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The Graham Norton Show, 2019 with Kenneth Branagh Photographer: Isabel Enfantes

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How To Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000)

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Murder on the Orient Express / Mord im Orient Express

Erscheinungsjahr 2017

114 min

Regie: Kenneth Branagh

Darsteller: Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley, Judy Dench

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Kenneth Branagh as Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)

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KENNETH BRANAGH, Chicago, May 1990

I don’t suppose I would have heard of Kenneth Branagh until the year before I took these pictures, when he directed and starred in a movie version of Shakespeare’s Henry V. But it was a hell of a debut and Branagh was a very big deal when I flew down to Chicago with the late Jon Kaplan, the theatre editor at NOW, to shoot a cover story in advance of Branagh’s Renaissance Theatre Company appearing in Toronto with their touring productions of King Lear and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It was early days with NOW and I was still thrilled that I was traveling to do portraits, and to cities like Chicago that I’d never seen before.

Kenneth Branagh was born in Belfast to a Protestant family and moved to England in 1970 to escape the resurgence in civil unrest in Northern Ireland. He joined a local theatre group in Reading and was accepted at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London; he became part of a group of young actors that included Jonathan Pryce, Juliet Stephenson and Alan Rickman and played Henry V for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984. He played D.H. Lawrence in the film Coming Through a year later and starred alongside Colin Firth in A Month in the Country in 1987. That year he met his wife, Emma Thompson, when they played Guy and Harriet Pringle in a BBC miniseries adaptation of Olivia Manning’s Fortunes of War novels.

My shoot with Kenneth Branagh was at the Blackstone Theater in Chicago (now the Merle Reskin Theater) and I showed up with my Nikon, a few lenses and my main lighting kit – a Metz “potato masher” flash with an umbrella and light stand. I’m not sure if Jon, the writer, did his interview before or after, but I judged that my best location was in the orchestra seating at the theatre, so I set up my light to get enough coverage for a few rows of seats and shot two rolls of colour slide with Branagh.

The best I could apparently come up with for directions was “do something with your hands” and Branagh obliged. I shot another roll of black and white for the inside of the paper with Branagh and producer David Parfitt, who would work with Branagh on Peter’s Friends (1992), Much Ado About Nothing (1993) and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) before going on to films like The Madness of King George, The Wings of the Dove and especially Shakespeare in Love, which won him an Oscar. Both Branagh and Parfitt were at the beginning of much greater careers when I took these photos in 1990, though they would disband their theatre company in 1992.

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (1993)

dir. kenneth branagh

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Shackleton's outfits in Shackleton (2002, Channel 4 TV). Costumes designed by Shirley Russell.

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Apparently Kenneth did a photoshoot that featured in an Italian magazine in the 80s and I can't find anything other than this small pic. I NEED IT.

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Apparently Kenneth did a photoshoot that featured in an Italian magazine in the 80s and I can't find anything other than this small pic. I NEED IT.

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It is the Hallowtide. We are close. Your spirit is close. A HAUNTING IN VENICE (2023) dir. Kenneth Branagh

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Kenneth Branagh costumes [2/?] → Hamlet’s black military uniform (+ shorter jacket variation) in Hamlet (1996)

“Branagh’s Hamlet is conceived as a soldier. When we first encounter him, he is dressed in a trim black military uniform, in stunning contrast to the white and gold glitter of Claudius and his court. […] Branagh’s Hamlet is distinguished by having taken his cue from Fortinbras’s final pronouncement that he should have a soldier’s funeral, for had he been "put on” he should have proved “most royal.” Branagh’s Hamlet, like his military uniform, is neat, trim, precise. He has a racing mind and a keen wit. He is interested in fencing lessons taking place at the court, and one can believe this Hamlet when he boasts to Horatio that “I shall win at the odds” in the match with Laertes. If he has a dark side, it is his military alter ego: Rufus Sewell’s Fortinbras.“ - Samuel Crowl, Shakespeare at the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era

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Kenneth Branagh in The Gingerbread Man (1998) dir. Robert Altman

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Kennet Branagh present editor Úna Ní Dhonghaíle ACE, BFE with the outstanding achievement award. February 15, 2025 👏👏👏👏❤️

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- Hamlet (1996)