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Also Known As	Kenneth Charles Branagh
Born	December 10, 1960 (age 65) • Belfast • Northern Ireland
Founder	Renaissance Theatre Company
Awards And Honors	Golden Globe Award (2022) • Academy Award (2022) • Emmy Award (2001): Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
Notable Works	“A Haunting in Venice” • “All Is True” • “Artemis Fowl” • “As You Like It” • “Belfast” • “Cinderella” • “Dead Again” • “Death on the Nile” • “Hamlet” • “Henry V” • “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” • “Love’s Labour’s Lost” • “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” • “Much Ado About Nothing” • “Murder on the Orient Express” • “Peter’s Friends” • “Thor”
Notable Family Members	spouse Emma Thompson
Married To	Emma Thompson (1989–1995) • Lindsay Brunnock (2003–present)
Movies/Tv Shows (Acted In)	"Wallander" (2008–2015) • "Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale" (2015) • "Murder on the Orient Express" (2017) • "Play for Tomorrow" (1982) • "Valkyrie" (2008) • "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993) • "How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog" (2000) • "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" (2014) • "Hamlet" (1996) • "A Month in the Country" (1987) • "10 Days to War" (2008) • "All Is True" (2018) • "Wild Wild West" (1999) • "Celebrity" (1998) • "The Proposition" (1998) • "The Boat That Rocked" (2009) • "Twisted Tales of Love" (2019) • "The Theory of Flight" (1998) • "Fortunes of War" (1987) • "Five Children and It" (2004) • "The Road to El Dorado" (2000) • "Peter's Friends" (1992) • "Performance" (1995) • "Dunkirk" (2017) • "American Playhouse" (1988) • "Maybury" (1983) • "Boy in the Bush" (1984) • "High Season" (1987) • "Play for Today" (1982–1984) • "Shackleton" (2002) • "Thompson" (1988) • "Mystery!" (2010) • "Short6" (2001) • "Henry V" (1989) • "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" (2002) • "The Gingerbread Man" (1998) • "Othello" (1995) • "Love's Labour's Lost" (2000) • "National Theatre Live: Macbeth" (2013) • "Theatre Night" (1987) • "Dead Again" (1991) • "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" (1994) • "Rabbit-Proof Fence" (2002) • "Upstart Crow" (2018) • "My Week with Marilyn" (2011) • "Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer" (2016) • "American Experience" (2006) • "Omnibus" (1994)
Movies/Tv Shows (Directed)	"Sleuth" (2007) • "Cinderella" (2015) • "Love's Labour's Lost" (2000) • "Peter's Friends" (1992) • "Dead Again" (1991) • "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" (2014) • "All Is True" (2018) • "Artemis Fowl" (2020) • "Thor" (2011) • "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993) • "Murder on the Orient Express" (2017) • "Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale" (2015) • "A Midwinter's Tale" (1995) • "Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet" (2016) • "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" (1994) • "Henry V" (1989) • "As You Like It" (2006) • "The Magic Flute" (2006) • "Hamlet" (1996)
Movies/Tv Shows (Writing/Creator)	"As You Like It" (2006) • "The Magic Flute" (2006) • "A Midwinter's Tale" (1995) • "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993) • "Hamlet" (1996) • "Love's Labour's Lost" (2000) • "Henry V" (1989)