page_title: Kenneth Branagh
hierarchical_section_title: Kenneth Branagh
caption_attribution_description: English: Kenneth Branagh at a press conference for Thor in London in April 2011.
context_page_description: Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh is a Northern Irish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London; in 2015 he succeeded Richard Attenborough as its president. He has both directed and starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including Henry V, for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Hamlet, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Love's Labour's Lost, and As You Like It.
  Branagh has starred in numerous other projects. His television series include Fortunes of War, Shackleton, and Wallander, for which he won an International Emmy Award. His other major films include Celebrity, Wild Wild West, The Road to El Dorado, as SS leader Reinhard Heydrich in Conspiracy, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Warm Springs, as Major General Henning von Tresckow in Valkyrie, The Boat That Rocked, as Sir Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, Dunkirk, and Tenet.
context_section_description: Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (/ˈbrænə/; born 10 December 1960) is a Northern Irish  actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London; in 2015 he succeeded Richard Attenborough as its president. He has both directed and starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including Henry V (1989), for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director, Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Othello (1995), Hamlet (1996), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Love's Labour's Lost (2000), and As You Like It (2006).
  Branagh has starred in numerous other projects. His television series include Fortunes of War (1987), Shackleton (2002), and Wallander (2008–2016), for which he won an International Emmy Award. His other major films include  Celebrity (1998), Wild Wild West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), as SS leader Reinhard Heydrich in Conspiracy (2001), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award, 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), as Sir Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn (2011), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, Dunkirk (2017), and Tenet (2020).
  Branagh directed and starred in the romantic thriller Dead Again (1991), the horror film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), the action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), and as Hercule Poirot in the mystery drama adaptations of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Death on the Nile (2020). 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). Branagh 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.
caption: Branagh at a press conference for Thor in 2011
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