🎬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).

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026)	Stuart		6.5
2	A Haunting in Venice (2023)	Director / Writer		6.6
3	Oppenheimer (2023) Most waited movies 2023 and after	Niels Bohr		8.2
4	Fireheart (2022)	Shawn Nolan (voice)		8
5	Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba (2022)	Self	-	-
6	Death on the Nile (2022) Most waited movies 2022	Director / Writer		6.4
7	Belfast (2021)	Director / Writer		7.1
8	Artemis Fowl (2020)	Director / Writer		5.6
9	Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’ (2020)	Self		8
10	Tenet (2020) Top movies in 2020	Sator		7.4
11	Avengers: Infinity War (2018) Top 100 by FilmGator	Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)		8.7
12	All Is True (2018)	Director / Writer		4
13	Murder on the Orient Express (2017)	Director / Writer		6.8
14	Dunkirk (2017) Top 100 by FilmGator	Commander Bolton		7.9
15	Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet (2016)	Director / Writer	-	-
16	Mindhorn (2016)	Himself		7
17	Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale (2015)	Director / Writer	-	-
18	Cinderella (2015) Oscars 2016	Director / Writer		7
19	Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)	Director / Writer		6.4
20	Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe (2014)	Self		7.7
21	National Theatre Live: Macbeth (2013)	Director / Writer	-	-
22	Stars in Shorts (2012)	Mark Snow	-	-
23	Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe (2012)	Self		10
24	London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder (2012)	Isambard Kingdom Brunel		7
25	Thor: From Asgard to Earth (2011)	Self	-	-
26	Thor (2011)	Director / Writer		7.4
27	Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope (2011)	Self		7.5
28	My Week with Marilyn (2011) Oscars 2012	Sir Laurence Olivier		6.9
29	With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story (2010)	Self		7
30	The Boat That Rocked (2009)	Dormandy		7.5
31	Valkyrie (2008)	Henning von Tresckow		7.2
32	Sleuth (2007)	Director / Writer		6.8
33	As You Like It (2006)	Director / Writer	-	-
34	The Goebbels Experiment (2005)	Narrator (voice)	-	-
35	Five Children and It (2004)	Uncle Albert		8.3
36	How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2002)	Peter McGowan	-	-
37	Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)	A. O. Neville		5
38	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)	Gilderoy Lockhart		7.7
39	Conspiracy (2001)	Reinhard Heydrich		7
40	Love's Labour's Lost (2000)	Director / Writer	-	-
41	Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000)	Self / Narrator	-	-
42	The Road to El Dorado (2000)	Miguel (voice)		7.4
43	The Periwig-Maker (1999)	Periwig-maker (voice)	-	-
44	Wild Wild West (1999)	Dr. Arliss Loveless		5
45	The Gingerbread Man (1998)	Rick Magruder		6.3
46	Celebrity (1998)	Lee Simon		5
47	Looking for Richard (1996)	Self - Interviewee		7.3
48	Hamlet (1996)	Director / Writer		6.2
49	In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)	Director / Writer		8
50	Othello (1995)	Iago		5
51	Anne Frank Remembered (1995)	Narration (voice)		6
52	Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)	Director / Writer		6.5
53	Swing Kids (1993)	Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)		1
54	Much Ado About Nothing (1993)	Director / Writer		7.2
55	Peter's Friends (1992)	Director / Writer		6
56	Dead Again (1991)	Director / Writer		7
57	Discovering Hamlet (1990)	Himself / Hamlet	-	-
58	Henry V (1989)	Director / Writer		7
59	Chariots of Fire (1981)	Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)		6.5