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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
Odin
for Odin in Thor: Betrayal - Film 1 Phase 3 (My MCU)
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Synopsis: Thor has been on the throne for several months now. He has ruled better than Loki did, but he still has a lot to learn. His decisions are usually not the wisest, but he gets help from his father and Jane Foster who has moved in with Thor at Asgard. At the same time as Thor has been sitting on the throne, a jealous Loki has sat in the shadows and forged a plan together with Thanos on how to destroy Thor and rule the country together. But that's not the only reason Thanos helps Loki, he has been told that the Tesseract has once again returned to Asgard. One day, the three warriors announce that a tall and powerful woman has terrorized, plundered and destroyed large parts of Midgard and is probably on her way into Asgard. This makes Thor anxious and thoughtful and he decides to have a chat with Odin. He asks his father if he knows who this powerful woman is, and Odin explains everything he knows. He explains that this is his power-hungry sister Hela who he expelled and banished from Asgard centuries ago. She had been trying to get into the kingdom ever since, and now it seems she's succeeded. Thor thanks for the info, and just as he is about to leave, Odin says "The Ragnarok has begun!”.
