Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh
Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh is a Northern Irish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He has directed or starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, and As You Like It...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth10 December 1960
CityBelfast, Northern Ireland
CountryIreland
I'm a devotee of Stephen Sondheim. I think he's a genius.
I'm involved in Northern Ireland Screen and have been for a long time, so I keep my eyes open and ears to the ground.
I'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast.
I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.
I've lived a lot of my life in London, so I often feel that I am a Londoner.
In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure.
In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.
'Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller.
Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.
Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.
My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.
One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.
Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be.
The BAFTA is both absolutely fantastic and sort of meaningless at the same time.