

Acting
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...
Highest rated appearances
as Niels Bohr

The Devil Wears Prada 2
as Stuart

Lost Lives
as Narrator

All Is True
as William Shakespeare

Avengers: Infinity War
as Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)

Murder on the Orient Express
as Hercule Poirot

Dunkirk
as Commander Bolton

Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
as Archie Rice

Mindhorn
as Himself

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
as Leontes

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
as Self

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
as Viktor Cherevin

National Theatre Live: Macbeth
as Macbeth

Stars in Shorts
as Mark Snow

London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
as Isambard Kingdom Brunel

My Week with Marilyn
as Sir Laurence Olivier

Discovering Hamlet
as Hamlet (archive footage)

Thor: From Asgard to Earth
as Self

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
as Self

Prodigal
as Mark Snow

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
as Self

A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
as Self

A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
as Self

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Narrator (voice)

The Boat That Rocked
as Dormandy

Valkyrie
as Henning von Tresckow

Alien Love Triangle
as Steven Chesterman

Sleuth
as Other Man on T.V.

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
as Self

James Ellis: An Actor's Life
as Himself

As You Like It
as Self (voice)

Walking with Monsters
as Narrator (voice)

Warm Springs
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Goebbels Experiment
as Narrator (voice)

Five Children and It
as Uncle Albert

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
as Self

Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
as Narrator (voice)
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
as Himself / Narrator

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Gilderoy Lockhart

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
as Peter McGowan

The Tramp and the Dictator
as Narrator (voice)

Rabbit-Proof Fence
as A. O. Neville

The Beasts Within
as Narrator (voice)

Triumph of the Beasts
as Narrator (voice)

Conspiracy
as Reinhard Heydrich
Schneider's 2nd Stage
as Joseph Barnett

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
as Self / Narrator

The Book That Wrote Itself
as Kenneth Branagh

The Road to El Dorado
as Miguel (voice)

Love's Labour's Lost
as Berowne

The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
as Narrator

Altman on His Own Terms
as Self
Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies
as Himself

Wild Wild West: Evil Devices
as Himself

The Periwig-Maker
as Periwig-maker (voice)

IMAX: Galapagos 3D
as Narrator

Wild Wild West
as Dr. Arliss Loveless

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

The Theory of Flight
as Richard

The Dance of Shiva
as Colonel Evans

Universal Horror
as Narrator

Celebrity
as Lee Simon

The Proposition
as Father Michael McKinnon

The Gingerbread Man
as Rick Magruder

Hamlet
as Prince Hamlet

Looking for Richard
as Self - Interviewee

Othello
as Iago

Shadow of a Gunman
as Donal Davoren

Anne Frank Remembered
as Narration (voice)

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Victor Frankenstein

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
as Self

Much Ado About Nothing
as Benedick

Swing Kids
as Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)

Peter's Friends
as Andrew Benson

Symphony for the Spire

Dead Again
as Roman Strauss / Mike Church

Discovering Hamlet
as Himself / Hamlet

Look Back in Anger
as Jimmy Porter

Henry V
as Henry V

Thames Wallah
as Narrator

A Month in the Country
as James Moon

High Season
as Rick

Ghosts
as Oswald Alving

Lorna
as Billy Martin

The Lady's Not For Burning
as Thomas Mendip

Coming Through
as D.H. Lawrence

A Coming to Terms for Billy
as Billy Martin

A Matter of Choice for Billy
as Billy Martin

To the Lighthouse
as Charles Tansley

Easter 2016
as Student

Too Late to Talk to Billy
as Billy Martin

Chariots of Fire
as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)