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Kenneth Branagh is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Stage Director British born on 10 december 1960 at Belfast (United-kingdom)
Sir Kenneth Charles "Ken" Branagh (/ˈbrænə/ BRAN-ə; born 10 December 1960) is a Northern-Irish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has directed or starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including Henry V (1989) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Othello (1995), Hamlet (1996) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), Love's Labour's Lost (2000), and As You Like It (2006).
He has also starred in numerous other films and television series including Fortunes of War (1987), Woody Allen's Celebrity (1998), Wild Wild West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Conspiracy (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Warm Springs (2005), Valkyrie (2008), Wallander (2008–present), and My Week with Marilyn (2011) as Sir Laurence Olivier (Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor). He has directed such notable films as Dead Again (1991) in which he also starred, Swan Song (1992) (Academy Award nominated for Best Live Action Short Film), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) in which he also starred, The Magic Flute (2006), Sleuth (2007), the blockbuster superhero film Thor (2011), the action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) in which he also co-stars, and Cinderella (2015).
He also narrated the BBC documentary miniseries' Walking with Dinosaurs (starred in 1999) (as well as The Ballad of Big Al), Walking with Beasts (2001) and Walking with Monsters (2005).
Branagh has been nominated for five Academy Awards, five Golden Globes, and has won an Emmy and three BAFTAs. He was appointed a knight bachelor in the 2012 Birthday Honours and was knighted on 9 November 2012.
His distant relative Glenn Branagh, who was a UYM member, died in 2001 while attempting to throw a pipe bomb at police.
He is a fan of English football club Tottenham Hotspur and Scottish football club Rangers F.C.
Branagh is a Christian and has spoken about how he 'became more religious' listening to Laurence Olivier's reading of the Bible.
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Kenneth Branagh
Birth name Kenneth Charles Branagh
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 10 december 1960 (63 years) at Belfast (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 10 december 1960 (63 years) at Belfast (United-kingdom)
He has also starred in numerous other films and television series including Fortunes of War (1987), Woody Allen's Celebrity (1998), Wild Wild West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Conspiracy (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Warm Springs (2005), Valkyrie (2008), Wallander (2008–present), and My Week with Marilyn (2011) as Sir Laurence Olivier (Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor). He has directed such notable films as Dead Again (1991) in which he also starred, Swan Song (1992) (Academy Award nominated for Best Live Action Short Film), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) in which he also starred, The Magic Flute (2006), Sleuth (2007), the blockbuster superhero film Thor (2011), the action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) in which he also co-stars, and Cinderella (2015).
He also narrated the BBC documentary miniseries' Walking with Dinosaurs (starred in 1999) (as well as The Ballad of Big Al), Walking with Beasts (2001) and Walking with Monsters (2005).
Branagh has been nominated for five Academy Awards, five Golden Globes, and has won an Emmy and three BAFTAs. He was appointed a knight bachelor in the 2012 Birthday Honours and was knighted on 9 November 2012.
Biography
From 1989 to 1995, Branagh was married to actress Emma Thompson, with whom he starred in Fortunes of War among other projects. During their marriage, and while directing and co-starring with Helena Bonham Carter in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, he began an affair with her. After Thompson divorced him, he and Bonham-Carter were in a well-publicised relationship for several years. In 2003, he married film art director Lindsay Brunnock, whom he met during the shooting of Shackleton.His distant relative Glenn Branagh, who was a UYM member, died in 2001 while attempting to throw a pipe bomb at police.
He is a fan of English football club Tottenham Hotspur and Scottish football club Rangers F.C.
Branagh is a Christian and has spoken about how he 'became more religious' listening to Laurence Olivier's reading of the Bible.
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Filmography of Kenneth Branagh (58 films)
| Year | Name | Job | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Death on the Nile | Actor, Director, Producer | Hercule Poirot |
| 2020 | Artemis Fowl | Director, Producer | |
| 2020 | Tenet | Actor | Andrei Sator |
| 2019 | All Is True | Actor, Director, Producer | William Shakespeare |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | Actor | Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited) |
| 2017 | Dunkirk | Actor | Commander Bolton |
| 2017 | Murder on the Orient Express | Actor, Director, Producer | Hercule Poirot |
| 2015 | Cinderella | Director | |
| 2014 | Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit | Actor, Director | Viktor Cherevin |
| 2013 | Thor: The Dark World | Producer | |
| 2012 | Stars In Shorts | Actor | Mark Snow |
| 2011 | My Week with Marilyn | Actor | Sir Laurence Olivier |
| 2011 | Thor | Director, Scriptwriter | |
| 2011 | Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope | Actor | Self |
| 2011 | Prodigal | Actor | Mark Snow |
| 2009 | The Boat That Rocked | Actor | Dormandy |
| 2008 | Valkyrie | Actor | Henning von Tresckow |
| 2008 | Alien Love Triangle | Actor | Steven Chesterman |
| 2007 | Sleuth | Actor, Director, Producer | Other Man on T.V. |
| 2006 | As You Like It | Actor, Director, Writer, Producer | Self |
| 2006 | The Magic Flute | Director, Adaptation, Producer | |
| 2005 | Warm Springs | Actor | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| 2004 | Five Children and It | Actor | Uncle Albert |
| 2003 | Listening | Director, Writer | |
| 2002 | How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog | Actor | Peter McGowan |
| 2002 | Rabbit-Proof Fence | Actor | A. O. Neville |
| 2002 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Actor | Gilderoy Lockhart |
| 2002 | Shackleton (TV serial) | Actor | Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton |
| 2001 | Conspiracy | Actor | Heydrich |
| 2000 | Love's Labour's Lost | Actor, Director, Writer, Producer | Berowne |
| 2000 | The Road to El Dorado | Actor | Miguel (voice) |
| 1999 | Wild Wild West | Actor | Dr. Arliss Loveless |
| 1999 | The Theory of Flight | Actor | Richard |
| 1999 | The Periwig-Maker | Actor | Periwig-maker (voice) |
| 1998 | Celebrity | Actor | Lee Simon |
| 1998 | The Gingerbread Man | Actor | Rick Magruder |
| 1998 | The Proposition | Actor | Father Michael McKinnon |
| 1998 | The Dance of Shiva | Actor | Colonel Evans |
| 1996 | Hamlet | Actor, Director, Writer | Prince Hamlet |
| 1996 | Looking for Richard | Actor | Self / Interview |
| 1995 | In the Bleak Midwinter | Director, Writer | |
| 1995 | Othello | Actor | Iago |
| 1995 | Anne Frank Remembered | Actor | Narration (voice) |
| 1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Co-Producer | Victor Frankenstein |
| 1993 | Much Ado About Nothing | Actor, Director, Writer, Producer | Benedick |
| 1993 | Swing Kids | Actor | Herr Knopp, Gestapo |
| 1992 | Peter's Friends | Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer | Andrew Benson |
| 1992 | Swan Song | Director, Scriptwriter | |
| 1991 | Dead Again | Actor, Director, Scriptwriter | Roman Strauss / Mike Church |
| 1989 | Henry V | Actor, Director, Writer | Henry V |
| 1989 | Look Back in Anger | Actor | Jimmy Porter |
| 1988 | Twelfth Night, or What You Will | Director, Writer, Stage Director | |
| 1987 | A Month in the Country | Actor | James Soon |
| 1987 | High Season | Actor | Rick |
| 1987 | Ghosts | Actor | Oswald |
| 1985 | Coming Through | Actor | D.H. Lawrence |
| 1983 | To the Lighthouse | Actor | Charles Tansley |
| 1981 | Chariots of Fire | Actor | Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited) |