Kenneth Branagh

Acting

Born 1960-12-10 Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK 164 credits Academy Awards 1 Primetime Emmy Awards 1 Golden Globe Awards 1 BAFTA Awards 2 Society of London Theatre Special Award 1 Knight Bachelor 1 Emmy Award 1

Awards

Won 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 won · 7 nominated

2022 Best Picture Nominated Belfast
2022 Best Director Nominated Belfast
2022 Best Writing, Original Screenplay Won Belfast
2012 Best Supporting Actor Nominated My Week with Marilyn
1997 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Nominated Hamlet
1993 Best Live Action Short Film Nominated Swan Song
1990 Best Director Nominated Henry V
1990 Best Actor Nominated Henry V

Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won

2001 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Won Conspiracy

Golden Globe Awards 1 won

2021 Best Screenplay Won Belfast

BAFTA Awards 2 won

2010 Best Actor Won Wallander
1990 Best Direction Won Henry V

Society of London Theatre Special Award 1 won

— Society of London Theatre Special Award Won

European Film Award for Best Screenwriter 1 nominated

2022 Best Screenwriter Nominated Belfast

Knight Bachelor 1 won

2012 Knight Bachelor Won

Emmy Award 1 won

2001 Emmy Award Won Conspiracy

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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).