Branagh

British  

/ ˈbrænə /

noun

1. Sir Kenneth . born 1961, British actor and director, born in Northern Ireland. He founded the Renaissance Theatre Company in 1986. His films include Henry V (1989), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Hamlet (1997), and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

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Example Sentences

The critically well-liked if small-scaled film was directed by none other than Shakespeare-interpreter extraordinaire Kenneth Branagh.

From Los Angeles Times

Along with letters, memoirs, speeches, pamphlets and newspaper extracts read by a cast that includes Meryl Streep, Kenneth Branagh, Morgan Freeman, Claire Danes, Matthew Rhys, Edward Norton, Michael Keaton, Laura Linney, Craig Ferguson, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hanks, Adam Arkin, Damian Lewis, Keith David and Paul Giamatti, once again suiting up as John Adams, they present a complex picture of a story often obscured in red, white and blue certainties.

From Los Angeles Times

If you are one who thinks that Mr. Branagh puts a little too much egg in his pudding, this recording may not be for you, but those who relish the actor’s command and range will find Mr. Hopkins’s story in “We Did OK, Kid” both riveting and moving.

From The Wall Street Journal

I found Mr. Branagh so enthralling that I occasionally had to glance down at the photo of Mr. Hopkins, with his piercing blue eyes and age-lined face, to remind myself whose story it was.

From The Wall Street Journal

As an audio experience, the main thing to know is that the body of the book is read by Kenneth Branagh, at 64 a somewhat younger theatrical great who has a voice so silky and supple that he can shift easily from delivering a passage of Shakespeare in Standard English to producing dialect in the accents of Wales, working-class East London and, most amusingly, the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal