Kenneth Branagh

Also Credited As:

Kenneth Branagh, Kenneth Charles Branagh
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Biography

Once hailed as the "new Laurence Olivier," Shakespearean-trained actor and director Kenneth Branagh struggled throughout his career to balance his near-obsessive drive to work with the need for a somewhat normal, settled life. After his directorial breakthrough with his excellent interpretation of The Bard's "Henry V" (1989), Branagh had what appeared to many to be the picture-perfect life: a beautiful wife in Emma Thompson, a thriving career …
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Job Title

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Music, Other

Born

Kenneth Charles Branagh on December 10, 1960 in United Kingdom

LATEST CREDITS

Look Back in Anger

Jimmy Porter

Alien Love Triangle

Steven Chesterman

The Proposition

Father Michael McKinnon

Triumph of the Prehistoric Beasts

Narration

Dead Again

Mike Church

The Gingerbread Man

Rick Magruder

The Prehistoric Beasts Within

Narration

The Goebbels Experiment

Narrator

Cold War

Narrator

Warm Springs

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Love's Labour's Lost

Berowne

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

Peter McGowan

Henry V

Henry V

Five Children and It

Actor

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

Narration

Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood

Host, Narration

Shackleton

Sir Ernest Shackleton

Fortunes of War

Guy Pringle

Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic

Narrator

Walking With Monsters

Narrator

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein

Thompson

Performer (7/15/90, 7/22/90, 7/29/90, 8/5/90, 8/12/90, 8/19/90 )

The Theory of Flight

Richard

Much Ado About Nothing

Benedick--of Padua