Kenneth Branagh

🎂 Data nașterii: 1960-12-10 (Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK)

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).

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Kenneth Branagh

Filme în care a jucat

Harry Potter și Camera Secretelor

Drumul spre El Dorado

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Operațiunea Valkyrie

Hamlet

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

Henry V

Sleuth

Peter's Friends

Înviat din morți

Much Ado About Nothing

Vestul sălbatic sălbatic

Celebrity

Carele de foc

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Conspirația

The Gingerbread Man

Walking with Monsters

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

A Month in the Country

Othello

Five Children and It

Warm Springs

IMAX: Galapagos 3D

Der Perückenmacher

Pirații muzicii

Love's Labour's Lost

O săptămână cu Marilyn

The Theory of Flight

Mayday

Cu o mare putere: Povestea lui Stan Lee

Bântuind prin Veneția

High Season

London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder

Ghosts

Universal Horror

Stele în scurte

Jack Ryan: Agentul din umbră

Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

Discovering Hamlet

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

Shadow of a Gunman

The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs

Look Back in Anger

Discovering Hamlet

Looking for Richard

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

Easter 2016

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

Alien Love Triangle

Oppenheimer

Propunerea

Schneider's 2nd Stage

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe

Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain

Cum îți place ție

The Dance of Shiva

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

Împăratul împăraților

Dunkirk

Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic

Crima din Orient Express

Coming Through

Anne Frank Remembered

The Tramp and the Dictator

A Coming to Terms for Billy

A Matter of Choice for Billy

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope

The Book That Wrote Itself

Prodigal

Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer

To the Lighthouse

The Lady's Not For Burning

Swing Kids

Mindhorn