|
Kenneth Charles Branagh (born December 10,
1960) is a versatile Emmy Award-winning British actor and film director.
****
Biography
Branagh was born in Belfast but at the age
of nine relocated with his family to Reading in England. He received a
honorary doctorate in Literature from Queen's University, Belfast in
1990.
Branagh has worked on both stage and
screen. He received initial acclaim in the UK for his stage
performances, including the title role in Hamlet. He is probably best
known for his popular film adaptations of the works of William
Shakespeare, beginning with Henry V in 1989 and including versions of
Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Love's Labour's Lost (2000) and Hamlet
(1996). He has also starred in a number of other successful films
unrelated to Shakespeare.
Branagh has been nominated for four Academy
Awards, including two for directing and acting in Henry V and another
for the screenplay of Hamlet. He has also won an Emmy Award for his
performance in the 2001 TV film Conspiracy.
He starred several times with his then
wife, Emma Thompson; they were married in 1989, and divorced in 1995.
For several years he was in a well-publicised relationship with Helena
Bonham Carter, with whom he also starred several times. He married again
in 2003, to film art director Lindsay Brunnock.
In 1994 Branagh declined to become a
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
Filmography
Selected Filmography (actor)
Warm Springs (2005) as Franklin D.
Roosevelt
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
(2002) as Professor Gilderoy Lockhart
Shackleton (TV) (2002) as Sir Ernest Henry
Shackleton
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2002)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) as A. O. Neville
Conspiracy (TV) (2001)
Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
The Road to El Dorado (2000) (voice)
Wild Wild West (1999) as Dr. Arliss
Loveless
Celebrity (1998)
The Theory of Flight (1998)
Hamlet (1996) as Hamlet
Othello (1995) as Iago
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) as Dr.
Victor Frankenstein
Much Ado About Nothing (1993) as Benedick
Swing Kids (1993) as Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)
Peter's Friends (1992)
Dead Again (1991) as Mike Church, P.I.
Henry V (1989) as Henry V
A Month in the Country (1988) as James Moon
Fortunes of War (TV) (1987)
Selected Filmography (director)
The Magic Flute (2006)
As You Like It (2006)
Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
Hamlet (1996)
A Midwinter's Tale (1996)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Peter's Friends (1992)
Dead Again (1991)
Henry V (1989)
Narrator
Walking with Dinosaurs (UK version) (TV
series) (1999)
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs (UK
version) (TV series) (1999)
The Ballad of Big Al (UK version) (TV
special) (2001)
Walking with Beasts (UK version) (TV
series) (2001)
The Science of Walking with Beasts
(Australia) (Two-part TV special) (2001)
CNN Cold War series
****
The
above biography has been copied in part or in whole
from an article on
Wikipedia.org
"The Free Encyclopedia." It has been modified under
the NGU Free Document License Section 5 in the
following manner: (1) All links within the article
have been removed, including text links such as
"[#]"; (2) The "[Edit]" text and link have been
removed [if you would like to update the article,
you may do so from the original page]; (3) the table
of Contents links and text have been removed; and
(4) all of the sections of the original article have
not been copied. All of the above text is available
under the terms of the
GNU Free Document License.
URL of Original Article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Branagh
Date Article Copied:
January 17, 2006
We
will try to replace this article with an original
biography in the near future, but we hope this will
be of help to our visitors in the mean time.
See something wrong?,
Click Here to tell us about it
|