Kenneth Branagh
British actor and filmmaker (born 1960)
Kenneth Branagh is a British actor and filmmaker, born in Belfast. He earned Academy Award nominations as actor and director for Henry V, and won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Belfast. He co-founded the Renaissance Theatre Company, starred in Wallander, directed Thor and played Hercule Poirot. He was knighted in 2012.
Kenneth Branagh appears in 15 films and 1 TV series in The Rerun, from 1981 to 2026. That includes 4 titles as director. Most of that work is in drama, history and comedy. Frequent collaborators in The Rerun: Christopher Nolan (3), Emily Blunt (2), Matthias Schweighöfer (2), Cillian Murphy (2), Michael Caine (2).
Known for
- Henry V (1989), Director. His directing debut, which earned him Oscar nominations for acting and directing.
- Belfast (2021), Director. His personal drama about a childhood in 1960s Northern Ireland won him the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
- Hamlet (1996), Director. A full-text, 70mm adaptation that was nominated for the Oscar for Adapted Screenplay.
- Murder on the Orient Express (2017), Hercule Poirot. Directed and starred as Agatha Christie’s detective.
- Wallander (2008), Kurt Wallander. Starred in and executive produced the BBC adaptation of Henning Mankell’s novels.
- Oppenheimer (2023), Niels Bohr. Plays the physicist in Christopher Nolan’s atomic-bomb drama.
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Quick answers
- What movies and TV shows has Kenneth Branagh been in?
- Kenneth Branagh appears in The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026), Blue Eye Samurai (2023), A Haunting in Venice (2023), Oppenheimer (2023), Tenet (2020), Dunkirk (2017), Cinderella (2015), My Week with Marilyn (2011), Thor (2011), Valkyrie (2008), Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) on The Remote.
- When was Kenneth Branagh born?
- Kenneth Branagh was born on 10 December 1960.
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