Kenneth Branagh

  • Name: Kenneth Branagh
  • Date of Birth: December 10, 1960
  • Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Mini-bio: Kenneth Charles Branagh (born December 10, 1960) is an Emmy Award-winning Northern Irish-born British actor and film director.
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Kenneth Charles Branagh was born on December 10, 1960, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, to parents William Branagh, a carpenter born in 1930, and Frances Branagh, also born in 1930. His brother William Branagh Jr. was born in 1955 and sister Joyce Branagh was born in 1970.

At 23 Branagh joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he took on starring roles in "Henry V" and "Romeo and Juliet". He soon found the RSC too large and impersonal and formed his own, the Renaissance Theatre Company, which now counts Prince Charles as one of its royal patrons. At 29 he directed and starred in the film Henry V (1989), which costarred his then-wife, Emma Thompson. The film brought him Best Actor and Best Director Oscar nominations. In 1993 he brought Shakespeare to mainstream audiences again with his hit adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing (1993), which featured an all-star cast that included Denzel Washington and Keanu Reeves.

At 30 he published his autobiography and at 34 he directed and starred as Victor Frankenstein in the big-budget adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein (1994), with Robert De Niro as the monster himself. The bad reviews may have had some effect on his marriage, though, because in October 1995 he and Thompson announced their plans to divorce. In 1996 Branagh wrote, directed and starred in a lavish adaptation of Hamlet (1996). In recent years he starred in a series of non-Bard-related roles in Celebrity (1998), Wild Wild West (1999), and as a voice in The Road to El Dorado (2000).

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  • OCButterfly99
    OCButterfly99
    I LOVE Kenneth..hot...and in Harry Potter he was perfect for the part!! Brilliant! I love all his work!
    posted 57 days ago
  • MellowCool14
    MellowCool14
    I think you were great in wild wild west. Kind of sexy...
    posted 619 days ago
  • Emzi07
    Emzi07
    Once more unto the breech dear friends once more, or close up the walls with our English dead...


    the man who got me into shakespeare. What a legend!
    posted 679 days ago
  • crackingdanio
    crackingdanio
    he looks like a completely different person in each and every movie he appears in
    posted 720 days ago
  • IMPARTBRITISH
    IMPARTBRITISH
    omg! an amazing actor!luvd him in much ado about nothing and HP 2. those are the only two ive seen him in and i plan on seeing more, and i cant wait! just watching those two movies make me love him!
    posted 804 days ago
  • firefly027
    firefly027
    He has been one of my favorite actors since I was 9 years old.
    posted 839 days ago
  • skybird1628
    skybird1628
    Professor Lockhart in the second movie
    posted 857 days ago
  • PassionateMoviegoer
    PassionateMoviegoer
    He was awesome in the movie 'The Proposition'.
    posted 861 days ago
  • tiffanypurple
    tiffanypurple
    who does he play in harry potter
    posted 866 days ago
  • LisaEThatsMe
    LisaEThatsMe
    Kenneth is an AMAZING ACTOR!
    posted 992 days ago
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  • Kenneth Branagh and Mel Gibson have both played Hamlet,and they are both directors, but which one directed himself in that particular role?  Answer »
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  • Who played Shakespeare's Hamlet (1996), which also had Kate Winslet, Billy Crystal, Julie Christie, Robin Williams. He also did Much Ado About Nothing(1993), Wild Wild West (1999), Henry V(1989), Love's Labours Lost (2000)and Othello(1995). Name this Irish born, British actor.  Answer »
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