Kenneth Branagh

Q: Has Kenneth Branagh won any major awards?

Kenneth Branagh has received numerous awards, including several BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe nominations. He has not won an Academy Award but has been nominated multiple times.

Q: What was Kenneth Branagh's first film?

Kenneth Branagh's first film role was in 'Henry V' (1989), where he also served as the director. This film marked his breakthrough in cinema.

Q: What is Kenneth Branagh's most notable role?

One of Kenneth Branagh's most notable roles is that of the titular character in 'Henry V', which showcased his talent for Shakespearean drama and established him as a leading actor.

Q: What is Kenneth Branagh's estimated net worth?

Kenneth Branagh's estimated net worth is approximately $60 million, largely attributed to his successful career in acting, directing, and producing.

Q: What genre is Kenneth Branagh most associated with?

Kenneth Branagh is most associated with dramatic and Shakespearean genres. He has directed and starred in numerous adaptations of Shakespeare's works.

Q: What is a notable milestone in Kenneth Branagh's career?

A notable milestone in Kenneth Branagh's career is his directorial debut with 'Henry V', which received critical acclaim and established his reputation in the film industry.

Q: How many children does Kenneth Branagh have?

Kenneth Branagh has one child, a son named Billy Branagh, with his wife Lindsay Brunnock.

Known for

Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

IMDb 6.5 / 10

2017 / Comedy, Crime / 109mins

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets poster

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

IMDb 7.4 / 10

2002 / Adventure, Family / 161 min

Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure...

Dunkirk (2017)

IMDb 7.8 / 10

2017 / Action, Drama / 106 min

The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German...

Name

Kenneth Branagh

Height

5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Born

10 December 1960, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Spouses

Lindsay Brunnock (2003–present)

Children

1 (Billy Branagh)

Parents

Frances (mother), William Branagh (father)

