Honors also followed for Hamlet, Love's Labours Lost, and As You Like It.īranagh first came to public prominence in 1987 in the television adaptation of Fortunes of War opposite then-girlfriend Emma Thompson the two married, and became known as Ken and Em for the best part of a decade before separating shortly after a successful season at the Chichester Theater in the south of England, where they both starred in the sell-out run of King Lear.īranagh was knighted by the Queen in 2012, and in 2018 was made a Freeman of the City of his native Belfast, Ireland.īBC viewers found the casting of Jacobi as Claudius both ironic and delightfully familiar, given that he had already been starring in the television series I, Claudius for a number of years the BBC had called on him again for their made-for-television adaptation of Hamlet in 1980 and so the big-screen version was his second time playing the murderous king. Branagh's Prince Hamlet pretends to be insane but in reality he is more manic than completely mad.īranagh has spent a large portion of his esteemed career playing Shakespeare's leading men trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, in London, and later taking over the role of the school's president from garrulous director Sir Richard Attenborough, Branagh was nominated for two Academy Awards in 1993 for his adaptation of the Bard's Much Ado About Nothing, in both Best Leading Actor and Best Director categories, following these nominations up in 1995 with another Best Director nomination for Othello.

He also ridded the role of the Oedipus complex that Laurence Olivier had focused on. Historically, Hamlet has been portrayed as neurotic by most of the actors who went before Kenneth Branagh in fact, Branagh's 2018 portrayal of Hercule Poirot, the little Belgian detective investigating a murder on the Orient Express, showed a far more neurotic and anxiety-ridden man.

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