Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh (born December 10, 1960) is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated Northern Irish actor and film director. He portrayed Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Branagh is well known for his Shakespeare adaptations, a number of which he co-starred in with Emma Thompson, to whom he was married from 1989 to 1995. Thompson portrays Sybill Trelawney in the Harry Potter films. Branagh was later involved with Helena Bonham Carter, who portrays Bellatrix Lestrange in the films.

In 2001, Branagh won an Emmy Award for the TV movie Conspiracy. His remake of Sleuth, with Michael Caine and Jude Law, was released in 2007, to mostly negative reviews.

Selected Filmography (Actor)
Coming Through (1985) ... D.H. Lawrence

Henry V (1989) ... Henry V

Dead Again (1991) ... Roman Strauss/Mike Church

Peter's Friends (1992) ... Andrew Benson

Swing Kids (1993) ... Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)

Much Ado About Nothing (1993) ... Benedick

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) ... Dr. Victor Frankenstein

Othello (1995) ... Iago

William Shakespeare's Hamlet (1996) ... Hamlet

Wild Wild West (1999) ... Dr. Arliss Loveless

Shackleton (2002) (TV) ... Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) ... Gilderoy Lockhart

''Warm Springs (2005) (TV) ... Franklin D. Roosevelt  Valkyrie'' (2008) ... Major-General Henning von Tresckow

Selected Filmography (Director)
Henry V (1989)

Dead Again (1991)

Peter's Friends (1992)

Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)

In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)

William Shakespeare's Hamlet (1996)

Love Labour's Lost (2000)

As You Like It (2006)

Sleuth (2007)

Thor (2011)