KENNETH BRANAGH
Full name:
Kenneth Charles Branagh
Born:
Dec. 10, 1960
Birthplace:
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Education:
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts
Family:
His parents are William and Frances. He has an older brother, William Jr., and a younger sister, Joyce. Companion: Actress Helena Bonham Carter Ex-wife: Actress Emma Thompson Kenneth Branagh's name has become almost synonymous with William Shakespeare. Consider the great film adaptations of Shakespeare's works, and Branagh's movies are the first to come to mind. He has directed and starred in such popular pictures as "Henry V," "Much Ado About Nothing," "Othello" and "Hamlet." Branagh explained his connection with The Bard to the Los Angeles Times: "It begins with the fact that he had profound insights into human nature, which he expressed quite poetically. His sensibility was a complex combination of extravagant romanticism and savagery, and he was unremittingly harsh in his view of human folly; and yet, one of the leitmotifs in his work is hope, which I think he recognized as a necessity in order for the human spirit to survive." "I'm also drawn to the elusiveness of Shakespeare. We know little about his life, nor do we know what the plays were in their original form, what his politics were, or whether he approved of war or religion." | |
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