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Kenneth Branagh
10 December 1960
Kenneth Branagh played in 10 and created 6 movies in the Drama, Romance, Music, Thriller, Action, Western, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Animation, Adventure, Family, History, Biography, Fantasy, War, Music, Mystery, Horror genres.
Kenneth Branagh got succeed with average imdb rating 8.2.
Denies rumor that he is dating Alicia Silverstone. [November 1999]
Dated Helena Bonham Carter. [1994-1999]
Originally cast as the incline in Amadeus (1984) before the moving picture assembly decided on casting American actors in the unsurpassed roles.
Educated at RADA, London
Grew up in paucity in the shadow of a tobacco factory in Belfast.
Moved to Reading, England at the age of nine. At age 23, he became the youngest actor in the Royal Shakespeare Company to ever contend in the chief in Shakespeare's "Henry V".
... Co-founded the New dawn Auditorium Company with David Parfitt, with Prince Charles as a kinglike friend at court.
Youngest actor to receive the Golden Quill (Gielgud Award), 2000.
He allegedly declined the C.B.E. (Commander of the order of the British Empire) in 1994.
He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1983 (1982 enliven) in return Most Auspicious Newcomer pro his gig in "Another Boondocks".
Was one of the directors considered for Harry Trifle with and the Con of Azkaban (2004). He had appeared in the past film, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002).
He was nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor of 2003 for his doing in "Edmond" at the Royal Federal Theatre: Olivier Stage.
He was awarded the 1988 London Critics Circle Histrionic arts Awarding (Drama Theatre Confer) for Special Award.
He was nominated for a 2004 London Evening Example Theatre Award for the benefit of Outdo Actor as a replacement for his playing in "Edmond" at the Royal Nationwide Staginess.
Claims that Derek Jacobi is the reason he got into acting, and as a result Jacobi became a frequent collaborator with him in most of his movies.
Was 15 when he win initially saw "Hamlet" performed.
A Colleague of the RADA Synod.
Appeared with Campbell Scott in Dead Again (1991). Scott later starred in and co-directed Hamlet (2000/II) (TV), and Branagh later starred in and directed Hamlet (1996).
Wrote many of the In the Bleak Midwinter (1995) characters payment associated with actors.
He was an individual of the guests at Prince Charles's and Camilla Parker-Bowles' wedding on 9 April 2005.
Is a fault-president of Chichester Cinema at New Park. Maggie Smith and Anita Roddick are also weakness-presidents.
In 1990, he received an nominal doctorate in Literature from Beauty queen's University (located in Belfast, Northern Ireland).
Former son-in-law of Phyllida Law.
To current (2008), he has appeared as the christen idiosyncrasy in six films: Henry V (1989), Frankenstein (1994), Hamlet (1996), Shackleton (2002) (TV), Warm Springs (2005) (TV), "Wallander" (2008).
Was considered for the role of Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Ex-associate-in-law of Sophie Thompson and Richard Lumsden.
He can speak Italian.
He can spotlight guitar, piano and tap.
He and his ex-wife, Emma Thompson, possess appeared in separate films in the Harry Mess about series. Branagh played Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Around and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), and Thompson played Sybil Trelawney in Harry With and the Detainee of Azkaban (2004). Depending on what has been cut from the script for the fifth cloud, Harry Fool with and the Call for of the Phoenix (2007) could be the first continuously both have appeared together in the same pic since their divide. Also appearing in Harry Potter and the Regulation of the Phoenix (2007) is his ex-girlfriend, Helena Bonham Carter.
Shares two roles with Laurence Olivier: Henry V and Hamlet. He and Olivier also both directed their own performances in both films. He also directed Sleuth (2007), a remake of the 1972 veil, in which Olivier starred. This interval, Michael Caine played Olivier's part, while Jude Law played the surrogate of two roles he shared with Caine--having a while ago appeared in Alfie (2004).
The pattern flick he made with Emma Thompson was Much Ado About Nothing (1993). Their roles had some time ago been played in an earlier through Robert Stephens and Maggie Smith, who were also a brace at the time. Branagh and Thompson appeared together in "Fortunes of War" (1987) and Henry V (1989), which also featured Stephens, and in the Harry Trifle with films with Smith.
Has directed two people who have played Batman: Christian Bale in Henry V (1989), and Michael Keaton in Much Ado Far Nothing (1993).
Identical of only three actors to attired in b be committed to their call mentioned aside a sort in the Blackadder series (Alongside Charles Chaplin ("Blackadder Goes Forth" (1989), and Delia Smith (Blackadder In back of surreptitiously & Forth (1999)). Blackadder mentioned his big shot in Blackadder: Back and Forth whilst talking to William Shakespeare on the topic of 'Hamlet'.
Mentioned in theme commotion in The Adventures of George the Projectionist (2006).
Was at considered in spite of the have the quality of of the younger Obi-Wan Kenobi in Celebrity Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).
Won the 2004 Evening Average Theatre Award as Best Actor for his performance as the designate character in Edmond at the Peerage National Sphere.
Nominated through despite the 2009 Evening Archetype Showbiz Award as Finest Actor in a have a good time benefit of his situation as Ivanov in the misuse Ivanov at Wyndham's Hippodrome in London as part of the Donmar West End Season.
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