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Kenneth Branagh

12/10/1960 (63 years old) | Belfast, UK | Actor | Male

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London; in 2015 he succeeded Richard Attenborough as its president. He 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.Branagh has both 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), Love's Labour's Lost (2000), and As You Like It (2006). He was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director for Henry V and for Best Adapted Screenplay for Hamlet.He has also starred in the television series Fortunes of War (1987), Shackleton (2002), and Wallander (2008–2016) and in the films Celebrity (1998), Wild Wild West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), as SS leader Reinhard Heydrich in Conspiracy (2001), 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), and as Sir Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn (2011), Dunkirk (2017), and Tenet (2020). He won an International Emmy Award for Wallander and a Primetime Emmy Award for Conspiracy, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for My Week with Marilyn.Branagh directed and starred in the romantic thriller Dead Again (1991), the horror film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), and the action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014). He directed and starred as Hercule Poirot in the mystery drama adaptations of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Death on the Nile (2022). 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).

Kenneth Branagh Top Movies and TV Shows in 2024

Chart List

1.	Oppenheimer	169,675
2.	A Haunting in Venice	4,392
3.	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	3,191
4.	Wallander	1,756
5.	Swan Song	1,483
6.	Tenet	510
7.	Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit	222
8.	Cinderella	180
9.	Dunkirk	148
10.	The Road to El Dorado	104
11.	Thor	92
12.	Frankenstein	80
13.	Much Ado About Nothing	50
14.	Belfast	39
15.	Valkyrie	16
16.	Wild Wild West	15
17.	Hamlet	10
18.	My Week with Marilyn	10
19.	All Is True	9
20.	Peter's Friends	8
21.	Artemis Fowl	0
22.	The Boat That Rocked	0
23.	Dead Again	0

Oppenheimer

Movie | United States | 07/19/2023 | Drama | World War II

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

8.9/10

94%

224,055

A Haunting in Venice

Movie | United States | 09/13/2023 | Crime | Murder

Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

6.5/10

78%

20,868

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Movie | United Kingdom | 11/03/2002 | Fantasy | Wizards

Everyones favorite novice wizard, Harry Potter, continues his high-flying adventures at Hogwarts. This time around, Harry ignores warnings not to return to school - that is, if he values his life - to investigate a mysterious series of attacks with Ron and Hermione.

7.4/10

82%

78,604

Wallander

TV Show | United Kingdom | 11/30/2008 | Crime | Crime Drama

This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling books by Henning Mankell.

7.8/10

88%

2,928

Swan Song

In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his wife and son from grief, he grapples with altering their fate.

6.8/10

93%

1,641

Tenet

Movie | United States | 08/22/2020 | Action | Spies

Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

7.3/10

69%

188,223

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Movie | United States | 01/17/2014 | Action | Spies

Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.

6.2/10

55%

2,247

Cinderella

Movie | United States | 03/13/2015 | Fantasy | Princesses

When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, Ellas fortunes begin to change after meeting a dashing stranger in the woods.

6.9/10

83%

2,268

Dunkirk

Movie | United Kingdom | 07/19/2017 | War | World War II

The miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, France, between May 26th and June 4th 1940, during the Battle of France in World War II.

7.8/10

92%

11,406

The Road to El Dorado

Movie | United States | 03/31/2000 | Animation | For Boys

After a failed swindle, two con-men end up with a map to El Dorado, the fabled \city of gold,\ and an unintended trip to the New World. Much to their surprise, the map does lead the pair to the mythical city, where the startled inhabitants promptly begin to worship them as gods. The only question is, do they take the worshipful natives for all they're worth, or is there a bit more to El Dorado than riches?

6.9/10

48%

1,706

Thor

Movie | United States | 04/21/2011 | Superhero | Marvel

Against his father Odin's will, The Mighty Thor - a powerful but arrogant warrior god - recklessly reignites an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. Once here, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.

7.0/10

77%

2,764

Frankenstein

Movie | United States | 11/04/1994 | Horror | Classic Horrors

Based on Mary Shelley's novel, \Frankenstein\ tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.

6.3/10

42%

116

Much Ado About Nothing

Movie | United Kingdom | 05/07/1993 | History | Kings and Queens

In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.

7.3/10

90%

112

Belfast

Movie | United Kingdom | 11/11/2021 | Drama | World War I

Follows a boy’s childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s in the Northern Ireland capital.

7.2/10

86%

4,858

Valkyrie

Movie | United States | 12/25/2008 | War | World War II

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.

7.1/10

62%

915

Wild Wild West

Movie | United States | 06/29/1999 | Adventure | Fantasy Adventure

Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President U.S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and master-of-disguise and inventor Artemus Gordon. The two must team up to thwart Loveless plans.

4.9/10

16%

110

Hamlet

Movie | United Kingdom | 12/25/1996 | Drama | Kings and Queens

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

7.7/10

95%

My Week with Marilyn

Movie | United States | 10/17/2011 | Drama | Showbusiness

Sir Laurence Olivier is making a movie in London. Young Colin Clark, an eager film student, wants to be involved and he navigates himself a job on the set. When film star Marilyn Monroe arrives for the start of shooting, all of London is excited to see the blonde bombshell, while Olivier is struggling to meet her many demands and acting ineptness, and Colin is intrigued by her. Colin's intrigue is met when Marilyn invites him into her inner world where she struggles with her fame, her beauty and her desire to be a great actress.

6.9/10

83%

All Is True

Movie | United Kingdom | 12/21/2018 | History | Kings and Queens

London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stops writing and returns to his hometown, where his wife Anne and daughters Judith and Susanna get surprised to hear he intends to stay there definitively, after two decades working in the capital, neglecting his sincere affections for them.

6.3/10

Peter's Friends

Movie | United Kingdom | 09/18/1992 | Comedy

It is New Year's weekend and the friends of Peter (Fry) gather at his newly inherited country house. Ten years ago, they all acted together in a Cambridge University student comedy troupe, but it's less clear how much they have in common now.Peter's friends are Andrew (Branagh), now a writer in Hollywood; married jingle writers Roger (Laurie) and Mary (Staunton); glamorous costume designer Sarah (Emmanuel); and eccentric Maggie (Thompson), who works in publishing. Cast in sharp relief to the university chums are Carol (Rudner), the American TV star wife of Andrew; and loutish Brian (Slattery), Sarah's very recently acquired lover. Law plays Peter's disapproving housekeeper, Vera; and Lowe, her son Paul. Briers appears in a cameo role as Peter's father.

7.0/10

65%

Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl is a 12-year-old genius and descendant of a long line of criminal masterminds. He soon finds himself in an epic battle against a race of powerful underground fairies who may be behind his father's disappearance.

4.3/10

5,862

The Boat That Rocked

Movie | United Kingdom | 04/01/2009 | Romance | Music

The Boat that Rocked is an ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government that, incomprehensibly, prefers jazz.

7.4/10

127

Dead Again

Movie | United States | 08/23/1991 | Thriller | Supernatural

In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac woman shows up at an orphanage and private eye Mike Church is called in to investigate. Under hypnosis both the woman and Church seem to have a strange link back to the Strauss murder.

6.8/10

82%

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