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Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is a Northern Irish actor and filmmaker. Born in Belfast and raised primarily in Reading, Berkshire, Branagh trained at RADA in London and served as its president from 2015 to 2024. His accolades include an Academy Award, four BAFTAs, two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Olivier Award. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in 2012 and was given Freedom of the City in his native Belfast in 2018. In 2020, he was ranked in 20th place on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Branagh has directed and starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including Henry V (1989), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Othello (1995), Hamlet (1996), and As You Like It (2006). He was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director for Henry V and Best Adapted Screenplay for Hamlet. He directed Swan Song (1992), which earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. He also directed Peter's Friends (1992), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Thor (2011), and Cinderella (2015). For his semi-autobiographical film Belfast (2021), he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Director and won Best Original Screenplay. Branagh directed and starred as Hercule Poirot in the Hercule Poirot film series (2017–present). He has also acted in Celebrity (1998), Wild Wild West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), and Valkyrie (2008). His portrayal of Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn (2011) earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He played supporting roles in Christopher Nolan's films Dunkirk (2017), Tenet (2020), and Oppenheimer (2023). Branagh has starred in the BBC1 series Fortunes of War (1987), the Channel 4 series Shackleton (2002), the television film Warm Springs (2005), and the BBC One series Wallander (2008–2016). He received a Primetime Emmy Award and an International Emmy Award for Best Actor for portraying SS leader Reinhard Heydrich in the HBO film Conspiracy (2001).
What to do when you fall in love with the person you least expect? After being accidentally locked in the library for the entire weekend, Autumn Collins doesn't think things can get any worse. But she realizes that she is not alone. Dax Miller is locked in with her. Autumn doesn't know much about Dax, except that he's trouble. Between the rumors about a fight he got into (and the brief stint in juvie that followed) and his reputation for being antisocial, he's not exactly the best weekend company. Still, Autumn tries to stay calm and remember that it's only a matter of time before Jeff, her almost boyfriend, realizes he left her in the library and comes to rescue her. But Jeff doesn't show up. Nobody shows up. In the face of this, it's clear that Autumn will have to spend the weekend eating cereal bars and trying to talk to a boy who clearly wants nothing to do with her. Until she realizes there's so much more to Dax than he lets on. As Autumn and Dax open up to each other, she's amazed at their connection. But will the feelings survive when the weekend is over and Autumn's life returns to normal?
