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Sir Kenneth Charles "Ken" Branagh ( ; born 10 December 1960) is a Northern Irish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has directed or starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including ''Henry V'' (1989) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director), ''Much Ado About Nothing'' (1993), ''Othello'' (1995), ''Hamlet'' (1996) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), ''Love's Labour's Lost'' (2000), and ''As You Like It'' (2006). He has also starred in numerous other films and television series including ''Fortunes of War'' (1987), Woody Allen's '' Celebrity'' (1998), ''Wild Wild West'' (1999), ''The Road to El Dorado'' (2000), ''Conspiracy'' (2001), ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' (2002), ''Warm Springs'' (2005), ''Valkyrie'' (2008), ''Wallander'' (2008–present), and ''My Week with Marilyn'' (2011) as Sir Laurence Olivier (Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor). He has directed such notable films as ''Dead Again'' (1991) in which he also starred, ''Swan Song'' (1992) (Academy Award nominated for Best Live Action Short Film), ''Mary Shelley's Frankenstein'' (1994) in which he also starred, ''The Magic Flute'' (2006), ''Sleuth'' (2007), the blockbuster superhero film ''Thor'' (2011), the action thriller ''Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit'' (2014) in which he also co-stars, and ''Cinderella'' (2015). He also narrated the BBC documentary miniseries' ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' (starred in 1999) (as well as ''The Ballad of Big Al''), ''Walking with Beasts'' (2001) and ''Walking with Monsters'' (2005). Branagh has been nominated for five Academy Awards, five Golden Globes, and has won an Emmy and three BAFTAs. He was appointed a knight bachelor in the 2012 Birthday Honours and was knighted on 9 November 2012.〔 == Early life == Branagh, the middle of three children, was born and raised in Belfast, the son of working-class Protestant parents Frances (née Harper) and William Branagh, a plumber and joiner who ran a company that specialised in fitting partitions and suspended ceilings. At the age of nine, he relocated with his family to Reading, Berkshire, to escape the Troubles.〔White p.3〕 He was educated at Grove Primary School,〔White, p.2〕 Whiteknights Primary School, then Meadway School, Tilehurst,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=My best teacher – Kenneth Branagh )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Berkshire's BAFTA Branagh )〕 where he appeared in school productions such as ''Toad of Toad Hall'' and ''Oh, What a Lovely War!''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=KENNETH BRANAGH ARCHIVE )〕 At school, he acquired an English accent to avoid bullying. On his identity today he has said, "I feel Irish. I don't think you can take Belfast out of the boy," and he attributes his "love of words" to his Irish heritage. He is known to have attended the (amateur) Reading Cine & Video Society (now called Reading Film & Video Makers)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RFVM History 1957–2012 )〕 as a member and was a keen member of Progress Theatre for whom he is now the patron. Branagh went on to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kenneth Branagh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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