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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
Septimus Pretorius
for Septimus Pretorius in Mr. & Mrs. Frankenstein
Suggested by dej2k
Ten years after the raging fire that killed their "father" Victor Frankenstein, the monster and his bride — having taken the names of Adam and Eve — are living in London, hopelessly in love, working as private eyes and trying to keep a low profile. However, fate brings them back together with the sinister Septimus Pretorius, the man responsible for the fire that claimed Frankenstein's life and for kidnapping Frankenstein's wife Elizabeth. Yearning to be seen as a god and to overthrow the human race, Pretorius promises to succeed where Frankenstein failed, using Elizabeth as a means of kickstarting a new series of twisted experiments. Seeking revenge for their creator's death and redemption for failing to protect Elizabeth, Adam and Eve set out to follow his trail and put a stop to him once and for all, all the while being chased down by crazed police officer Ludwig Niemann, whose sister Elsa was accidentally killed by Adam years prior.
