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Born
December 10, 1960 · Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Birth name
Kenneth Charles Branagh

Spouses
Lindsay Brunnock(May 24, 2003 – present)
Emma Thompson(August 20, 1989 – October 1, 1995) (divorced)

QUOTES:

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

I’m just a foul-mouthed Brit.

My definition of success is control.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

It’s very strange that the people you love are often the people you’re most cruel with.

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium – if you get the chance to do it – from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. What works in one doesn’t work in the other, and you have to be looking for the truth of the performance, whatever way that medium might demand.

[on being told he is to be knighted by Queen Elizabeth II] I was very, very, very surprised and I was very touched. Michael Caine and Roger Moore, both of whom I’ve worked with, offered only the insight that it’s handy to have the ‘kneeling stool with the handle’. Roger Moore, who has a dodgy knee, was terrified on the way to the ceremony that, having knelt down, he wouldn’t be kneeling back up again. You don’t want to move suddenly while that sword’s being wielded, I’m sure. I haven’t read of [Her Majesty] having knicked someone on the ear just yet, but perhaps I’ll be the first.