Kenneth Branagh

Acting · Born 1960-12-10 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Biography

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…

Filmography

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Gilderoy Lockhart
• The Road to El Dorado as Miguel (voice)
• Valkyrie as Henning von Tresckow
• Hamlet as Prince Hamlet
• Henry V as Henry V
• Much Ado About Nothing as Benedick
• Rabbit-Proof Fence as A. O. Neville
• Conspiracy as Reinhard Heydrich
• The Boat That Rocked as Dormandy
• Oppenheimer as Niels Bohr

TV

• BLUE EYE SAMURAI as Abijah Fowler (voice)
• Walking with Dinosaurs as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Walking with Beasts as Narrator
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
• The View as Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
• Big Al as Narrator
• Play for Today
• Cold War
• Shackleton as Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton