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Kenneth Branagh
Born 10 December 1960 65 years old Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK Who else is 65? → TMDB ↗
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 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.
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6age in their first credit on record (1967)
60years on screen and counting
6credits in 1987, their busiest year
93dated credits on record
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Movie credits
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The Goblin
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Age: 66 The Thomas Crown Affair
2027
Age: 65 Mayday
2026as Nikolai Ustinov
Age: 65 Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
2026as David Lean (voice)
Age: 65 Atonement
2026as Michael Reid
Age: 65 The Devil Wears Prada 2
2026as Stuart
Age: 64 The King of Kings
2025as Charles Dickens (voice)
Age: 62 A Haunting in Venice
2023as Hercule Poirot
Age: 62 Oppenheimer
2023as Niels Bohr
Age: 61 Death on the Nile
2022as Hercule Poirot
Age: 61 Fireheart
2022as Shawn Nolan (voice)
Age: 59 Tenet
2020as Sator
Age: 58 All Is True
2018as William Shakespeare
Age: 57 Avengers: Infinity War
2018as Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
Age: 56 Murder on the Orient Express
2017as Hercule Poirot
Age: 56 Dunkirk
2017as Commander Bolton
Age: 55 Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
2016as Archie Rice
Age: 54 Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
2015as Leontes
Age: 53 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2014as Viktor Cherevin
Age: 52 National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2013as Macbeth
Age: 51 Stars in Shorts
2012as Mark Snow
Age: 51 London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
2012as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Age: 50 My Week with Marilyn
2011as Sir Laurence Olivier
Age: 50 Discovering Hamlet
2011as Hamlet (archive footage)
Age: 50 Prodigal
2011as Mark Snow
Age: 48 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009as Narrator (voice)
Age: 48 The Boat That Rocked
2009as Dormandy
Age: 48 Valkyrie
2008as Henning von Tresckow
Age: 47 Alien Love Triangle
2008as Steven Chesterman
Age: 46 Sleuth
2007as Other Man on T.V.
Age: 44 Walking with Monsters
2005as Narrator (voice)
Age: 44 Warm Springs
2005as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Age: 44 The Goebbels Experiment
2005as Narrator (voice)
Age: 43 Five Children and It
2004as Uncle Albert
Age: 43 Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
2004as Narrator (voice)
Age: 41 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002as Gilderoy Lockhart
Age: 41 How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
2002as Peter McGowan
Age: 41 The Tramp and the Dictator
2002as Narrator (voice)
Age: 41 Rabbit-Proof Fence
2002as A. O. Neville
Age: 40 The Beasts Within
2001as Narrator (voice)
Age: 40 Triumph of the Beasts
2001as Narrator (voice)
Age: 40 Conspiracy
2001as Reinhard Heydrich
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Age: 40 Schneider's 2nd Stage
2001as Joseph Barnett
Age: 39 The Book That Wrote Itself
2000as Kenneth Branagh
Age: 39 The Road to El Dorado
2000as Miguel (voice)
Age: 39 Love's Labour's Lost
2000as Berowne
Age: 38 The Periwig-Maker
1999as Periwig-maker (voice)
Age: 38 Wild Wild West
1999as Dr. Arliss Loveless
Age: 38 The Theory of Flight
1999as Richard
Age: 38 The Dance of Shiva
1998as Colonel Evans
Age: 37 Celebrity
1998as Lee Simon
Age: 37 The Proposition
1998as Father Michael McKinnon
Age: 37 The Gingerbread Man
1998as Rick Magruder
Age: 36 Hamlet
1996as Prince Hamlet
Age: 35 Othello
1995as Iago
Age: 34 Shadow of a Gunman
1995as Donal Davoren
Age: 34 Anne Frank Remembered
1995as Narration (voice)
Age: 33 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994as Victor Frankenstein
Age: 32 Much Ado About Nothing
1993as Benedick
Age: 32 Swing Kids
1993as Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)
Age: 31 Peter's Friends
1992as Andrew Benson
Age: 31 Symphony for the Spire
1992
Age: 30 Dead Again
1991as Roman Strauss / Mike Church
Age: 29 Look Back in Anger
1989as Jimmy Porter
Age: 28 Henry V
1989as Henry V
Age: 26 A Month in the Country
1987as James Moon
Age: 26 High Season
1987as Rick
Age: 26 Ghosts
1987as Oswald Alving
Age: 26 Lorna
1987as Billy Martin
Age: 26 The Lady's Not For Burning
1987as Thomas Mendip
Age: 25 Coming Through
1985as D.H. Lawrence
Age: 23 A Coming to Terms for Billy
1984as Billy Martin
Age: 22 A Matter of Choice for Billy
1983as Billy Martin
Age: 22 To the Lighthouse
1983as Charles Tansley
Age: 21 Easter 2016
1982as Student
Age: 21 Too Late to Talk to Billy
1982as Billy Martin
Age: 20 Chariots of Fire
1981as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
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TV credits
Age: 64 The American Revolution
2025as (voice)
Age: 62 BLUE EYE SAMURAI
2023as Abijah Fowler (voice)
Age: 61 This England
2022as Boris Johnson
Age: 47 Wallander
2008as Kurt Wallander
Age: 47 10 Days to War
2008as Colonel Tim Collins
Age: 44 Walking with Monsters
2005as Narrator (voice)
Age: 41 Shackleton
2002as Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
Age: 37 Cold War
1998
Age: 34 Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
1995
Age: 30 Performance
1991as Donal Davoren
Age: 27 American Experience
1988as Narrator (voice)
Age: 27 Strange Interlude
1988as Gordon Evans
Age: 26 Fortunes of War
1987as Guy Pringle
Age: 24 Theatre Night
1985as Oswald Alving
Age: 23 The Boy in the Bush
1984as Jack Grant
Age: 9 Play for Today
1970
Age: 6