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).

Фільмографія

• 2027Афера Томаса Крауна
• 2026Atonement — Michael Reid
• 2026Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean — David Lean (voice)
• 2026Диявол носить Прада 2 — Stuart
• 2026Фестиваль небезпек — Nikolai Ustinov
• The American Revolution — (voice)
• 2025Цар царів — Charles Dickens (voice)
• Блакитноокий самурай — Abijah Fowler (voice)
• 2023Оппенгеймер — Niels Bohr
• 2023Привиди у Венеції — Hercule Poirot, Director, Producer
• This England — Boris Johnson
• 2022Полум'яне Серце — Shawn Nolan (voice)
• 2022Смерть на Нілі — Hercule Poirot, Director, Producer
• 2021Белфаст — Producer, Writer, Director
• 2020Артеміс Фаул — Director, Producer
• 2020Тенет — Sator
• 2019Lost Lives — Narrator
• 2018Месники: Війна нескінченності — Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
• 2018Чиста правда — William Shakespeare, Director, Producer
• 2017Вбивство у «Східному експресі» — Hercule Poirot, Director, Producer
• 2017Дюнкерк — Commander Bolton
• 2016Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet — Director
• 2016Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer — Archie Rice
• 2015Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale — Leontes, Director
• 2015Попелюшка — Director
• 2014Джек Раян: Теорія хаосу — Viktor Cherevin, Director
• 2013National Theatre Live: Macbeth — Macbeth, Stage Director
• 2013Тор 2: Царство темряви — Producer
• 2012London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder — Isambard Kingdom Brunel
• 2012Stars in Shorts — Mark Snow
• 20117 днів і ночей з Мерилін — Sir Laurence Olivier
• 2011Discovering Hamlet — Hamlet (archive footage)
• 2011Prodigal — Mark Snow
• 2011Тор — Director
• 20091939: Hollywood's Greatest Year — Narrator (voice)
• 2009Рок-хвиля — Dormandy
• 10 Days to War — Colonel Tim Collins
• 2008Alien Love Triangle — Steven Chesterman
• Wallander — Kurt Wallander, Executive Producer
• 2008Операція Валькірія — Henning von Tresckow
• 2007Sleuth — Other Man on T.V., Director, Producer
• 2006As You Like It — Self (voice), Writer, Director, Producer
• 2006The Magic Flute — Screenplay, Director, Adaptation, Producer
• 2005The Goebbels Experiment — Narrator (voice)
• 2005Walking with Monsters — Narrator (voice)
• Walking with Monsters — Narrator (voice), Acting Double
• 2005Warm Springs — Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• 2004Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic — Narrator (voice)
• 2004Five Children and It — Uncle Albert
• 2003Listening — Writer, Director
• World War I in Colour — Narrator
• 2002How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog — Peter McGowan
• Shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
• 2002The Tramp and the Dictator — Narrator (voice)
• 2002Гаррі Поттер і таємна кімната — Gilderoy Lockhart
• 2002Клітка для кроликів — A. O. Neville
• 2001Conspiracy — Reinhard Heydrich
• 2001Schneider's 2nd Stage — Joseph Barnett
• 2001The Beasts Within — Narrator (voice)
• 2001Triumph of the Beasts — Narrator (voice)
• Walking with Beasts — Narrator
• Big Al — Narrator
• 2000Love's Labour's Lost — Berowne, Writer, Director, Producer, Screenplay
• 2000The Book That Wrote Itself — Kenneth Branagh
• 2000The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs — Narrator
• 2000Дорога на Ельдорадо — Miguel (voice)
• 1999IMAX: Galapagos 3D — Narrator
• 1999The Periwig-Maker — Periwig-maker (voice)
• 1999The Theory of Flight — Richard
• 1999Дикий, дикий Вест — Dr. Arliss Loveless
• Cold War
• 1998The Dance of Shiva — Colonel Evans
• 1998The Gingerbread Man — Rick Magruder
• 1998The Proposition — Father Michael McKinnon
• 1998Universal Horror — Narrator
• 1998Знаменитість — Lee Simon
• TFI Friday
• 1996Гамлет — Prince Hamlet, Director, Adaptation
• 1995Anne Frank Remembered — Narration (voice)
• Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
• 1995In the Bleak Midwinter — Director, Writer
• 1995Othello — Iago
• 1995Shadow of a Gunman — Donal Davoren
• 1994Франкенштейн Мері Шеллі — Victor Frankenstein, Director, Co-Producer
• 1993Swing Kids — Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)
• 1993Багато галасу з нічого — Benedick, Director, Producer, Writer
• 1992Peter's Friends — Andrew Benson, Director, Producer
• 1992Swan Song — Director
• 1992Symphony for the Spire
• Performance — Donal Davoren
• 1991Померти знову — Roman Strauss / Mike Church, Director
• 1989Henry V — Henry V, Director, Writer
• 1989Look Back in Anger — Jimmy Porter
• American Experience — Narrator (voice)
• Strange Interlude — Gordon Evans
• 1988Thames Wallah — Narrator
• 1988Twelfth Night, or What You Will — Stage Director
• 1987A Month in the Country — James Moon
• Fortunes of War — Guy Pringle
• 1987Ghosts — Oswald Alving
• 1987High Season — Rick
• 1987Lorna — Billy Martin
• 1987The Lady's Not For Burning — Thomas Mendip
• 1985Coming Through — D.H. Lawrence
• Theatre Night — Oswald Alving
• 1984A Coming to Terms for Billy — Billy Martin
• The Boy in the Bush — Jack Grant
• 1983A Matter of Choice for Billy — Billy Martin
• 1983To the Lighthouse — Charles Tansley
• American Playhouse — Gordon Evans
• 1982Easter 2016 — Student
• 1982Too Late to Talk to Billy — Billy Martin
• 1981Вогняні колісниці — Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
• Play for Today
• Omnibus
• Allosaurus A Walking With Dinosaurs Special — Narrator
• Goblin — (voice)
• Laird — Laird of Castle Drummoch, Executive Producer
• The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde — Director, Screenplay

