Kenneth Branagh

24 films directed 9 Awards 10 Nominations

Biography

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).

Most directed genres

Recurring actors

Awards and nominations

2022 Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
2022 Academy Award for Best Picture Nominated
2022 Academy Award for Best Director Nominated
2022 European Film Award for Best Screenwriter Nominated
2022 Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay Nominated
2021 Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
2012 Knight Bachelor
2012 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated
2001 Emmy Award
2001 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
1997 Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Nominated
1993 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film Nominated
1990 BAFTA Award for Best Direction
1990 European Film Award for Best Actor
1990 Young European Film of the Year
1990 Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated
1990 European Film Award for Best Actor Nominated
1990 Young European Film of the Year Nominated
— Society of London Theatre Special Award

The career in numbers

US$ 757 mi Total budget from 14 film(s) with data
US$ 2.0 bi Total box office from 15 film(s) with data
US$ 54 mi Average budget from 14 film(s) with data
US$ 132 mi Average box office from 15 film(s) with data
6.5 Average rating from 18 film(s) with data
3.1× Return on investment from 13 film(s) with data

Budget and box office do not exist for every film in our records. Averages are computed over the films that carry the figure, and the count beside each one says how many.

Films directed

Film	Year	Budget	Box office	Rating
A Haunting in Venice	2023	US$ 60 mi	US$ 121 mi	6.6
Death on the Nile	2022	US$ 90 mi	US$ 137 mi	6.4
Belfast	2021	US$ 11 mi	US$ 49 mi	7.0
Artemis Fowl	2020	US$ 125 mi	—	5.5
All Is True	2018	—	US$ 3 mi	6.1
Murder on the Orient Express	2017	US$ 55 mi	US$ 353 mi	6.7
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet	2016	—	—	8.0
Cinderella	2015	US$ 95 mi	US$ 544 mi	6.8
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale	2015	—	—	7.7
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit	2014	US$ 60 mi	US$ 136 mi	6.1
Thor	2011	US$ 150 mi	US$ 449 mi	6.8
Sleuth	2007	—	US$ 342,835	6.3
As You Like It	2006	—	—	5.8
The Magic Flute	2006	—	—	6.3
Listening	2003	—	—	7.5
Love's Labour's Lost	2000	US$ 13 mi	US$ 300,000	5.6
Hamlet	1996	US$ 18 mi	US$ 5 mi	7.3
In the Bleak Midwinter	1995	—	—	7.1
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	1994	US$ 45 mi	US$ 112 mi	6.4
Much Ado About Nothing	1993	US$ 11 mi	US$ 23 mi	7.0
Peter's Friends	1992	—	—	6.6
Dead Again	1991	US$ 15 mi	US$ 38 mi	6.4
Henry V	1989	US$ 9 mi	US$ 10 mi	7.1
The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde	—	—	—	—

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