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Acting

Kenneth Branagh

Career: Active from 1982 to 2026, busiest in 1987 and 1998 with 6 main titles each.

Leading roles: 72
top three billing

Average score: 67/100

Highest rated: Anne Frank Remembered
88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 70 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Kenneth Branagh Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.3, average 5.4
Crime
2.5, average 3.6
Physical Comedy
1.6, average 2.4
Cringe Humor
1.4, average 2.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Drama 8
Visual Spectacle 6
Character-Driven 6
Social Commentary 5
Character Study 5
Ensemble Cast 4
Political Intrigue 4
Nostalgic 3
Educational 3
Family-Friendly 3
Historical Documentary 3
Coming-of-Age Story 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

116

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

3 titles

TV show · as Laird of Castle Drummoch

as (voice)

The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde

Screenplay, Director

2020s

15 titles · average score 66

Mayday

70

as Nikolai Ustinov

The Devil Wears Prada 2

68

as Stuart

Atonement

as Michael Reid

The King of Kings

63

as Charles Dickens (voice)

A Haunting in Venice

67

as Hercule Poirot

Oppenheimer

87

as Niels Bohr

Death on the Nile

58

as Hercule Poirot

Fireheart

62

as Shawn Nolan (voice)

This England

52

TV show · as Boris Johnson

Belfast

76

Writer, Director

Artemis Fowl

27

Producer, Director

Tenet

70

as Sator

2010s

18 titles · average score 69

All Is True

63

as William Shakespeare

Murder on the Orient Express

59

as Hercule Poirot

Dunkirk

85

as Commander Bolton

Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet

79

Director

Cinderella

72

Director

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

77

as Leontes

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

56

as Viktor Cherevin

Thor: The Dark World

62

Producer

London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder

80

as Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Thor

67

Director

My Week with Marilyn

71

as Sir Laurence Olivier

Prodigal

as Mark Snow

2000s

32 titles · average score 68

Valkyrie

63

as Henning von Tresckow

Wallander

79

TV show · as Kurt Wallander

Sleuth

51

as Other Man on T.V.

As You Like It

48

Writer, Director

Warm Springs

71

as Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

74

as Gilderoy Lockhart

Shackleton

74

TV show · as Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

Conspiracy

74

as Reinhard Heydrich

Walking with Beasts

80

TV show · as Narrator

The Road to El Dorado

60

as Miguel (voice)

The Ballad of Big Al

80

TV show · as Narrator

Love's Labour's Lost

49

as Berowne

1990s

24 titles · average score 67

Wild Wild West

37

as Dr. Arliss Loveless

Celebrity

50

as Lee Simon

Cold War

79

TV show

The Gingerbread Man

56

as Rick Magruder

The Proposition

60

as Father Michael McKinnon

Hamlet

86

as Prince Hamlet

Othello

67

as Iago

In the Bleak Midwinter

79

Writer, Director

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

50

as Victor Frankenstein

Much Ado About Nothing

79

as Benedick

Peter's Friends

68

as Andrew Benson

Dead Again

71

as Roman Strauss / Mike Church

1980s

22 titles · average score 69

Henry V

82

as Henry V

Look Back in Anger

81

as Jimmy Porter

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

72

Director, Stage Director

Strange Interlude

TV show · as Gordon Evans

Fortunes of War

70

TV show · as Guy Pringle

A Month in the Country

75

as James Moon

Lorna

as Billy Martin

Ghosts

as Oswald Alving

Coming Through

54

as D.H. Lawrence

The Boy in the Bush

TV show · as Jack Grant

A Coming to Terms for Billy

as Billy Martin

Too Late to Talk to Billy

as Billy Martin

1970s

1 title · average score 72

Play for Today

72

TV show

1960s

1 title · average score 72

Omnibus

72

TV show