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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
Dr. Sidney Sloan
for Dr. Sidney Sloan in The Mummy’s Curse
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1200’s BC, Egypt. An enslaved boy rises to the position of high priest in Thebes, taking on the name Imhotep. Despite his best efforts, he cannot save his family, nor help his people. His only comfort was the love of Anck-su-namun, the Pharaoh’s mistress. When the affair is discovered, Anck-su-namun claims Inhotep forced himself on her. Enraged, Imhotep kills her and then tries to kill the Pharaoh but fails. For this, Imhotep is buried alive, and to remind him of his place, he is cursed to obey the commands of anyone holding the golden book of Amun-Ra, the book of the dead. An eternal slave, even after death. 1930’s, Cairo. Ardath Bey, a disgraced historian, is forced to work for foreign archeologists and grave robbers, pillaging once-sacred sites. On one such expedition, Bey discovers the book of the dead, which is used to reanimate Imhotep before it is carelessly destroyed. The cursed man now roams free, but immortal. Desiring nothing more than death, Imhotep rampages through his unfamiliar settings, agonizing and seeking a way to break the Pharaoh’s curse once and for all.
