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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).
Kenneth Branagh
Brian Gallagher
for Brian Gallagher in IRISHMAN AND SCOTMAN
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Drew O'Sullivan manages to escape from prison and returns to the streets of New York after ten years behind bars to start a new life in seclusion with the help of his friends. However, his love Lucy Murphy has problems with his competitor, a Scottish gangster and the owner of several restaurants, Clyde Smith, which culminates in a shooting at her restaurant. Drew will help her and get her back into the gangster world. Drew joins back with his father Jack O'Sullivan and his Irish mob family, who quarrel with the Scottish family. Jack O'Sullivan has five sons, Drew, Conor, Noah, Charlie and Jack Jr. Brothers Cilian and Ryan O'Connor, Drew O'Sullivan, Noah O'Sullivan and Dallas Doyle (the top scorer) found themselves on the Irish side during a shootout at a restaurant in Manhattan, Charlie was killed. On the Scots' side were two sons of Smith, Oliver and Leo, as well as Lewis Stewart and Logan Thompson, all died, a situation that stirred up the worst between the two gangs, who had been fighting for decades. Meanwhile, Oscar Walsh of O'Sullivans, is killed in car in the Bronx. After Scottish Craig Robertson is offended by Brian Gallagher, Craig kills him in a fit of rage in Harlem, when Craig tries to hide the body, he was shot in the back of the head by Finn Kennedy. After Jack O'Sullivan's wife is abducted, he assembles the entire O'Sullivan gang and attacks the mansion of the Brooklyn Smith Gang. The O'Sullivans win, sitting in the garden at the end, Irish music and whiskey.
