Kenneth Branagh started turning Shakespearean plays into movies to make them more widely available and co-founded the Renaissance Theatre Company.
This Irish-born British actor and director was one of just eight performers to win this award and one of only two non-American actors to obtain an Oscar nomination for writing, directing, and acting.
Kenneth Branagh Siblings: Meet Joyce Branagh, William Branagh Jr.
William Branagh, Jr., born in 1955, and Joyce Branagh, born in 1970, are his two siblings.
William Branagh Jr., the brother of Kenneth Branagh, is a business consultant and developer who aids in enhancing other people’s enterprises.
Joyce Branagh has been a working director. Shakespeare and contemporary plays have both been performed by her in theaters around the UK and Ireland.
She has directed popular pantomimes at Watford Palace Theatre for a number of years, either working closely with the writer to construct the plot or serving as the primary writer.