Kenneth Branagh was born on December 10, 1960, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was the second child of three children, he came from a poor family. His family moved to England when he was 10 years old, at that age he began to like Shakespeare. He began to read Shakespeare plays as an escape from bullies. After he saw the play Hamlet at the age of 15, he liked acting. After that play he began acting in school productions. His teacher told him to consider acting as his profession. When he was 18, he had to make a choice between the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and the Central School of Speech and Drama, he went to RADA, where he received the Bancroft Gold medal for being the student of the year. At the age of 23, Branagh joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, he was the youngest in the "Henry V". The first time he worked with Emma Thompson was in "Fortune of War", in 1987, who he later married on August 1989, but in October 1995, Branagh and Thompson announced they were getting a divorce. Later in 2001, he meet Lindsay Brunnock, his current wife, which he married on May 2003.
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