Yahoo Web Search

  1. Kenneth Branagh

    Kenneth Branagh

    British actor and filmmaker

Search results

  1. Sir Kenneth Branagh (b. 10 December, 1960) is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated Northern Irish-born British actor and film director. He portrayed Gilderoy Lockhart in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Branagh is well known for his Shakespeare adaptations. His acting career started with the 1981 film Chariots of Fire, in which he played an artist ...

  2. May 6, 2024 · Kenneth Branagh (born December 10, 1960, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an Irish-born English actor, director, and writer who is best known for his film adaptations of Shakespearean plays. At age nine Branagh moved with his family from Northern Ireland to London. He began acting in school plays and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic ...

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. Actor: Henry V. Kenneth Charles Branagh was born on December 10, 1960, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to parents William Branagh, a plumber and carpenter, and Frances (Harper), both born in 1930. He has two siblings, William Branagh, Jr. (born 1955) and Joyce Branagh (born 1970). When he was nine, his family escaped The Troubles by moving to ...

    • January 1, 1
    • 1.77 m
    • Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
  4. Branagh directed and starred as Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express (2017), Death on the Nile (2022), and A Haunting in Venice (2023). 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), Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), and Valkyrie (2008).

  5. Apr 15, 2022 · Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter, remembers how Branagh, who played Gilderoy Lockhart, made him laugh on set. He also shares his fond memories of the flying car scene and his co-stars in the second Harry Potter film.

  6. Jan 21, 2022 · Kenneth Branagh's hysterical and hilarious turn as Gilderoy Lockhart, the pompous and incompetent Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, is one of the film's highlights. The article analyzes how Branagh captures the character's pomposity, charm and deception, and how he relates to the themes of celebrity culture and the media.

  7. People also ask

  8. See photos, quotes and trivia of Kenneth Branagh as Gilderoy Lockhart, a pompous and cowardly Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Learn how he uses memory charms, answers fan mail and gets trapped in the Chamber of Secrets.

  1. People also search for