Kenneth Branagh is an actor, director and screenwriter, knighted in 2012, who trained at RADA and served as its president from 2015 to 2024. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984 and built his reputation with film adaptations of Shakespeare, directing and starring in Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello and Hamlet. He later played Hercule Poirot in a series of Agatha Christie films and won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the semi-autobiographical Belfast (2021). On television he starred in Fortunes of War, Shackleton and Conspiracy, won an International Emmy for Wallander (2008-2016), in which he plays the title role and is also an executive producer.
2008 · 4 seasons · BBC