Estimated Net Worth

$60 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2027	Movie The Thomas Crown Affair In Europe, a bored young businessman decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information...	Unknown character	Not rated
2026	Movie Mayday When a U.S. Navy pilot on a top-secret mission during the Cold War gets trapped behind enemy lines, his only...	Nikolai Ustinov	Not rated
2026	Movie Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean Profiles the double Oscar winner, who helmed some of the most well-respected movies of all time, via never-before-seen archive and...	David Lean (voice)	Not rated
2026	Movie Atonement Based on Dexter Filkins’ resonant New Yorker article of the same name, about Marine Lu Lobello, haunted by memories of...	Michael Reid	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2026	Movie The Devil Wears Prada 2 Andy Sachs returns to Runway as Miranda Priestly navigates a new media landscape and Runway's position within. The duo reconnect...	Stuart	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2025	Movie Tea with Judi Dench Dame Judi Dench opens up her beautiful country home to long-time friend and sometime collaborator, Kenneth Branagh. From the sanctuary...	Self	Not rated
2025	TV The American Revolution The American Revolution was at once a war for independence, a war of conquest, a civil war, and a world...	(voice)	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2025	Movie The King of Kings Charles Dickens tells his young son Walter the greatest story ever told, and what begins as a bedtime tale becomes...	Charles Dickens (voice)	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2023	TV BLUE EYE SAMURAI Driven by a dream of revenge against those who made her an outcast in Edo-period Japan, a young warrior cuts...	Abijah Fowler (voice)	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2023	Movie A Haunting in Venice Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a...	Hercule Poirot	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2023	Movie Oppenheimer The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.	Niels Bohr	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2022	Movie Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba Reflecting Peter O'Toole's theatrical legacy, this feature documentary is structured into four acts, each introduced by a quote about O'Toole...	Self	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2022	Movie Denzel Washington: A Model American In 30 years of a deeply committed career and 50 roles, Denzel Washington, double-Oscar winner, placed the figure of the...	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2022	TV This England Inside the halls of power, Boris Johnson grapples with Covid-19, Brexit, and a controversial personal and political life during his...	Boris Johnson	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2022	TV Remembers… What are the secrets of our favourite TV shows? Famous names from both sides of the camera reflect on making...	Self	Not rated
2022	Movie Death on the Nile Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when...	Hercule Poirot	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2022	Movie Fireheart The film explores the world of firefighters in 1920s New York City and tells the story of a 16-year-old girl...	Shawn Nolan (voice)	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2020	Movie Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of ‘Tenet’ A look behind the scenes of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet.	Self	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2020	Movie Tenet Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys...	Sator	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2019	Movie Lost Lives This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.	Narrator	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2019	TV The Kelly Clarkson Show Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and...	Self	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2018	Movie All Is True London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected,...	William Shakespeare	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2018	Movie Avengers: Infinity War As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero...	Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2017	Movie Murder on the Orient Express Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.	Hercule Poirot	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2017	Movie Dunkirk The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and...	Commander Bolton	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2016	Movie Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborneʼs modern classic conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls...	Archie Rice	TMDB 3.5 / 10
2016	Movie Mindhorn A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with...	Himself	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2015	Movie Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale A jealous king jeopardizes his family, friendships and succession.	Leontes	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2015	TV The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the #1 show in late...	Self	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2014	Movie Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe A look at the story behind Marvel Studios and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage from all...	Self	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2014	TV Late Night with Seth Meyers Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live's" longest serving anchor on the show's wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as...	Self	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2014	Movie Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist...	Viktor Cherevin	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2013	Movie National Theatre Live: Macbeth Performing from within the walls of a deconsecrated Manchester church, Kenneth Branagh takes the lead role in this ambitious production...	Macbeth	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2012	Movie Stars in Shorts Seven short films, all of which feature name actors, including Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Colin Firth, Lily Tomlin, Keira Knightley,...	Mark Snow	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2012	Movie Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe Feature-length documentary about the rise of Marvel Studios and their films leading up to, and including, The Avengers.	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2012	Movie London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder The London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony took place at 9pm on 27 July 2012. Titled 'Isles of Wonder', the...	Isambard Kingdom Brunel	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2011	Movie My Week with Marilyn London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered...	Sir Laurence Olivier	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2011	Movie Discovering Hamlet Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought...	Hamlet (archive footage)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2011	Movie Thor: From Asgard to Earth A strong and fast-paced overview piece that looks at the picture's set design, the inspirations from various versions of the...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2011	Movie Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope A behind-the-scenes look at San Diego Comic-Con, the world's largest comic book convention, and the fans who attend every year.	Self	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2011	Movie Prodigal A father seeks to rescue his daughter from two organizations intent on acquiring her "special" abilities.	Mark Snow	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2010	Movie With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story At 89 years old, Stan Lee's name appears on more than one BILLION comics in 75 countries in 25 languages....	Self	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2009	Movie A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics looks at Hollywood’s biggest screen spectaculars from all sides, including...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2009	Movie A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers A look at thrillers from all sides, including different types of thrillers and the stylistic tools filmmakers use to give...	