The following is the filmography for actor, director, producer and screenwriter Kenneth Branagh.
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Film | 45 |
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Television | 23 |
Narrating | 16 |
Theatre | 19 |
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
editFilm
editYear | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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1981 | Chariots of Fire | Cambridge Student | Uncredited | |
1985 | Coming Through | D.H. Lawrence | ||
1987 | A Month in the Country | James Moon | ||
High Season | Rick | |||
1989 | Henry V | Henry V | ||
1991 | Dead Again | Mike Church / Roman Strauss | ||
1992 | Peter's Friends | Andrew Benson | ||
1993 | Much Ado About Nothing | Benedick | ||
Swing Kids | Herr Knopp, Gestapo | Uncredited | ||
1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Victor Frankenstein | ||
1995 | Othello | Iago | ||
1996 | Hamlet | Prince Hamlet | ||
1998 | The Gingerbread Man | Rick Magruder | ||
The Theory of Flight | Richard | |||
Celebrity | Lee Simon | |||
The Proposition | Father Michael McKinnon | |||
The Dance of the Shiva | Colonel Evans | Short film | [1] | |
1999 | Alien Love Triangle | Steven Chesterman | ||
Wild Wild West | Dr. Arliss Loveless | |||
2000 | Love's Labour's Lost | Berowne | ||
The Road to El Dorado | Miguel | Voice | ||
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog | Peter McGowen | |||
Periwig Maker | The Periwig Maker | Short film | ||
2001 | Schneider's 2nd Stage | Joseph Barnett | ||
2002 | Rabbit-Proof Fence | A.O. Neville | ||
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" | [2] |
2014 | Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit | Viktor Cherevin | ||
2016 | Mindhorn | Himself | ||
2017 | Dunkirk | Commander Bolton | ||
Murder on the Orient Express | Hercule Poirot | |||
2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | Asgardian Distress Caller | Voice; uncredited | |
All Is True | William Shakespeare | |||
2020 | Tenet | Andrei Sator | ||
2022 | Fireheart | Shawn Nolan | Voice | [3] |
Death on the Nile | Hercule Poirot | |||
2023 | Oppenheimer | Niels Bohr | ||
A Haunting in Venice | Hercule Poirot | [4] | ||
TBA | Mayday | TBA | Post-production | [5] |
Television
editYear | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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1982 | Play for Tomorrow | Student | Episode: "Easter 2016" | |
Play for Today | Billy Martin | 3 episodes | ||
1983 | To the Lighthouse | Charles Tansley | Television film | |
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 | ||
Lorna | Billy | |||
Theatre Night | Oswald | Episode: "Ghosts" | ||
Fortunes of War | Guy Pringle | 7 episodes | ||
1988 | Thompson | Various roles | 6 episodes | |
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 | ||
2005 | Warm Springs | Franklin D. Roosevelt | ||
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 | [6] |
2023 | Blue Eye Samurai | Abijah Fowler | Voice, series regular | [7] |
Theatre
editNarrator
editYear | Title | Notes | Ref. |
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1995 | Anne Frank Remembered | Documentary film | |
1996 | Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood | 6 episodes | |
1997 | Great Composers | 7 episodes | |
1998 | Cold War | 24 episodes | |
Universal Horror | Documentary film | ||
1999 | Walking with Dinosaurs | 6 episodes | |
IMAX: Galapagos | Documentary short film | ||
2001 | The Science of Walking with Beasts | 2 episodes | |
The Ballad of Big Al | 2 episodes | ||
Walking with Beasts | 6 episodes | ||
2002 | The Tramp and the Dictator | Documentary film | |
2005 | Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs | 3 episodes | |
Das Goebbels-Experiment | Documentary film | [28] | |
World War 1 in Colour | 6 episodes | ||
2006 | The American Experience | Episode: "The Man Behind Hitler" | |
2011 | A Poem is... | 3 episodes |
As director
editYear | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1989 | Henry V | Yes | Yes | No | ||
1991 | Dead Again | Yes | No | No | ||
1992 | Peter's Friends | Yes | No | Yes | ||
Swan Song | Yes | No | No | Short film | ||
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 | ||
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 | [29] | |
2023 | A Haunting in Venice | Yes | No | Yes | ||
TBA | The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde † | Yes | No | Yes | Filming |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "The Dance of Shiva". Stephanie Sinclair Art. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
- ^ Davis, Edward (27 January 2012). "First Look: Kenneth Branagh In Sci-Fi Short 'Prodigal'". Indie Wire. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
- ^ Garcia, Jose Armando (1 February 2022). "'Corazón de Fuego' invita a las niñas a seguir sus sueños". esengdlcoms.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 February 2022.
- ^ "The big twist in 'A Haunting in Venice'? It's actually a great film". NPR. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Ryan Reynolds & Kenneth Branagh To Star In 'Mayday'; Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley Directing Action-Adventure Pic For Apple And Skydance". Deadline Hollywood. 8 June 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ Ravindran, Manori (25 February 2021). "See First Photo of Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson". Variety. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ^ "How the 'Blue Eye Samurai' Creators Assembled a Star-Studded Ensemble Cast". Collider. 22 October 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Another Country". Abouttheartist. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Henry V". Royal Shakespeare Company. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Past Productions Hamlet". Royal Shakespeare Company. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Love's Labour's Lost". Royal Shakespeare Company. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Is Renaissance Theatre's Branagh the New Olivier?". The Los Angeles Times. 16 October 1988. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Theatricalia. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "AN IMPRESSIVE 'KING LEAR' OUTSHINES A FLAWED, HILARIOUS 'DREAM'". The Chicago Tribune. 25 May 1990. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Hiddleston! McKellen! Olivier! Shakespeare's mighty Coriolanus – in pictures". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Past Productions Hamlet". Royal Shakespeare Company. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Review: Edmond". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Casting Complete for Donmar's Ivanov Starring Kenneth Branagh". Playbill. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "The Painkiller - review". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Manchester International Festival to Feature Kenneth Branagh, Rob Ashford, Robert Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Mikhail Baryshnikov". Playbill. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Immersive Production of Macbeth, With Kenneth Branagh, Closes at Park Avenue Armory June 22". Playbill. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "The Winter's Tale Garrick Theatre 2015". London Theatre. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "West End Review: 'The Winter's Tale' and 'Harlequinade,' with Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench". Variety. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "West End Review: Kenneth Branagh in 'The Painkiller'". Variety. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "The Entertainer". Abouttheartist. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "King Lear". Wyndham's Theatre. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Kenneth Branagh Will Be King Lear at Off-Broadway's The Shed". Playbill. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Dr. Goebbels Speaks". Top Documentary Films. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
- ^ McNary, Dave (17 October 2018). "Film News Roundup: 1963 U.S. Naval Academy Football Team to Get Doc Treatment". Variety. Retrieved 19 October 2018.