Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Charles Branagh was born on December 10, 1960 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. He is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated Northern Irish-born actor and film director.

He starred in the film Henry V with Emma Thompson. The film brought him Best Actor and Best Director Oscar nominations. He played opposite Thompson again in the films Dead Again and Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

He also starred in The Gingerbread Man; a lovelorn parish priest in the period drama The Proposition; and played the arch villain in the '60s cult TV classic Wild Wild West.

He married Emma Thompson in 1989 and divorced in 1996. He married again in 2003, to film art director Lindsay Brunnock.

Filmography

Valkyrie (2008)
The Magic Flute (2006)
Warm Springs (2005) (TV)
Alien Love Triangle (2005)
Five Children and It (2004)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
The Road to El Dorado (2000) (voice)
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000)
Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
Galapagos: The Enchanted Voyage (1999) (voice)
Wild Wild West (1999)
The Betty Schimmel Story (1999)
The Dance of Shiva (1998)
The Proposition (1998)
The Gingerbread Man (1998)
Celebrity (1998)
The Theory of Flight (1998)
Hamlet (1996)
Looking for Richard (1996)
Othello (1995)
Anne Frank Remembered (1995) (voice)
Frankenstein (1994)
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Swing Kids (1993) (uncredited)
Peter's Friends (1992)
Dead Again (1991)
Discovering Hamlet (1990)
Henry V (1989)
High Season (1987)
A Month in the Country (1987)
Coming Through (1985)

Awards

Emmy Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie "Conspiracy" 2000 - 2001
Gielgud Award 2000
Chicago Film Festival Best Foreign Film Award "Henry V" 1990
BAFTA Award Best Achievement in Direction "Henry V" 1989
National Board of Review Award Best Director "Henry V" 1989
New York Film Critics Circle Award Best New Director "Henry V" 1989
Special London Critics' Circle Award 1988
Plays and Players London Theatre Critics Award Most Promising Newcomer "Another Country" 1982
Society of West End Theatres (SWET) Award Most Promising Newcomer "Another Country" 1982

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