Kenneth Branagh
Actor, Film director
1960 –
Who is Kenneth Branagh?
Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh, Kt. is an actor, director, producer and screenwriter from Northern Ireland. He has directed or starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, and As You Like It.
He has also starred in numerous other films and television series including Fortunes of War, Wild Wild West, The Road to El Dorado, Conspiracy, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Warm Springs, Valkyrie, Wallander, and My Week with Marilyn as Sir Laurence Olivier. He has directed such notable films as Dead Again in which he also starred, Swan Song, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in which he also starred, The Magic Flute, Sleuth, the blockbuster superhero film Thor and the action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit in which he also co-stars.
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- Born
- Dec 10, 1960
Belfast - Also known as
- Kenneth Charles Branagh
- Ken Branagh
- Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh
- Ken
- Sir Kenneth Branagh
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Emma Thompson
(1989/08/20 - 1995/10/01) - Lindsay Brunnock
(2003/05/24 - ) - Helena Bonham Carter
(1994/09 - 1999)
- Emma Thompson
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Ethnicity
- Irish people
- British people
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Grove Primary School
- Meadway School
- Bachelor of Arts, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Fine art - Whiteknights Primary School
- Grove Primary School, Belfast
- Lived in
- Reading
- Belfast
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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