Kenneth Branagh Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Kenneth Branagh
Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Here you can learn about Kenneth Branagh’s career and private life facts, read the latest news, find all the awards he has won and watch photos and videos.

PERSONAL DATA OF KENNETH BRANAGH

Age: 60 years
Height: 177 cm
Born in: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Born on: 10/12/1960

Spouse: Lindsay Brunnock (s. 2003), Emma Thompson (s. 1989-1995)

BIOGRAPHY OF KENNETH BRANAGH

Up to the age of 9 he grows up with his older brother and parents in Northern Ireland. The outbreak of the civil war convinces his father, a plumber and carpenter, to accept a job in Reading in Berkshire, North London, the city where all the males of the family move, joined by the mother at a later time after giving birth. little sister Joyce. Although at first he finds it difficult to make himself understood by his English schoolmates due to his strong Irish accent, Kenneth Charles Branagh he settles down rather quickly by acquiring the local accent to avoid bullying against him. At the age of fifteen he sees a theatrical production of Hamlet for the first time and is struck by it. Young Ken wants to become a stage actor.
At eighteen he enters the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art of London, founded in 1904. Upon graduating from high school, he plays a secondary role in the West End production of Another Country, an interpretation for which he gets many awards, acclaim and praise. It’s only the beginning. L’Henry V by William Shakespeare, staged by Royal Shakespeare Company a couple of years later, he assures him alone 23 years a place among the best new talent on the British stage. The impersonal and bureaucratic aspects of the RSC push him to decline a second contract with the prestigious company. Together with the actor David Parfitt creates a new one in 1987, the Renaissance Theater Company. The debut is rather ominous: the premiere of Public Enemy, written, directed and interpreted by the same Branagh, receives negative criticism and accusations of megalomania rain down for the young author. Fortunately, the subsequent Shakespearean productions, The Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet met with favorable reviews. Kenneth Branagh begins to be defined as the new Laurence Olivier.
The first step in cinema takes place in 1981 as an appearance in Moments of glory. Parallel to the rise in the theater, Branagh starred in several productions TV during the 80’s. It’s thanks to the series Fortunes of War that his life begins to become of interest to the media, especially because on that set he meets his future wife Emma Thompson. In 1989, besides his marriage to the actress, he made his debut in film directing directing himself in Henry V (His also the screenplay taken from the work of the same name by Shakespeare). For the film he receives the Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Actor. The artistic partnership with the Thompson who appears with him also in subsequent directories, The Other Crime (1991), Peter’s Friends (1992) is Much ado about nothing (1993).
Branagh continues his relationship with the works of William Shakespeare also later with Hamlet (1996), of which it is released in theaters in two versions of two and four hours, Lost Love’s Pain (2000) is As You Like It (2006). Even the brilliant comedy he wrote, In the middle of a freezing winter (1995), speaks of a Shakespearean company of actors. In 1994 directs and acts the adaptation (signed by Frank Darabont) of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley in which he reserves for himself the part of the scientist, while the creature is played by Robert De Niro. It is on this set that he knows and falls in love with Helena Bonham Carter with whom, after divorcing from Emma Thompson in 1995, lives a relationship destined to end in 1999.
As a simple actor he plays in Celebrity (1998) by Woody Allen, Wild Wild West (1999) by Barry Sonnenfeld, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) by Chris Columbus is Bryan Singer’s Operation Valkyria (2008). In 2007 directs the remake of Sleuth – The Unsuspected, with Michael Caine and Jude Law. From 2008, instead, it interprets Commissioner Wallander in the TV series of BBC treats from the novels of Henning Mankell, for which he gets rave reviews by winning his fourth BAFTA Award. In 2012 gets an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Sir Laurence Olivier in the film Marilyn of Simon Curtis. In November of the same year he was awarded the title of Knight by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth for his contribution to culture and the film industry.
His is the direction of the cinecomic Thor (2011) and it is always to him that the credit goes to having entrusted the part of Loki a in that film Tom Hiddleston, an actor whose qualities he had appreciated on the set of Wallander. He subsequently directs a new film on the writer’s character Tom Clancy titled Jack Ryan – The Initiation (2013) which turns out to be a flop, so much so that it was released directly on Home Video in many European countries. But with the subsequent direction he brings back to its splendor a fairy tale like Cinderella in the new Disney adaptation, making a classic film like no one has seen for a long time.
Since May 2003, Kenneth Branagh he is married (for the second time) to the set designer Lindsay Brunnock, met on the set of the TV movie Shackleton (2002).