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (47)

• 2025Tea with Judi Dench featuring Kenneth Branagh — Self
• 2022Denzel Washington: A Model American — Self
• 2022Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba — Self
• Remembers… — Self
• 2020Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’ — Self
• Шоу Келлі Кларксон — Self
• 2018Marvel Studios: The First 10 Years - More Than a Hero — Self
• 2016Mindhorn — Himself
• Hot Ones — Self
• Пізнє шоу зі Стівеном Кольбером — Self
• 2014Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe — Self
• Пізньої ночі з Сетом Маєрсом — Self
• 2011Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope — Self
• 2011Thor: From Asgard to Earth — Self
• 2010With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story — Self
• 2009A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics — Self
• 2009A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers — Self
• 2007James Ellis: An Actor's Life — Himself
• 2007Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out — Self
• Шоу Ґрема Нортона — Self, Self - Guest
• El hormiguero — Self
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — Self
• Parkinson — Self - Guest
• 2004The Magic Touch of Harry Potter — Self
• 2003Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence — Himself / Narrator
• В даний час з Біллом Маром — Self
• Шоу Елен Дедженерес — Self
• 2000Altman on His Own Terms — Self
• 2000Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces — Self / Narrator
• 1999It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West' — Self
• Walking with Dinosaurs — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 1999Wild Wild West: Evil Devices — Himself
• 1999Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies — Himself
• Parkinson — Self
• Leute heute — Self
• Погляд — Self
• 1996Looking for Richard — Self - Interviewee
• 1994It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein — Self
• Пізня ніч із Конаном О'Браєном — Self - Guest
• 1990Discovering Hamlet — Himself / Hamlet
• Thompson — Self
• Воґан — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• «Сьогодні ввечері» з Джонні Карсоном — Self
• Tony Awards — Self
• Оскар — Self
• Золотий глобус — Self - Nominee