Kenneth Branagh

Actor, Film director

1960 –

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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
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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