Kenneth Branagh

Also known as Sir Kenneth Charles "Ken" Branagh, Sir Kenneth Branagh, Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh

British actor and filmmaker (born 1960)

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Kenneth Branagh is a British actor and filmmaker born in 1960 who has worked in film, television, and theater. He is notable for his contributions to both acting and directing across multiple entertainment mediums.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1960-12-10
Works: 21

Top works

Winter's Tale
The Making of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
Dead Again
Much ado about nothing
Two great danes

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Film & TV

Acting · 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…

Known for

The Thomas Crown Affair2027
Mayday — Nikolai Ustinov2026
Atonement — Michael Reid2026
The Devil Wears Prada 2 — Stuart2026
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean — David Lean (voice)2026
The King of Kings — Charles Dickens (voice)2025
Tea with Judi Dench — Self2025
The American Revolution — (voice)2025
A Haunting in Venice — Hercule Poirot2023
Oppenheimer — Niels Bohr2023

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: United Kingdom
Active from: 1960

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 2,809
Total plays: 8,702

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method
· 2001 · cited 160,589x
Differential Evolution – A Simple and Efficient Heuristic for global Optimization over Continuous Spaces
· 1997 · cited 24,188x
Analyzing real-time PCR data by the comparative CT method
· 2008 · cited 23,232x
Common risk factors in the returns on stocks and bonds
· 1993 · cited 20,259x
Physisorption of gases, with special reference to the evaluation of surface area and pore size distribution (IUPAC Technical Report)
· 2015 · cited 18,779x

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Wikidata facts

Image: Kenneth Branagh at diff 2015.jpg
Height: 1.77

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Commons category: Kenneth Branagh
date of birth: 1960-12-10
start of work period: 1981-00-00
name in native language: Kenneth Branagh
birth name: Kenneth Charles Branagh

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Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (/ˈbrænə/ BRAN-ə; born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Born in Belfast and raised primarily in Reading, 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 knighted 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 Dead Again (1991), 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 Best Director, and won Best Original Screenplay.