Kenneth Branagh filmography

Kenneth Branagh filmography

Film	45
Television	23
Narrating	16
Theatre	19

The following is the filmography for actor, director, producer and screenwriter Kenneth Branagh.

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

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
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	Swing Kids	Herr Knopp, Gestapo	Uncredited
	Much Ado About Nothing	Benedick
1994	Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	Victor Frankenstein
1995	Othello	Iago
1996	Hamlet	Prince Hamlet
1998	The Gingerbread Man	Rick Magruder
	The Proposition	Father Michael McKinnon
	The Theory of Flight	Richard
	Celebrity	Lee Simon
	The Dance of the Shiva	Colonel Evans	Short film	[1]
1999	Alien Love Triangle	Steven Chesterman
	Wild Wild West	Dr. Arliss Loveless
	Periwig Maker	The Periwig Maker	Short film
2000	Love's Labour's Lost	Berowne
	The Road to El Dorado	Miguel	Voice
	How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog	Peter McGowen
2001	Schneider's 2nd Stage	Joseph Barnett	Short film
	Conspiracy	Reinhard Heydrich
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]
2025	The King of Kings	Charles Dickens	Voice	[5]
2026	The Devil Wears Prada 2 †	TBA	Post-production	[6]
2027	The Thomas Crown Affair †	TBA	Post-production	[7]
TBA	Mayday †	TBA	Post-production	[8]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
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
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	[9]
2023	Blue Eye Samurai	Abijah Fowler	Voice, series regular	[10]
2025	The American Revolution	Thomas Gage & Richard Howe	Voice; docuseries

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1982	Another Country	Tommy Judd	Queen's Theatre, West End	[11]
1984	Henry V	Henry V	Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon	[12]
	Golden Girls	Mike Bassett	The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon
	Hamlet	Laertes	Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
	Love's Labour's Lost	King of Navarre		[13]
	Across The Roaring Hill	Performer	The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon
1985	Hamlet	Laertes	Theatre Royal, Newcastle-under-Tyne
	Henry V	Henry V
	Love's Labour's Lost	King of Navarre
	Golden Girls	Mike Bassett	Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
	Across The Roaring Hill	Performer
	Hamlet	Laertes	Barbican Theatre, London	[14]
	Henry V	Henry V
	The Glass Maze	Performer	Almeida Theatre, London
	Love's Labour's Lost	King of Navarre	Barbican Theatre, London
	Doom Doom Doom Doom	Denis	Almeida Theatre, London
1988	As You Like It	Touchstone	Birmingham Repertory Theatre
	Much Ado About Nothing	Benedick
	Hamlet	Hamlet
	As You Like It	Touchstone	Phoenix Theatre, West End	[15]
	Much Ado About Nothing	Benedick
	Hamlet	Hamlet
1990	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Quince	Dominion Theatre, West End	[16]
	King Lear	Edgar		[17]
1992	Coriolanus	Coriolanus	Chichester Festival Theatre	[18]
1992	Hamlet	Hamlet	Barbican Theatre, London	[19]
1993			Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
2003	Edmond	Edmond	Olivier Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London	[20]
2008	Ivanov	Nikolai Ivanov	Wyndham's Theatre, West End	[21]
2011	The Painkiller	Ralph	Lyric Theatre, Belfast	[22]
2013	Macbeth	Macbeth	Campfield Market Hall, UK	[23]
2014			Park Avenue Armory, Off-Broadway	[24]
2016	The Winter's Tale	Leontes	Garrick Theatre, West End	[25]
	Harlequinade	Arthur Gosport		[26]
	The Painkiller	Ralph		[27]
	The Entertainer	Archie Rice		[28]
2023	King Lear	King Lear	Wyndham's Theatre, West End	[29]
2024			The Shed, Off-Broadway	[30]
2026	The Tempest	Prospero	Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon	[31]
	The Cherry Orchard	Lopakhin	Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

Narrator

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
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	[32]
	World War 1 in Colour	6 episodes
2006	The American Experience	Episode: "The Man Behind Hitler"
2011	A Poem is...	3 episodes

As director

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes	Ref.
1989	Henry V	Yes	Yes	No
1991	Dead Again	Yes	No	No
1992	Swan Song	Yes	No	No	Short film
	Peter's Friends	Yes	No	Yes
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		[33]
2023	A Haunting in Venice	Yes	No	Yes
TBA	The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde †	Yes	Yes	Yes	Filming

Theatre

Year	Title	Venue	Notes	Ref.
2001	The Play What I Wrote	Liverpool Playhouse		[34]
		Wyndham's Theatre, West End		[35]
2003		Lyceum Theatre, Broadway		[36]
2013	Macbeth	Campfield Market Hall, UK	with Rob Ashford
2014		Park Avenue Armory, Off-Broadway
2015	The Winter's Tale	Garrick Theatre, West End
	Harlequinade / All On Her Own
2016	Romeo and Juliet

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Kenneth Branagh

References

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External links

• Kenneth Branagh at IMDb