Death of the Nile (2022)

Stepping away from broad comedy, Brand took on the dramatic role of reserved physician Dr. Linus Windlesham in Kenneth Branagh’s 2022 Agatha Christie mystery Death on the Nile. Appearing alongside Gal Gadot, Annette Bening, and Letitia Wright aboard a doomed Egyptian river cruise, the part marked one of his final mainstream cinema appearances - unwittingly foreshadowing his own doomed journey from Hollywood stardom to a prison cell.