Branagh grew up in Belfast in the 1960s ... what great writing could do… What they made me really understand was that I didn’t have to understand all of [Shakespeare]… but the emotional ...

Sir Kenneth Branagh is a British actor and filmmaker. He is well known for his Shakespearean films, including Henry V (1989), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Othello (1995) and Hamlet (1996).

After eight Oscar nominations, it was a story about his hometown which he left aged nine that won Kenneth Branagh his first ... To be honoured to have Ken ask me to play his grandfather, then ...