page_title: Kenneth Branagh
section_title: Other work
hierarchical_section_title: Kenneth Branagh / Career / Other work
caption_attribution_description: English: Kenneth Branagh at the 2009 Roma Fiction Fest.
context_page_description: Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh is a Northern Irish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London; in 2015 he succeeded Richard Attenborough as its president. He has both directed and starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including Henry V, for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Hamlet, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Love's Labour's Lost, and As You Like It.
  Branagh has starred in numerous other projects. His television series include Fortunes of War, Shackleton, and Wallander, for which he won an International Emmy Award. His other major films include Celebrity, Wild Wild West, The Road to El Dorado, as SS leader Reinhard Heydrich in Conspiracy, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Warm Springs, as Major General Henning von Tresckow in Valkyrie, The Boat That Rocked, as Sir Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, Dunkirk, and Tenet.
context_section_description: Branagh has narrated several audiobooks, such as The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
  Branagh participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony portraying Isambard Kingdom Brunel during the Industrial Revolution segment "Pandemonium" where he performed one of Caliban's speeches from Shakespeare's The Tempest.
caption: Branagh in July 2009 at the Roma Fiction Fest, where he was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award
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