Professor Brand — Interstellar Character Profile

About Professor Brand

Director of a secret NASA facility who initiates the wormhole mission. He develops a gravity equation to enable an Earth exodus, but later confesses on his deathbed that a complete solution was impossible without singularity data, revealing the Endurance crew's true sacrificial mission.

Affiliations

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Interstellar universe

Quick Facts about Professor Brand

Occupation

professor, physicist

First Appearance

Interstellar

Professor Brand's Known Relations

• Amelia Brand — Child
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration — Employer

Character Facts

Played by

Michael Caine

Appears in

Interstellar (2014)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (3)

• Professor Brand — Family Father — Brand (Anne Hathaway)

  Professor Brand is Amelia's biological father and mentor.

• Professor Brand — Professional Scientific Mentor — Murph (Jessica Chastain)

  Professor Brand guides Murph's scientific research on Earth.

• Professor Brand — Power Recruiter — Cooper (Matthew McConaughey)

  Brand recruits and directs Cooper for the critical space colonization mission.

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