-02-21 | A Coming to Terms for Billy | Billy Martin |
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1983-05-10 | A Matter of Choice for Billy | Billy Martin |
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1983-03-22 | To the Lighthouse | Charles Tansley |
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1982-05-18 | Easter 2016 | Student |
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1982-02-16 | Too Late to Talk to Billy | Billy Martin |
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1981-05-15 | Chariots of Fire | Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited) |