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
My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.
Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.
Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.
'Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller.
In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.
In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure.
I've lived a lot of my life in London, so I often feel that I am a Londoner.
I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.
I'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast.
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 a devotee of Stephen Sondheim. I think he's a genius.
I went to Moscow and met some slightly powerful and scary people.
I went to a comprehensive school and didn't go to university.
I think we love the escapism of something like 'Cinderella,' and I think we do with 'Thor.'