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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
Major Konstantin Ermakov
for Major Konstantin Ermakov in City of Terror: Strings of Darkness - Season 1
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Serving as a direct sequel to both Sins Past and The Keeper, Strings of Darkness is a spiritual successor to City of Terror, with Tapp taking on a Damien-like role and, together with his new partner, embarking on a mission of stopping the mysterious Puppeteer from establishing global anarchy. In season 1, the story is divided into two distinct parts. The L.A. storyline focuses on Tapp and Tracy dealing with the murder of Mr. Black, which takes them on a wild goose chase, seemingly orchestrated by the Angels, the city's most powerful gang. This part of the story also introduces the city's administration, a small group of street thugs, led by a dealer named Ellis, as well as Mr. Black's family - his mother Alexandra and half-brother Julian. The Moscow storyline follows Sergei, Scott, Patar and Konstantin as they are trying to root out a traitor and figure out the identity of Metalface, a mysterious assassin targeting their agents. This part of the story introduces Lana, TT's sister who was a part of the Angels and has arrived to Moscow to look for Carmella, who was a fellow Angel. Far from all of this, in a Siberian jail, Vasily makes an alliance with a former crime lord named Boris.