Self	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2009	Movie 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2009	Movie The Boat That Rocked When a group of rebellious deejays decides to defy the ban on government-censored music, they take to the seas to...	Dormandy	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2008	Movie Valkyrie Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the...	Henning von Tresckow	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2008	TV Wallander This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence...	Kurt Wallander	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2008	TV 10 Days to War A series of short dramas about the countdown to war in Iraq.	Colonel Tim Collins	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2008	Movie Alien Love Triangle Physics lecturer Steven Chesterman finally realizes his long cherished dream of perfecting a teleportation device and rushes home to tell...	Steven Chesterman	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2007	Movie Sleuth Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle come together...	Other Man on T.V.	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2007	Movie Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out was a one-off, one-hour documentary/biography about Stephen Fry released in 2007 by the BBC, celebrating...	Self	Not rated
2007	Movie James Ellis: An Actor's Life Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.	Himself	Not rated
2007	TV The Graham Norton Show Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The...	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2007	TV The Graham Norton Show Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The...	Self - Guest	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2006	TV El hormiguero El Hormiguero is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and politics running since September...	Self	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2006	Movie As You Like It Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is...	Self (voice)	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2005	TV Walking with Monsters A three-part British documentary film series about life in the Paleozoic, bringing to life extinct arthropods, fish, amphibians, synapsids, and...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2005	Movie Walking with Monsters Many people think of the dinosaurs as the first inhabitants of the earth, but this prequel to the acclaimed "Walking...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2005	Movie Warm Springs Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods...	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2005	Movie The Goebbels Experiment The Nazi propaganda mastermind behind Hitler speaks in first person as actor Kenneth Branagh reads pages of the diary kept...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2005	TV The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson,...	Self	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2004	Movie Five Children and It The Psammead is an 'it', an ancient, ill-tempered sand-fairy with a spider-shaped body, bat-like ears, and snail-like eyes. It is...	Uncle Albert	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2004	Movie The Magic Touch of Harry Potter A 2004 documentary on the first three “Harry Potter” films detailing the behind-the-scenes journey of making them.	Self	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2004	Movie Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic Documentary about the legendary American film director from his introduction to the film industry in its early years to his...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2003	TV The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to just Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres.	Self	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2003	TV World War I in Colour Documentary narrated by Kenneth Branagh consisting of colourised footage from World War I.	Narrator	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2003	Movie Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence This documentary follows Phillip Noyce as he tries to find three aboriginal girls able to act in his film Rabbit...	Himself / Narrator	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2003	TV Real Time with Bill Maher Each week Bill Maher surrounds himself with a panel of guests which include politicians, actors, comedians, musicians and the like...	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2002	Movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second...	Gilderoy Lockhart	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2002	Movie How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is...	Peter McGowan	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2002	Movie The Tramp and the Dictator A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2002	Movie Rabbit-Proof Fence In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set...	A. O. Neville	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2002	TV Shackleton The true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead...	Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2001	Movie The Beasts Within A closer look at the science of Human evolution, and how much early humans might've contributed to the extinction of...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2001	Movie Triumph of the Beasts A deeper look at the science behind Walking with Beasts (2001)	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2001	TV Walking with Beasts Walking With Prehistoric Beasts explores how life on earth first began. Using real footage, the series goes inside the body...	Narrator	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2001	Movie Conspiracy At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called...	Reinhard Heydrich	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2001	Movie Schneider's 2nd Stage Which way lies madness? A man named Joe drives his Land Rover into a remote field. The purpose of his...	Joseph Barnett	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2000	TV Big Al 145 million years ago an adolescent Allosaurus lay down to die in a dried up river bed. In 1991 scientists...	Narrator	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2000	Movie Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films,...	Self / Narrator	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2000	Movie The Book That Wrote Itself "Vincent believes he has written the great Irish novel. When publishers turn it down he decides to prove them wrong...	Kenneth Branagh	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2000	Movie The Road to El Dorado Stowing away after a failed con, a pair of swindlers end up on El Dorado, the fabled "city of gold",...	Miguel (voice)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2000	Movie Love's Labour's Lost A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a...	Berowne	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2000	Movie The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs A behind-the-scenes look at how the animators, sculptors and palaeontologists, using the latest state-of-the-art animatronics and computer graphics, collaborated to...	Narrator	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2000	Movie Altman on His Own Terms A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. The genius director who...	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1999	Movie Wild Wild West: Evil Devices A documentary taking a look at the giant spider and other "bad guy" weapons in the film	Himself	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1999	Movie Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies Interviews with the actresses who are the character's assistants in the movie	Himself	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1999	Movie The Periwig-Maker In this Oscar-nominated short, a man seals himself off in 17th century plague-infested London to escape the danger of infection....	Periwig-maker (voice)	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1999	Movie IMAX: Galapagos 3D Retrace the groundbreaking footsteps of Charles Darwin with a young scientist as she explores the biological diversity and unique geologic...	Narrator	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1999	TV Walking with Dinosaurs Combining fact and informed speculation with cutting-edge computer graphics and animatronics effects, the series set out to create the most...	Self - Narrator (voice)	TMDB 8.2 / 10
