kenneth Branagh's bio

He was born Kenneth Charles Branagh on the 10th of December, 1960, in Belfast. His father, William, was a carpenter, running a company that specialised in fitting partitions and suspended ceilings. His mother, Frances, raised Kenneth, brother William Jr, and sister Joyce. Kenneth's early life was spent in relative poverty, his working class Protestant family living in the shadow of a tobacco factory. With The Troubles ever brewing, life was never comfortable. Kenneth wasn't much of a student. More of a sporty type, he captained both the rugby and football teams. But possessed of that Irish love of language and was able to score himself a job reviewing children's books for a local paper, a position he'd hold up until his The actor in him quickly sprang to the life. He remembers being particularly taken by Burt Lancaster in The Birdman Of Alcatraz. He was moved by the performance. then, at 15, he threw himself into school productions and, when his drama teacher told him that he should consider acting as a profession, he became hooked. He just couldn't get enough. At 16, he took a tent to Stratford for the RSC season, studying the work of Jonathan Pryce and Michael Pennington. He later attended RADA and got a masters in english and actting, which set him on the path to becomes the enormuosly succesful actor that he is.

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Branagh, Kenneth. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Branagh

Branagh, Kenneth. Biogaraphy. Talktalk.com. http://www.talktalk.co.uk/entertainment/film/biography/artist/kenneth-branagh/biography/71