
Age: 65
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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).

Kenneth Branagh

Jim Gordon
for Jim Gordon in Batman The Brave & The Bold
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Un multimillonario queda huérfano tras el fallecimiento de sus padres cuando era niño, dejándolo a cargo de su mayordomo Alfred Pennyworth. Como la mayoría de los jóvenes que se ven con tanto dinero a tan temprana edad, Bruce trata de averiguar quién es y qué quiere llegar a ser. Bruce también está encontrando su camino con su primer amor, Barbara Gordon, y juntos luchan por su amor con compromiso. Cuando Bruce descubre un misterioso maletín que perteneció a su padre, comienza la búsqueda para entender qué hay detrás del Proyecto Arkham y por qué fueron a asesinar a sus padres, una búsqueda que le lleva al laboratorio de Kirk Langstrom, el mejor amigo de su padre y científico ex colaborador para Wayne Enterprises, ahora en Arkham. Mientras Batman se encuentra en plena colisión con el alter-ego de Langstrom, Man-Bat (después de inyectarse ADN de murciélago para curar su sordera), Bruce hará elecciones que alterarán sus opciones para usar sus artilugios y darán forma a un destino heroico.