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Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh ( ; born 10 December 1960 ) is an actor and film director from Northern Ireland.

He is best known for directing and / or starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including Henry V ( 1989 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director ), Much Ado About Nothing ( 1993 ), Othello ( 1995 ), Hamlet ( 1996 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ), Love's Labour's Lost ( 2000 ), and As You Like It ( 2006 ).