# Kenneth Branagh filmography

The following is the filmography for actor, director, producer and screenwriter Kenneth Branagh.
Branagh made his professional theatrical stage debut in Another Country (1982). He gained prominence acting in numerous productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He made his feature film debut in A Month in the Country (1987). He directed and starred in a string of successful 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 also directed Peter's Friends (1992), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Thor (2011), Cinderella (2015), and Belfast (2021).
Branagh directed and starred as Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express (2017), Death on the Nile (2022), and A Haunting in Venice (2023). 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), Rabbit-Proof Fence (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 has collaborated with Christopher Nolan acting in Dunkirk (2017), Tenet (2020), and Oppenheimer (2023).

## As actor
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1981 | Chariots of Fire | Cambridge Student | Uncredited |
| 1985 | Coming Through | D.H. Lawrence | |
| 1987 | A Month in the Country | James Moon | |
| 1987 | High Season | Rick | |
| 1989 | Henry V | Henry V | |
| 1991 | Dead Again | Mike Church / Roman Strauss | |
| 1992 | Peter's Friends | Andrew Benson | |
| 1993 | Swing Kids | Herr Knopp, Gestapo | Uncredited |
| 1993 | Much Ado About Nothing | Benedick | |
| 1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Victor Frankenstein | |
| 1995 | Othello | Iago | |
| 1996 | Hamlet | Prince Hamlet | |
| 1998 | The Gingerbread Man | Rick Magruder | |
| 1998 | The Proposition | Father Michael McKinnon | |
| 1998 | The Theory of Flight | Richard | |
| 1998 | Celebrity | Lee Simon | |
| 1998 | The Dance of the Shiva | Colonel Evans | Short film |
| 1999 | Alien Love Triangle | Steven Chesterman | Short film |
| 1999 | Wild Wild West | Dr. Arliss Loveless | |
| 1999 | Periwig Maker | The Periwig Maker | Short film |
| 2000 | Love's Labour's Lost | Berowne | |
| 2000 | The Road to El Dorado | Miguel | Voice |
| 2000 | How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog | Peter McGowen | |
| 2001 | Schneider's 2nd Stage | Joseph Barnett | Short film |
| 2002 | Rabbit-Proof Fence | A.O. Neville | |
| 2002 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Gilderoy Lockhart | |
| 2004 | Five Children & It | Uncle Albert | |
| 2007 | Sleuth | Man on TV | Uncredited |
| 2008 | Valkyrie | Henning von Tresckow | |
| 2009 | The Boat That Rocked | Sir Alistair Dormandy | |
| 2011 | My Week with Marilyn | Laurence Olivier | |
| 2012 | Stars in Shorts | Mark Snow | Segment: "Prodigal" |
| 2014 | Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit | Viktor Cherevin | |
| 2016 | Mindhorn | Himself | |
| 2017 | Dunkirk | Commander Bolton | |
| 2017 | Murder on the Orient Express | Hercule Poirot | |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | Asgardian Distress Caller | Voice; uncredited |
| 2018 | All Is True | William Shakespeare | |
| 2020 | Tenet | Andrei Sator | |
| 2022 | Fireheart | Shawn Nolan | Voice |
| 2022 | Death on the Nile | Hercule Poirot | |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer | Niels Bohr | |
| 2023 | A Haunting in Venice | Hercule Poirot | |
| 2025 | The King of Kings | Charles Dickens | Voice; in production |
| TBA | Mayday | TBA | Post-production |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1982 | Play for Tomorrow | Student | Episode: "Easter 2016" |
| 1982 | Play for Today | Billy Martin | 3 episodes |
| 1983 | To the Lighthouse | Charles Tansley | Television film |
| 1983 | Maybury | Robert Clyde Moffat | 2 episodes |
| 1984 | The Boy in the Bush | Jack Grant | Miniseries |
| 1985 | Coming Through | D.H. Lawrence | Television film |
| 1987 | The Lady's Not for Burning | Thomas Mendip | Television film |
| 1987 | Lorna | Billy | Television film |
| 1987 | Theatre Night | Oswald | Episode: "Ghosts" |
| 1987 | Fortunes of War | Guy Pringle | 7 episodes |
| 1988 | Thompson | Various roles | 6 episodes |
| 1988 | American Playhouse | Gordan Evans | Episode: "Strange Interlude" |
| 1989 | Look Back in Anger | Jimmy Porter | Television film |
| 1995 | The Shadow of a Gunman | Donal Davoren | Episode: "Shadow of a Gunman" |
| 2001 | Conspiracy | Reinhard Heydrich | Television film |
| 2002 | Shackleton | Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton | Television film |
| 2005 | Warm Springs | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Television film |
| 2006 | Lunar Jim | Eco | 92 episodes |
| 2008 | 10 Days to War | Colonel Tim Collins | Episode: "Our Business is North" |
| 2008–2016 | Wallander | Kurt Wallander | 12 episodes |
| 2018 | Upstart Crow | Colin / The Stranger | Episode: "A Crow Christmas Carol" |
| 2022 | This England | Boris Johnson | Main role |
| 2023 | Blue Eye Samurai | Abijah Fowler | Voice, series regular |