1999	Movie Wild Wild West Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President Ulysses S. Grant. Only two...	Dr. Arliss Loveless	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1999	Movie It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West' This is a promotional behind the scenes featurette that originally appeared on HBO. A lot of the usual interviews and...	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1999	Movie The Theory of Flight Richard is assigned public service after crashing his homemade aircraft, leading him to meet Jane, a young woman dying of...	Richard	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1998	Movie The Dance of Shiva In the trenches of the Western Front in 1915, a British army chaplain is forced to question his faith as...	Colonel Evans	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1998	Movie Universal Horror A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.	Narrator	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1998	Movie Celebrity The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and...	Lee Simon	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1998	TV Cold War A 24-part series which deals with the relations between the United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies between...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1998	Movie The Proposition Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the...	Father Michael McKinnon	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1998	Movie The Gingerbread Man A successful Savannah defense attorney gets romantically involved with a sexy, mysterious waitress troubled by psychopaths and dark family secrets.	Rick Magruder	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1998	TV Parkinson Michael Parkinson returns for a second run of his iconic talk show.	Self	Not rated
1997	TV The View ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro...	Self	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1997	TV Leute heute	Self	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1996	Movie Hamlet Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle....	Prince Hamlet	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1996	Movie Looking for Richard Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of...	Self - Interviewee	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1995	Movie Othello The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in...	Iago	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1995	Movie Shadow of a Gunman The first part of O'Casey's "The Dublin Trilogy". Set in 1920, as the War of Independence rages, "Shadow of a...	Donal Davoren	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1995	TV Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood The origin of European cinema, from its infancy as a novelty created by French inventors Auguste and Louis Lumière to...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1995	Movie Anne Frank Remembered Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this Academy Award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank...	Narration (voice)	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1994	Movie Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with...	Victor Frankenstein	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1994	Movie It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein Mary Shelley created a monster in 1818, and writers, actors and filmmakers haven't been able to get enough of it...	Self	TMDB 8.8 / 10
1993	TV Late Night with Conan O'Brien Stepping into the late-late slot vacated by David Letterman, Conan O'Brien stars in a show that far outdoes its competition...	Self - Guest	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1993	Movie Much Ado About Nothing In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before...	Benedick	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1993	Movie Swing Kids The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the...	Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1992	Movie Peter's Friends After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and...	Andrew Benson	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1992	Movie Symphony for the Spire An impressive lineup of international stars puts on a spectacular "Symphony for the Spire" to kick off the world-famous Salisbury...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1991	TV Performance An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.	Donal Davoren	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1991	Movie Dead Again In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes...	Roman Strauss / Mike Church	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1990	Movie Discovering Hamlet IN 1988, rising star Kenneth Branagh tackled the role of Shakespeare’s prince of Denmark for the first time in his...	Himself / Hamlet	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1989	Movie Look Back in Anger Look Back in Anger is a love triangle involving the brilliant-but-disaffected young Jimmy Porter, his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter,...	Jimmy Porter	TMDB 9.3 / 10
1989	Movie Henry V In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the...	Henry V	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1988	TV Thompson Thompson is a 1988 British TV variety series hosted by actress Emma Thompson the show also starred Imelda Staunton, Kenneth...	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1988	TV American Experience TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1988	Movie Thames Wallah Documentary on David Triggs, who works for Thames Water, and is also a frequent visitor to India, as a consultant...	Narrator	Not rated
1988	TV Strange Interlude Adaptation of an experimental play in nine acts by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Strange Interlude makes extensive use of a...	Gordon Evans	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1987	TV Fortunes of War English literature lecturer Guy Pringle and his wife Harriet navigate the early years of WWII in Bucharest. They become involved...	Guy Pringle	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1987	Movie A Month in the Country A destitute WWI veteran is hired to help carry out restoration work on a medieval mural in a rural Yorkshire...	James Moon	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1987	Movie High Season On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage...	Rick	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1987	Movie Ghosts Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is...	Oswald Alving	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1987	Movie Lorna In the follow-up to Graham Reid’s trilogy of ‘Billy’ plays, Billy's sister Lorna Martin is left to care for their...	Billy Martin	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1987	Movie The Lady's Not For Burning A war and world weary soldier tries to talk a witch-hunting cleric into hanging him; he is shaken from his...	Thomas Mendip	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1985	Movie Coming Through While researching the work of author D.H. Lawrence (Kenneth Branagh), Kate (Alison Steadman) begins a romance with a fellow academic,...	D.H. Lawrence	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1985	TV Theatre Night A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays.	Oswald Alving	Not rated
