Background
Kenneth Branagh was born on December 10, 1960 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is a son of William Branagh and Frances Branagh.
(As both star and director of the acclaimed film Henry V, ...)
As both star and director of the acclaimed film Henry V, young Branagh has had his career compared to that of Lawrence Olivier. Full of charm, humor, and insight into an actor's craft, Branagh's intriguing autobiography tells of his childhood in Belfast, his training at the Royal Academy of Drama, and his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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1990
(The tie-in book to the latest Shakespearean film by Kenne...)
The tie-in book to the latest Shakespearean film by Kenneth Branagh, whose Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing were huge critical and popular successes. Often credited with creating a popular movie audience for Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh has wanted for many years to bring to the screen the complete, full-length version of Hamlet, Shakespeare's greatest play. "The film, like the play, will have something for everyone," he says. "Its a ghost story, a thriller, an action-packed murder mystery, and a great tragedy that is profoundly moving." With an outstanding cast of international actors--including Derek Jacobi as Claudius, Julie Christie as Gertrude, Kate Winslet as Ophelia, Charlton Heston as the Player King, Robin Williams as Osric, and Gerard Depardieu as Reynaldo--Branagh's version, in which he will play the title role as well as direct, is sure to go down in film history. This beautiful volume includes Branagh's introduction and screenplay adaptation of Shakespeare's text, color and black-and-white stills, and a production diary that takes us behind the scenes for a day-to-day look at the shooting of his film.
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2013
Kenneth Branagh was born on December 10, 1960 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is a son of William Branagh and Frances Branagh.
Branagh was educated at Grove Primary School, Whiteknights Primary School, then Meadway School, Tilehurst. Then he graduated from Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1981. Kenneth received a degree of a Doctor of Letters (honorary) at Queens University, Belfast, in 1990.
Early in his career Branagh joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. He also appeared in several television productions, including The Lady’s Not for Burning (1987) and Look Back in Anger (1989), both movies adapted from plays, and the miniseries Fortunes of War (1987), based on novels by Olivia Manning. In 1987, he co-founded his own drama organization, the Renaissance Theatre Company, with David Parfitt. He subsequently starred as Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton in the miniseries Shackleton (2002) and as Franklin D. Roosevelt in the miniseries Warm Springs (2005). In the crime series Wallander (2008–16), which adapted the work of novelist Henning Mankell, Branagh played the title role.
Branagh’s later film roles included supporting turns in Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), a film adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s popular children’s book. His appearance as Olivier in My Week with Marilyn (2011), which dramatized events behind the scenes of the 1957 film The Prince and the Showgirl, earned him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. During this time Branagh continued to direct, and his credits include Sleuth (2007), a remake of the 1972 film about a mystery author who gets revenge on his wife’s younger lover, and Thor (2011), an adaptation of a comic book about the eponymous Norse god.
In 2014 Kenneth helmed the action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, in which he also appeared as a vicious Russian banker. Branagh then directed Cinderella (2015), an adaptation of the classic fairy tale.
In 2017 Branagh portrayed a British naval commander in the World War II drama Dunkirk, about the evacuation of Allied troops from France. That same year he directed and starred as the renowned detective Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express, based on Agatha Christie’s 1933 novel.
Branagh wrote several books about the making of his films, and his autobiography, Beginning, was published in 1989.
(The tie-in book to the latest Shakespearean film by Kenne...)
2013(As both star and director of the acclaimed film Henry V, ...)
1990Branagh married Emma Thompson, whom he divorced in 1996, on August, 1989. He married Lindsay Brunnock on May in 2003.