Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh Movies and TV Shows

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London; in 2015 he succeeded Richard Attenborough as its president. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. He has won three BAFTAs and two Emmy Awards. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2012 Birthday Honours and knighted on 9 November 2012. He was made a Freeman of his native city of Belfast in January 2018. In 2020, he was listed at number 20 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.[4] Branagh has both 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), Love's Labour's Lost (2000), and As You Like It (2006). He was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director for Henry V and for Best Adapted Screenplay for Hamlet. He has also starred in the television series Fortunes of War (1987), Shackleton (2002), and Wallander (2008–2016) and in the films Celebrity (1998), Wild Wild West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), as SS leader Reinhard Heydrich in Conspiracy (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Warm Springs (2005), as Major General Henning von Tresckow in Valkyrie (2008), The Boat That Rocked (2009), and as Sir Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn (2011), Dunkirk (2017), and Tenet (2020). He won an International Emmy Award for Wallander and a Primetime Emmy Award for Conspiracy, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for My Week with Marilyn. Branagh directed and starred in the romantic thriller Dead Again (1991), the horror film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), and the action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014). He directed and starred as Hercule Poirot in the mystery drama adaptations of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Death on the Nile (2022). He also directed such films as Swan Song (1992), which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film, The Magic Flute (2006), Sleuth (2007), the Marvel superhero film Thor (2011), and the live-action adaptation of Disney's Cinderella (2015), He narrated numerous documentary series, including Cold War (1998), Walking with Dinosaurs (1999), The Ballad of Big Al (2001), Walking with Beasts (2001), Walking with Monsters (2005), and World War 1 in Colour (2005).

Personal info

  • Gender: Male
  • Date of birth: 12/10/1960 (64 years old)
  • Place of birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
  • nationality: British
  • height: 1.77 m
  • Net worth: $60,000,000
Year
Genre
IMDB
TMDB
Available on the following streaming services in the United States
BLUE EYE SAMURAI
IMDB 8.7
TMDB 86%
role:
Abijah Fowler (voice)
2023

Action

Adventure

Animation

Drama

8.7
86%
2023

Crime

Drama

Mystery

6.5
66%
Oppenheimer
IMDB 8.3
TMDB 81%
role:
Niels Bohr
2023

Drama

History

8.3
81%
Death on the Nile
IMDB 6.3
TMDB 65%
role:
Producer & 2 more
2022

Crime

Drama

Mystery

6.3
65%
Fireheart
IMDB 6.2
TMDB 75%
role:
Shawn Nolan (voice)
2022

Animation

Comedy

Family

6.2
75%
2022

Documentary

8.0
75%
Belfast
IMDB 7.2
TMDB 72%
role:
Writer & 2 more
2021

Drama

7.2
72%
Tenet
IMDB 7.3
TMDB 72%
role:
Sator
2020

Action

Thriller

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

7.3
72%
Artemis Fowl
IMDB 4.3
TMDB 57%
role:
Producer & 1 more
2020

Action

Adventure

Family

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

4.3
57%
All Is True
IMDB 6.3
TMDB 63%
role:
Producer & 2 more
2018

Drama

History

6.3
63%
Avengers: Infinity War
IMDB 8.4
TMDB 82%
role:
Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
2018

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

8.4
82%
The Dunkirk Spirit: Behind the Making of the Movie
IMDB 7.7
TMDB 77%
role:
Himself
Not available
2018

Documentary

7.7
77%
Not available
Murder on the Orient Express
IMDB 6.5
TMDB 67%
role:
Producer & 2 more
2017

Crime

Drama

Mystery

6.5
67%
Dunkirk
IMDB 7.8
TMDB 75%
role:
Commander Bolton
2017

Action

Drama

War & Politics

7.8
75%
Mindhorn
IMDB 6.3
TMDB 61%
role:
Kenneth Branagh
2016

Comedy

6.3
61%
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
IMDB 8.2
TMDB 78%
role:
Director
Not available
2016

Drama

Romance

8.2
78%
Not available
Cinderella
IMDB 6.9
TMDB 68%
role:
Director
2015

Drama

Family

Romance

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.9
68%
2014

Documentary

TV Movie

7.2
71%
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
IMDB 6.2
TMDB 61%
role:
Director & 1 more
2014

Action

Drama

Thriller

6.2
61%
2013

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.7
65%
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
IMDB 7.9
TMDB 58%
role:
Stage Director & 1 more
2013