1984	Movie A Coming to Terms for Billy Belfast, 1980: July, the marching season ... Norman Martin, away for two years, returns with his 'English woman', Mavis. How...	Billy Martin	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1984	TV The Boy in the Bush n the 1880s, Jack Grant, a young Englishman, has been sent by his parents to make a new life in...	Jack Grant	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1983	Movie A Matter of Choice for Billy Belfast 1978: the Martin family, a year on. Norman is away in England, and his eldest son, Billy, and daughter,...	Billy Martin	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1983	Movie To the Lighthouse A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a...	Charles Tansley	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1982	Movie Easter 2016 Set in 2016 prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated teacher training college. A...	Student	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1982	TV Wogan Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.	Self	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1982	Movie Too Late to Talk to Billy Relationships are strained in a Belfast family, particularly between a father and his son. First in a multi-year trilogy.	Billy Martin	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1981	Movie Chariots of Fire In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris...	Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1970	TV Play for Today Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1967	TV Omnibus Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1962	TV The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1956	TV Tony Awards The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway...	Self	Not rated
1953	TV The Oscars An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1944	TV Golden Globe Awards An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press...	Self - Nominee	TMDB 6.9 / 10
TBA	Movie The Goblin Plot TBA. Being described as Ted meets E.T.	(voice)	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2023	Movie A Haunting in Venice Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2023	Movie A Haunting in Venice Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2022	Movie Death on the Nile Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2022	Movie Death on the Nile Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2021	Movie Belfast Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2021	Movie Belfast Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and...	Producer Production	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2021	Movie Belfast Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2020	Movie Artemis Fowl Artemis Fowl is a 12-year-old genius and descendant of a long line of criminal masterminds. He soon finds himself in...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2020	Movie Artemis Fowl Artemis Fowl is a 12-year-old genius and descendant of a long line of criminal masterminds. He soon finds himself in...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2018	Movie All Is True London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected,...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2018	Movie All Is True London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected,...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2017	Movie Murder on the Orient Express Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.	Producer Production	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2017	Movie Murder on the Orient Express Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.	Director Directing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2016	Movie Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet Live theatre presentation of Shakespeare's classic play about two teenagers from warring families whose love affair ends in tragedy.	Director Directing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2015	Movie Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale A jealous king jeopardizes his family, friendships and succession.	Director Directing	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2015	Movie Cinderella When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters....	Director Directing	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2014	Movie Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2013	Movie Thor: The Dark World Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2013	Movie National Theatre Live: Macbeth Performing from within the walls of a deconsecrated Manchester church, Kenneth Branagh takes the lead role in this ambitious production...	Stage Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2011	Movie Thor Against his father Odin's will, The Mighty Thor - a powerful but arrogant warrior god - recklessly reignites an ancient...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2008	TV Wallander This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2007	Movie Sleuth Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle come together...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2007	Movie Sleuth Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle come together...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2006	Movie The Magic Flute During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2006	Movie The Magic Flute During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2006	Movie The Magic Flute During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night...	Adaptation Writing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2006	Movie The Magic Flute During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2006	Movie As You Like It Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2006	Movie As You Like It Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2006	Movie As You Like It Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2005	TV Walking with Monsters A three-part British documentary film series about life in the Paleozoic, bringing to life extinct arthropods, fish, amphibians, synapsids, and...	Acting Double Crew	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2003	Movie Listening At a spa where talking is forbidden, an emotionally distraught woman finds solace in the company of a kind man...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2003	Movie Listening At a spa where talking is forbidden, an emotionally distraught woman finds solace in the company of a kind man...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2000	Movie Love's Labour's Lost A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2000	Movie Love's Labour's Lost A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2000	Movie Love's Labour's Lost A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2000	Movie Love's Labour's Lost A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1996	Movie Hamlet Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle....	Adaptation Writing	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1996	Movie Hamlet Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle....	Director Directing	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1995	Movie In the Bleak Midwinter Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1995	Movie In the Bleak Midwinter Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1994	Movie Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1994	Movie Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with...	Co-Producer Production	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1993	Movie Much Ado About Nothing In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1993	Movie Much Ado About Nothing In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1993	Movie Much Ado About Nothing In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1992	Movie Peter's Friends After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1992	Movie Peter's Friends After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1992	Movie Swan Song An aging actor remembers his past stage triumphs and contemplates a dim future on the stage of an empty theatre....	Director Directing	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1991	Movie Dead Again In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1989	Movie Henry V In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1989	Movie Henry V In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1988	Movie Twelfth Night, or What You Will The tale begins when a brother and sister are separated in a shipwreck, but survive to be washed up on...	Stage Director Directing	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1988	Movie Twelfth Night, or What You Will The tale begins when a brother and sister are separated in a shipwreck, but survive to be washed up on...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.4 / 10
TBA	Movie The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde Described as a contemporary psychological thriller. Plot TBA.	Screenplay Writing	Not rated
TBA	Movie The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde Described as a contemporary psychological thriller. Plot TBA.	Director Directing	Not rated

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Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Dunkirk (2017)

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