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Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is a Northern Irish 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. Branagh has directed and starred in several 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 was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director for Henry V and Best Adapted Screenplay for Hamlet. He directed Swan Song (1992), which earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. He also directed Peter's Friends (1992), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Thor (2011), and Cinderella (2015). For his semi-autobiographical film Belfast (2021), he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Director and won Best Original Screenplay. Branagh directed and starred as Hercule Poirot in the Hercule Poirot film series (2017–present). 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), 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 played supporting roles in Christopher Nolan's films Dunkirk (2017), Tenet (2020), and Oppenheimer (2023). Branagh has starred in the BBC1 series Fortunes of War (1987), the Channel 4 series Shackleton (2002), the television film Warm Springs (2005), and the BBC One series Wallander (2008–2016). He received a Primetime Emmy Award and an International Emmy Award for Best Actor for portraying SS leader Reinhard Heydrich in the HBO film Conspiracy (2001).
For hundreds of years, Atlantis remained hidden from the rest of the world since it sank to the bottom of the sea until its new king arrived: Arthur Curry, the cross between an Atlantean and a Human who became the king of the Seven Seas and he has secretly helped his two worlds from all threats like when he stopped Captain Hyde's pirates where only his son David managed to survive and witness the protector of the sea. Now Arthur who is known as Aquaman wants to re-unite the two worlds to which he belongs. Stephen Shin has helped Arthur with everything necessary for Atlantis to be seen as a nation again in the eyes of the Earth by creating an audience with the UN, David Hyde now known as Black Manta wants to show the true dangers of the ocean as the Atlanteans since thanks to Aquaman he lost everything, Black Manta sends his new group of pirates known as N.E.M.O. with which he takes Stephen Shin as a prisoner to help him show the world all the risks of Atlantis or if he does not end his life and that of his family, so Stephen under threat is taken to the UN meeting where Stephen in As he was going to speak ill of the Atlanteans, he asks Arthur to protect his family and continues with the original presentation because he would not spoil the effort of years of investigation and he knew that Arthur would keep his word so David kills Stephen shot away and falls in front of the UN members.
