Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (/ˈbrænə/; born 10 December 1960) is a
Northern Irish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Branagh
trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London; in 2015 he
succeeded Richard Attenborough as its president. He has been nominated
for five Academy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards; he has won three
BAFTAs and two Emmy Awards. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the
2012 Birthday Honours and knighted on 9 November 2012. He was made a
Freeman of his native city of Belfast in January 2018. In 2020, he was
listed at number 20 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film
actors.Branagh has both directed and starred in several film
adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including Henry V (1989),
Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Othello (1995), Hamlet (1996), Love's
Labour's Lost (2000), and As You Like It (2006). He was nominated for
Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director for Henry V and for
Best Adapted Screenplay for Hamlet.He has also starred in the
television series Fortunes of War (1987), Shackleton (2002), and
Wallander (2008â€"2016) and in the films Celebrity (1998), Wild Wild
West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), as SS leader Reinhard
Heydrich in Conspiracy (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
(2002), Warm Springs (2005), as Major General Henning von Tresckow in
Valkyrie (2008), The Boat That Rocked (2009), and as Sir Laurence
Olivier in My Week with Marilyn (2011), Dunkirk (2017), and Tenet
(2020). He won an International Emmy Award for Wallander and a
Primetime Emmy Award for Conspiracy, and was nominated for the Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actor for My Week with Marilyn.
Northern Irish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Branagh
trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London; in 2015 he
succeeded Richard Attenborough as its president. He has been nominated
for five Academy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards; he has won three
BAFTAs and two Emmy Awards. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the
2012 Birthday Honours and knighted on 9 November 2012. He was made a
Freeman of his native city of Belfast in January 2018. In 2020, he was
listed at number 20 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film
actors.Branagh has both directed and starred in several film
adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including Henry V (1989),
Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Othello (1995), Hamlet (1996), Love's
Labour's Lost (2000), and As You Like It (2006). He was nominated for
Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director for Henry V and for
Best Adapted Screenplay for Hamlet.He has also starred in the
television series Fortunes of War (1987), Shackleton (2002), and
Wallander (2008â€"2016) and in the films Celebrity (1998), Wild Wild
West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), as SS leader Reinhard
Heydrich in Conspiracy (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
(2002), Warm Springs (2005), as Major General Henning von Tresckow in
Valkyrie (2008), The Boat That Rocked (2009), and as Sir Laurence
Olivier in My Week with Marilyn (2011), Dunkirk (2017), and Tenet
(2020). He won an International Emmy Award for Wallander and a
Primetime Emmy Award for Conspiracy, and was nominated for the Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actor for My Week with Marilyn.
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