Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh
Branagh in July 2009
Date personale
Născut	10 decembrie 1960 (59 de ani) Belfast, Regatul Unit
Căsătorit cu	Emma Thompson (1989 - 1995) Lindsay Brunnock (2003 - prezent)
Cetățenie	Regatul Unit
Ocupație	Actor/Director
Alma mater	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Premii BAFTA
BAFTA pentru cel mai bun regizor
Alte premii
Knight Bachelor[*]​ Premiul Emmy (2001) pentru Conspiracy[*][[Conspiracy |​]] British Academy of Film and Television Arts (1990) pentru Henry V[*][[Henry V |​]] European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year[*]​ (1990) pentru Henry V[*][[Henry V |​]] Premiul Academiei Europene de Film pentru cel mai bun actor (1990) pentru Henry V[*][[Henry V |​]]
Prezență online
Internet Movie Database

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (/ˈbrænə/; n. 10 decembrie 1960), cunoscut mai ales sub numele scenic și filmic de Kenneth Branagh, este actor, producător, scenarist și regizor de teatru și film nord irlandez. Branagh a absolvit Royal Academy of Dramatic Art din London, iar în 2015, i-a succedat lui Richard Attenborough ca președinte al faimoasei instituții. Printre alte realizări scenice și filmice, omul de teatru nord-irlandez, a interpretat ca actor, a adaptat ca scenarist și a regizat mai multe adaptări filmice ale unor piese de teatru ale lui William Shakespeare.

Carieră

Onoruri

În 1994, Branagh a refuzat acordarea titlului de Order of the British Empire (CBE).

Branagh a fost cel mai tânăr actor căruia i s-a decernat Golden Quill (cunoscut și sub numele de Premiul Gielgud) în anul 2000.

Alături de Roberto Benigni, Branagh este unul din cei doi ne-americani nominalizat pentru premii Oscar pentru actorie, scenariu și regie, respectiv unul din cei opt actori care a fost recompensat cu această onoare. Ceilalți șase sunt Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, George Clooney, John Huston și John Cassavetes.

Filmografie

Actor

• To the Lighthouse (1983) (television) as Charles Tansley
• Ghosts (1986) (television) as Oswald
• Fortunes of War (1987) (television)
• A Month in the Country (1987) as James Moon
• High Season (1988) as Rick
• Look Back In Anger (1989) as Jimmy Porter
• Henry V (1989) as Henry V
• Dead Again (1991) as Roman Strauss and Mike Church
• Peter's Friends (1992) as Andrew Benson
• Swing Kids (1993) as Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)
• Mult zgomot pentru nimic (1993) as Benedick
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) as Dr. Victor Frankenstein
• Othello (1995) as Iago
• Hamlet (1996) as Hamlet
• The Gingerbread Man (1998) as Rick Magruder
• The Theory of Flight (1998) as Richard
• Alien Love Triangle (1998) (short)
• The Proposition (1998) as Father Michael McKinnon

• The Dance of Shiva (1998) (short) as Col. Evans
• Celebrity (1998) as Lee Simon
• Wild Wild West (1999) as Dr. Arliss Loveless
• The Periwig-Maker (1999) (short) (voice) as Periwig-maker
• The Road to El Dorado (2000) (voice) as Miguel
• Love's Labour's Lost (2000) as Berowne
• Conspiracy (2001) (television) as Reinhard Heydrich
• Schneider's 2nd Stage (2001) (short) as Joseph Barnett
• Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) as A. O. Neville
• How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2002) as Peter McGowan
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) as Professor Gilderoy Lockhart
• Shackleton (television) (2002) as Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
• Five Children and It (2004) as Uncle Albert
• Warm Springs (television) (2005) as Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Valkyrie (2008) as Henning von Tresckow
• Wallander (television) (2008) as Kurt Wallander
• The Boat That Rocked (2009) as Minister Dormandy

Regizor

• Henry V (1989)
• Dead Again (1991)
• Swan Song (1992, short) starring John Gielgud
• Peter's Friends (1992)
• Mult zgomot pentru nimic (1993)
• Frankenstein (1994)
• A Midwinter's Tale (1996)
• Hamlet (1996)
• Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
• Listening (2003 short)
• The Magic Flute (2006)
• As You Like It (2006)
• Sleuth (2007)
• Thor (2011)

Povestitor

• Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (Six-part TV special) (1996)
• Great Composers (TV mini-series) (1997)
• Cold War (CNN TV series) (1998)
• The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs (UK version) (TV series) (1999)
• Walking with Dinosaurs (UK version) (TV series) (1999)
• The Science of Walking with Beasts (Australia) (Two-part TV special) (2001)
• The Ballad of Big Al (UK version) (TV special) (2001)
• Walking with Beasts (UK version) (TV series) (2001)
• Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs (TV series) (2005)
• Goebbels-Experiment, Das (Documentary) (2005)

Discografie și cărți audio

• Shakespeare's Richard III (complete) for Naxos Audiobooks
• In the Ravine & Other Short Stories by Anton Chekhov (unabridged) for Naxos Audiobooks
• Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream (recitant) live recording for Sony Classical, conducted by Claudio Abbado
• The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660-1669 (abridged) for Hodder Headline Audio Classics
• The Magician's Nephew by C.S Lewis for Harper Books
• Shakespeare's "Sonnet 30" for the 2002 compilation album, When Love Speaks (EMI Classics)
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstien "[Abridged]

Bibliografie suplimentară

• Kenneth Branagh (1990 [1989]) Beginning, London: Chatto and Windus, ISBN 0-7011-3388-0; New York: W W Norton & Co, ISBN 0-393-02862-3
• Ian Shuttleworth (1994) Ken & Em, London: Headline. ISBN 0-7472-4718-8
• Mark White (2005) Kenneth Branagh, London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-22068-1
• Theatre Record and its annual Indexes

Legături externe

• Kenneth Branagh la Internet Movie Database
• Biography on Tiscali film section
• The Kenneth Branagh Compendium, an extensive fan site
• Kenneth Branagh interview from Premiere (1996)
• Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, a fan site

Interviuri

• Kenneth Branagh, despre comedie și copilărie în „The Observer“, 9 octombrie 2011, Ana-Maria Onisei, Adevărul