
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).

Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

ハムレット

ヘンリー五世

In the Bleak Midwinter

ベルファスト

Much Ado About Nothing

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

シンデレラ

マイティ・ソー

オリエント急行殺人事件

Peter's Friends

名探偵ポアロ:ベネチアの亡霊

フランケンシュタイン

ナイル殺人事件

Dead Again

魔笛

スルース

エージェント:ライアン

シェイクスピアの庭

As You Like It

恋の骨折り損

アルテミスと妖精の身代金

Look Back in Anger

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

Walking with Monsters

BLUE EYE SAMURAI/ブルーアイ・サムライ

キング・オブ・キングス

アベンジャーズ/インフィニティ・ウォー

ウォーキング WITH ダイナソー BBCオリジナル・シリーズ

オッペンハイマー

A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics

Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

ウォーキング WITH ダイナソー スペシャル:伝説の恐竜ビッグ・アル

London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder

Walking with Beasts

ハリー・ポッターと秘密の部屋

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

Anne Frank Remembered

Der Perückenmacher

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

ダンケルク

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

刑事ヴァランダー

ハムレット

エル・ドラド 黄金の都

Conspiracy

レイト・ナイト・ウィズ・コナン・オブライエン

パイレーツ・ロック

Fireheart

グレアム・ノートン・ショー

ゴールデングローブ賞

TENET テネット

BBC ウォーキング WITH モンスター ~前恐竜時代 巨大生物の誕生

Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain

ヘンリー五世

Universal Horror

Shackleton

裸足の1500マイル

Discovering Hamlet

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

The Tramp and the Dictator

Thor: From Asgard to Earth

Symphony for the Spire

アカデミー賞

ワルキューレ

Much Ado About Nothing

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe

Cold War

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

リチャードを探して

炎のランナー

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

オリエント急行殺人事件

A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers

マリリン 7日間の恋

スウィング・キッズ

Warm Springs

American Experience

Peter's Friends

名探偵ポアロ:ベネチアの亡霊

IMAX: Galapagos 3D

Lon Chaney: A thousand faces

World War 1 in Colour

フランケンシュタイン

ナイル殺人事件

Dead Again

ケリー・クラークソン・ショー

10 Days to War

A Month in the Country

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

Othello

Das Goebbels-Experiment

Play for Today

スルース

The Theory of Flight

ザ・レイト・ショー・ウィズ・スティーヴン・コルベア

エージェント:ライアン

情欲失格

Fortunes of War

マインドホーン

Real Time with Bill Maher

シェイクスピアの庭

Stars in Shorts

Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic

Lost Lives

Performance

セレブリティ

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

This England

Discovering Hamlet

As You Like It

The Gingerbread Man

Prodigal

エレンの部屋

Five Children and It

恋の骨折り損

Alien Love Triangle

The American Revolution

ワイルド・ワイルド・ウエスト

レイト・ナイト・ウィズ・セス・マイヤーズ

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

High Season

To the Lighthouse

El hormiguero

Wogan

ザ・ビュー

Coming Through

A Matter of Choice for Billy

The Book That Wrote Itself

Wild Wild West: Evil Devices

Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer

メーデー

Ghosts

Shadow of a Gunman

Easter 2016

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

The Dance of Shiva

A Coming to Terms for Billy

The Lady's Not For Burning

Triumph of the Beasts

The Beasts Within

Too Late to Talk to Billy

Lorna

James Ellis: An Actor's Life

Thames Wallah

Altman on His Own Terms

プラダを着た悪魔2

Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe

Tea with Judi Dench

The Boy in the Bush

Parkinson

Theatre Night

Remembers…