Career

Kenneth Branagh's career started when he went to study at RADA. While he was at RADA, he acted in two TV Shows, To Late to Talk to Billy, and Maybury. When he graduated from RADA, he won the school's Bancroft Award specially for his performance in the Hamlet production. After he graduated, he participated in the production of Another Country in the West End Stage, this play made him more successful and he won the Most Promising Newcomer Award by Society of West End Theatres. Later he turned down an offer at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) to make his own production, The Madness. But the RSC wanted him, they made him another offer, they gave him the opportunity to make history and when he was 23 he was the youngest RSC actor ever to be in Henry V. After he worked at the RSC, in 1987 he quit and with his colleague David Parfitt created the Renaissance Theatre Company. The first work they did was the production of Public Enemy. In 1989 Henry V came out, and Branagh was nominated for an Oscar as actor and director of Henry V. Also when Hamlet came out in 1996 he got nominated for an Oscar for his Screenplay.


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