Kenneth Branagh Biography
Kenneth Branagh is a British actor and director who has received multiple awards, including an Academy Award, four BAFTAs, two Emmys, a Golden Globe Award, and an Olivier Award. In 2012, he was named a Knight Bachelor and placed 20th on The Irish Times’ list.
How old is Kenneth Branagh? – Age
He is 62 years old as of 10 December 2023. He was born in 1960 in Belfast, United Kingdom. His real name is Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh.
Kenneth Branagh Family – Education
Branagh is the son of Protestant working-class parents Frances and William. He went to Grove Primary School before moving to England at the age of nine to escape the Troubles. He attended Whiteknights Primary School and Meadway School while growing up in Reading. To avoid bullying, Branagh learnt to speak with an Irish accent, and he attributed his “love of words” to his Irish roots. He was a member of the Reading Cine & Video Society and the Progress Theatre.
Branagh attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London after receiving dismal A-level marks in English, history, and sociology. Hugh Cruttwell, RADA’s principal, requested him to perform a soliloquy from Hamlet for Queen Elizabeth II in 1980.
Kenneth Branagh Wife
Branagh married Emma Thompson, an English actress, in 1989, and they divorced in 1995. They appeared in Fortunes of War, Look Back in Anger, Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Dead Again, and Peter’s Friends all together. They later appeared together in The Boat That Rocked and the Harry Potter series, but they did not share any scenes. During their marriage, he began an affair with English actress Helena Bonham Carter while directing and co-starring in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Following Thompson’s divorce, he and Bonham Carter had a public romance until 1999. He married film art director Lindsay Brunnock in 2003, whom he met while filming Shackleton in 2002.
Kenneth Branagh Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $60 million.
Kenneth Branagh Height
He stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m).
Kenneth Branagh Oppenheimer
He appeared as Niels Bohr, a Nobel-winning physicist, philosopher and Oppenheimer’s personal idol in the 2023 epic biographical thriller film Oppenheimer. While studying under experimental physicist Patrick Blackett in 1926, J. Robert Oppenheimer, a 22-year-old PhD student, battles with anxiety and homesickness.
He enrolls at Göttingen to study theoretical physics, where he meets fellow physicists Isidor Isaac Rabi and Werner Heisenberg. Oppenheimer intends to broaden quantum physics research in the United States and will begin teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, and the California Institute of Technology. Nuclear fission is discovered in 1938, and Oppenheimer understands it has the potential to be weaponized. In 1942, he oversees the Manhattan Project, which is motivated by the Nazis’ nuclear weapons program, to produce an atomic bomb.
Oppenheimer’s attitude on nuclear weapons development is controversial, and AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss criticizes him for his public humiliation and unwillingness to engage with the Soviet Union. Strauss organizes a private meeting in 1954 to withdraw Oppenheimer’s Q clearance, harming his public image and diminishing his influence on nuclear strategy. President Lyndon B. Johnson bestows the Enrico Fermi Award to Oppenheimer in 1963.
Kenneth Branagh Frankenstein
Branagh made a career blunder with his adaption of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994). Branagh, Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Hulce, and Ian Holm appeared in the picture. It had its world premiere at the London Film Festival, where it got mixed reviews. “[He] is in over his head,” remarked New York Times film critic Janet Maslin of Branagh’s failure. He lacks the technical skill to execute a large, visually ambitious picture, as well as the intelligence to create a compelling new interpretation of this subject. Instead, this is a bland, no-fault Frankenstein for the 1990s, lacking in villainy but brimming with the tragically misunderstood.” He went on to direct the little British romantic comedy In the Bleak Midwinter (1995), which received favorable reviews.
Kenneth Branagh Movies
♦ 2004 – Five Children & It
♦ 2007 – Sleuth – Man on TV
♦ 2008 – Valkyrie
♦ 2009 – The Boat That Rocked
♦ 2011 – My Week with Marilyn
♦ 2012 – Stars in Shorts
♦ 2014 – Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
♦ 2016 – Mindhorn
♦ 2017 – Dunkirk
♦ 2017 – Murder on the Orient Express
♦ 2018 – Avengers: Infinity War
♦ 2018 – All Is True
♦ 2020 – Tenet
♦ 2022 – Fireheart
♦ 2022 – Death on the Nile
♦ 2023 – Oppenheimer
♦ 2023 – A Haunting in Venice
Kenneth Branagh TV Shows
♦ 1987 – Lorna
♦ 1987 – Theatre Night
♦ 1987 – Fortunes of War
♦ 1988 – Thompson
♦ 1988 – American Playhouse
♦ 1989 – Look Back in Anger
♦ 1995 – The Shadow of a Gunman
♦ 2001 – Conspiracy
♦ 2002 – Shackleton
♦ 2005 – Warm Springs
♦ 2006 – Lunar Jim
♦ 2008 – 10 Days to War
♦ 2008–2016 – Wallander
♦ 2018 – Upstart Crow
♦ 2022 – This England