Kenneth Branagh

Sir Kenneth Charles "Ken" Branagh (/ˈbrænə/ BRAN-ə, born December 10, 1960) is a British film director, actor and film producer. Banner trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where he has been director since 2015. He has won an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a Laurence Olivier Award. He was knighted in the 2012 birthday honors. In January 2018, he became a free man in his hometown of Belfast. In 2020, he was ranked 20th on The Irish Times' list of the greatest Irish film actors. Banner himself is a big fan of William Shakespeare's plays and has directed and starred in several film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, including 1989's "Henry V", 1993's "The Lover", 1995's "Killing", 1996's "Kenneth Branagh: Hamlet", 2000's "Lost Love", and 2006's "As You Like It". He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Academy Award for Best Director for "Henry V" and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet." He also directed the 1992 film "Swansong," an adaptation of the German opera "The Magic Flute" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Emanuel Schikaneder, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Film. His works that have directed and starred in include 1991's "The Last Day", 1994's "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein", 2014's "Phantom Strike", 2017's "Murder on the Orient Express", 2022's "Murder on the Nile" and 2023's "Phantom of Venice". In terms of directing, Banner directed the 2011 Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) superhero film "Thunder" and the 2015 Walt Disney Company's adaptation of "Cinderella." In terms of acting, he appeared in the 1998 movie "The Famous", 1999's "The Storm", 2000's "El Dorado", 2002's "Harry Potter: The Chamber of Secrets",