Kenneth Branagh
Born 1960 · British actor and filmmaker
Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh is a British actor and filmmaker. Born in Belfast and raised primarily in Reading, Branagh trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art 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 knighted 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.
Kenneth Branagh, in order
- 1981 Chariots of Fire: acted · directed by Hugh Hudson
- 1985 Coming Through: acted · directed by Peter Barber-Fleming
- 1987 A Month in the Country: acted · directed by Pat O'Connor · critics 83%, audiences 73% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Kanopy
- 1987 Fortunes of War (TV series): acted · directed by James Cellan Jones
- 1987 High Season: acted · directed by Clare Peploe
- 1988 Twelfth Night (TV movie): directed
- 1989 Henry V: directed, wrote, acted
- 1989 Look Back in Anger (TV movie): acted · directed by Judi Dench
- 1991 Dead Again: directed, acted · critics 82%, audiences 76% · streaming on MGM+, Hoopla
- 1992 Peter's Friends: directed, produced, acted
- 1992 Swan Song (short film): directed
- 1993 Much Ado About Nothing: directed, wrote, produced, acted
- 1993 Swing Kids: acted · directed by Thomas Carter
- 1994 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: directed, acted · audiences 11% · streaming on Netflix, Pluto TV
- 1995 A Midwinter's Tale: directed, wrote
- 1995 Othello: acted · directed by Oliver Parker
- 1996 Hamlet: directed, wrote, acted
- 1996 Looking for Richard: acted · directed by Al Pacino
- 1996 William Shakespeare's Hamlet [Branagh]: directed
- 1998 Celebrity: acted · directed by Woody Allen · critics 45%, audiences 42% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, Roku Channel
- 1998 The Gingerbread Man: acted · directed by Robert Altman · critics 61%, audiences 27%
- 1998 The Proposition: acted · directed by Lesli Linka Glatter
- 1998 The Theory of Flight: acted · directed by Paul Greengrass
- 1999 The Book That Wrote Itself: acted · directed by Liam O Mochain
- 1999 Wild Wild West: acted · directed by Barry Sonnenfeld · critics 17%, audiences 28% · streaming on Paramount+
- 2000 How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog: acted · directed by Michael Kalesniko
- 2000 Love's Labour's Lost: directed, wrote, produced, acted
- 2001 Conspiracy (TV movie): acted · directed by Frank Pierson · critics 100%, audiences 87% · streaming on HBO Max
- 2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: acted · directed by Chris Columbus · critics 82%, audiences 80% · streaming on HBO Max, Peacock
- 2002 Rabbit-Proof Fence: acted · directed by Phillip Noyce
- 2002 Shackleton (TV movie): acted · directed by Charles Sturridge
- 2003 Listening (short film): directed, wrote
- 2004 Five Children and It: acted · directed by John Stephenson
- 2005 Walking with Monsters (TV series): acted · directed by Tim Haines
- 2005 Warm Springs (TV movie): acted · directed by Joseph Sargent
- 2006 As You Like It: directed, wrote
- 2006 The Magic Flute: directed
- 2007 Sleuth: directed
- 2008 10 Days to War (TV series): acted
- 2008 Alien Love Triangle (short film): acted · directed by Danny Boyle
- 2008 Valkyrie: acted · directed by Bryan Singer · critics 62%, audiences 65% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
- 2009 Pirate Radio: acted · directed by Richard Curtis
- 2009 Wallander: Sidetracked (TV movie): acted · directed by Philip Martin
- 2010 Wallander: The fifth Woman (TV movie): acted · directed by Aisling Walsh
- 2011 Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope: acted · directed by Morgan Spurlock
- 2011 My Week with Marilyn: acted · directed by Simon Curtis
- 2011 Prodigal (short film): acted
- 2011 Thor: directed · critics 77%, audiences 76% · streaming on Disney+
- 2012 An Event in Autumn (TV movie): acted · directed by Toby Haynes
- 2012 Stars in Shorts: acted · directed by Jacob Chase and Neil LaBute
- 2012 Wallander (TV series): produced, acted · directed by Niall MacCormick and Philip Martin
- 2014 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit: directed, acted · critics 55%, audiences 52% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Paramount+
- 2015 Cinderella: directed · critics 83%, audiences 78% · streaming on Disney+
- 2016 Mindhorn: acted · directed by Sean Foley
- 2016 Wallander - The Troubled Man (TV movie): produced, acted · directed by Benjamin Caron
- 2017 Dunkirk: acted · directed by Christopher Nolan · critics 92%, audiences 81% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+
- 2017 Murder on the Orient Express: directed, produced, acted · critics 59%, audiences 54% · streaming on HBO Max
- 2018 All Is True: directed, produced, acted
- 2020 Artemis Fowl: directed, produced · critics 8%, audiences 19%
- 2020 Tenet: acted · directed by Christopher Nolan · critics 70%, audiences 76%
- 2021 Belfast: directed, wrote, produced · critics 86%, audiences 92% · streaming on Peacock, Prime Video (free)
- 2022 Death on the Nile: directed, acted · critics 62%, audiences 82% · streaming on Hulu, fuboTV
- 2022 This England (TV series): acted · directed by Julian Jarrold and Michael Winterbottom
- 2023 A Haunting in Venice: directed, acted · critics 75%, audiences 76% · streaming on Hulu
- 2023 Oppenheimer: acted · directed by Christopher Nolan · critics 93%, audiences 91% · streaming on Peacock, Fandango at Home (free)
- 2026 Atonement: acted · directed by Reed Van Dyk
- 2026 Mayday: acted · directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
- 2026 The Devil Wears Prada 2: acted · directed by David Frankel · critics 78%, audiences 84% · streaming on Hulu
- 2027 The Thomas Crown Affair: acted · directed by Michael B. Jordan
- A Lesson in Love (TV movie): produced
- Before the Frost (TV movie): produced
- Faceless Killers (TV movie): produced · directed by Hettie MacDonald
- Firewall (TV movie): produced · directed by Niall MacCormick
- One Step Behind (TV movie): produced
- The Boy in the Bush (TV series): acted
- The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde: directed, wrote
- The Man Who Smiled (TV movie): produced · directed by Andy Wilson
- The White Lion (TV movie): produced