Age: 65
male
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
Alfred Pennyworth
for Alfred Pennyworth in Joker Sequel
Suggested by dagenspear
Here are the ideas for this that God blessed me with: Over 10 years after the first movie, Arthur has been declared sane and released from Arkham, back onto the streets of Gotham. Meanwhile Bruce has returned and, filled with rage at the death of his parents, hates Arthur and sees him as the cause for all his pain. Arthur feels psychological pressure (from those who treat him with disgust and contempt and those who adore him for committing those acts of murder), and from the understanding that in the years since this event happened, he, by the large public, has been forgotten about, this enraging him. His art therapy manifesting as Bruce Wayne, with blood on his face (that was splattered on it when his parents were shot), blood that increasingly across his art work takes over Bruce's face more and more, visually becoming his face. Arthur even seeing brief hallucinations of Sophie, going to her apartment eventually, to find out that she no longer lives there and is thought to have taken off with her daughter without informing anyone, due to the danger of the Gotham riots (no one knowing for sure, to maintain the uncertainty of the events of the first movie). His paranoia grows when he feels he's being followed by some mobsters. Arthur goes missing around this time. This all culminating in a confrontation between Batman and Red Hood One.
