Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh
Branagh in July 2009
Date personale
Nume la naștere	Kenneth Charles Branagh
Poreclă	Ken
Născut	10 decembrie 1960 (60 de ani) Belfast, Irlanda de Nord, 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
Premii Emmy
Premiul Primetime Emmy pentru cel mai bun actor într-o miniserie sau film de televiziune[*]​ (2001) pentru Conspirația
Alte premii
Knight Bachelor[*][[Knight Bachelor (title granted to a man who has been knighted by the British monarch but not inducted as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry)|​]] Premiul Emmy (2001) pentru Conspirația Young European Film of the Year[*][[Young European Film of the Year (annual European Film Award (1988-1996))|​]] (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