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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
Obi-Wan Kenobi
for Obi-Wan Kenobi in Robert Zemeckis' Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
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Set 23 years before "Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope" (4 years before the formation of the Galactic Empire), the Republic and Jedi Council are painfully aware of growth the Separatist factions power. In the midst, young slave Anakin Skywalker dreams of freedom on Tatooine. Alongside his best friend Owen Lars and loving mother Shmi, Anakin’s life is changed forever when Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and his master, Qui-Gon Jinn, discover him to be the chosen one of the force. Meanwhile, the beautiful and brave Padmé Amidala, humble queen of Naboo, seeks to liberate her homeworld from the sinister plots of Darth Maul. As their fates intertwine, Anakin's journey takes him from the sands of Tatooine to the halls of the Galactic Senate and cold of the Jedi Council room, culminating in the eruption of the Clone Wars. Through friendships, love, and harrowing battles, Anakin begins his path towards a destiny that will change the galaxy forever.