Action

Drama

7.9
58%
2012

Documentary

8.3
81%
The Dogs of Riga
IMDB 7.4
TMDB 74%
role:
Kurt Wallander
Not available
2012
7.4
74%
Not available
My Week with Marilyn
IMDB 6.9
TMDB 67%
role:
Sir Laurence Olivier
2011

Drama

6.9
67%
2011

Documentary

7.0
68%
Thor
IMDB 7.0
TMDB 68%
role:
Director & 1 more
2011

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

7.0
68%
2010

Documentary

7.1
68%
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
IMDB 7.8
TMDB 73%
role:
Narrator (voice)
Not available
2009

Documentary

TV Movie

7.8
73%
Not available
2009

Comedy

Drama

7.3
73%
2009

Comedy

Drama

7.8
83%
Valkyrie
IMDB 7.1
TMDB 69%
role:
Henning von Tresckow
2008

Drama

History

Thriller

War & Politics

7.1
69%
One Step Behind
IMDB 7.4
TMDB 70%
role:
Kurt Wallander
2008

Crime

Thriller

7.4
70%
Firewall
IMDB 7.5
TMDB 68%
role:
Kurt Wallander
Not available
2008

Crime

Thriller

7.5
68%
Not available
Wallander
IMDB 7.8
TMDB 75%
role:
Executive Producer & 1 more
2008

Crime

Drama

Mystery

7.8
75%
Sidetracked
IMDB 7.3
TMDB 66%
role:
Kurt Wallander
Not available
2008

Crime

Drama

Mystery

7.3
66%
Not available
Sleuth
IMDB 6.3
TMDB 63%
role:
Producer & 2 more
2007

Drama

Mystery

Thriller

6.3
63%
Five Children and It
IMDB 5.5
TMDB 56%
role:
Uncle Albert
2004

Adventure

Drama

Family

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

5.5
56%
2002

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

7.4
77%
Rabbit-Proof Fence
IMDB 7.4
TMDB 70%
role:
A. O. Neville
2002

Action

Adventure

Drama

History

7.4
70%
Conspiracy
IMDB 7.6
TMDB 73%
role:
Reinhard Heydrich
2001

Drama

History

7.6
73%
The Road to El Dorado
IMDB 6.9
TMDB 72%
role:
Miguel (voice)
2000

Action

Adventure

Animation

Comedy

Family

6.9
72%
Wild Wild West
IMDB 4.9
TMDB 53%
role:
Dr. Arliss Loveless
1999

Action

Adventure

Comedy

Western

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

4.9
53%
Celebrity
IMDB 6.3
TMDB 60%
role:
Lee Simon
1998

Comedy

Drama

6.3
60%
The Gingerbread Man
IMDB 5.7
TMDB 56%
role:
Rick Magruder
1998

Drama

Thriller

5.7
56%
Hamlet
IMDB 7.7
TMDB 75%
role:
Writer & 3 more
1996

Drama

7.7
75%
Looking for Richard
IMDB 7.3
TMDB 68%
role:
Himself/Interview
1996

Documentary

7.3
68%
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
IMDB 6.3
TMDB 64%
role:
Co-Producer & 3 more
1994

Drama

Horror

Romance

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.3
64%
Much Ado About Nothing
IMDB 7.3
TMDB 70%
role:
Writer & 4 more
1993

Comedy

Drama

Romance

7.3
70%
Swing Kids
IMDB 6.8
TMDB 67%
role:
Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)
1993

Drama

Music

6.8
67%
Peter's Friends
IMDB 7.0
TMDB 65%
role:
Producer & 3 more
1992

Comedy

Drama

7.0
65%
Dead Again
IMDB 6.8
TMDB 64%
role:
Director & 2 more
1991

Mystery

Romance

Thriller

6.8
64%
Henry V
IMDB 7.5
TMDB 73%
role:
Writer & 3 more
1989

Drama

History

War & Politics

7.5
73%

FAQs

Some movies or TV shows available in the United States starring or involving Kenneth Branagh are, for example, BLUE EYE SAMURAI, A Haunting in Venice and Oppenheimer.
The streaming services with the largest selection are iTunes, Prime Video and Amazon.
The best StreamFat ratings are BLUE EYE SAMURAI (8.7), Avengers: Infinity War (8.3) and Oppenheimer (8.2).