### Theatre

| Year | Title | Role | Venue |
| 1982 | Another Country | Tommy Judd | Queen's Theatre, West End |
| 1983 | Henry V | Henry V | Royal Shakespeare Theatre, London |
| 1984–1985 | Hamlet | Laertes | Barbican Theatre, Off West End |
| 1985 | Love's Labour's Lost | King of Navarre | Royal Shakespeare Theatre, London |
| 1988 | As You Like It | Touchstone | Phoenix Theatre, West End |
| 1988 | Much Ado About Nothing | Benedick | Phoenix Theatre, West End |
| 1990 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Quince | Dominion Theatre, West End |
| 1990 | King Lear | Edgar | Dominion Theatre, West End |
| 1992 | Coriolanus | Coriolanus | Chichester Festival Theatre |
| 1992–1993 | Hamlet | Hamlet | Barbican Theatre, Off West End |
| 2003 | Edmond | Edmond | Olivier Theatre, Off West End |
| 2008 | Ivanov | Performer | Wyndham's Theatre, West End |
| 2011 | The Painkiller | Ralph | Lyric Theatre, Belfast |
| 2013 | Macbeth | Macbeth | Campfield Market Hall, UK |
| 2014 | Macbeth | Macbeth | Park Avenue Armory, Off-Broadway |
| 2016 | The Winter's Tale | Leontes | Garrick Theatre, West End |
| 2016 | Harlequinade | Arthur Gosport | Garrick Theatre, West End |
| 2016 | The Painkiller | Ralph | Garrick Theatre, West End |
| 2016 | The Entertainer | Archie Rice | Garrick Theatre, West End |
| 2023 | King Lear | King Lear | Wyndham's Theatre, West End |
| 2024 | King Lear | King Lear | The Shed, Off-Broadway |

### Narrator

| Year | Title | Notes |
| 1995 | Anne Frank Remembered | Documentary film |
| 1996 | Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood | 6 episodes |
| 1997 | Great Composers | 7 episodes |
| 1998 | Cold War | 24 episodes |
| 1998 | Universal Horror | Documentary film |
| 1999 | Walking with Dinosaurs | 6 episodes |
| 1999 | IMAX: Galapagos | Documentary short film |
| 2001 | The Science of Walking with Beasts | 2 episodes |
| 2001 | The Ballad of Big Al | 2 episodes |
| 2001 | Walking with Beasts | 6 episodes |
| 2002 | The Tramp and the Dictator | Documentary film |
| 2005 | Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs | 3 episodes |
| 2005 | Das Goebbels-Experiment | Documentary film |
| 2005 | World War 1 in Colour | 6 episodes |
| 2006 | The American Experience | Episode: "The Man Behind Hitler" |
| 2011 | A Poem is... | 3 episodes |

## As director

| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
| 1989 | Henry V | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 1991 | Dead Again | Yes | No | No | |
| 1992 | Swan Song | Yes | No | No | Short film |
| 1992 | Peter's Friends | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 1993 | Much Ado About Nothing | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Yes | No | No | |
| 1995 | In the Bleak Midwinter | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 1996 | Hamlet | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2000 | Love's Labour's Lost | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2003 | Listening | Yes | Yes | No | Short film |
| 2006 | As You Like It | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2006 | The Magic Flute | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2007 | Sleuth | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 2011 | Thor | Yes | No | No | |
| 2014 | Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit | Yes | No | No | |
| 2015 | Cinderella | Yes | No | No | |
| 2017 | Murder on the Orient Express | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 2018 | All Is True | Yes | No | No | |
| 2020 | Artemis Fowl | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 2021 | Belfast | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2022 | Death on the Nile | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 2023 | A Haunting in Venice | Yes | No | Yes | |
| TBA | The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde † | Yes | Yes | Yes | Filming |