Other contemporary British film directors include Paul W. S. Anderson, Andrea Arnold, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Danny Boyle, Terence Davies, Mike Figgis, Terry Gilliam, Tom Hooper, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Sam Mendes, Alan Parker, Sally Potter, Lynne Ramsay, Guy Ritchie, Michael Winterbottom, Edgar Wright, Joe Wright and Matthew Vaughn.

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Shakespeare experts Sir John Gielgud and Kenneth Branagh consider the definitive rendition of the Bard's tragic tale to be the 1964 Russian film Gamlet () based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with a score by Dmitri Shostakovich.

In contrast to Zeffirelli, whose Hamlet was heavily cut, Kenneth Branagh adapted, directed, and starred in a 1996 version containing every word of Shakespeare's play, combining the material from the F1 and Q2 texts.

" Flamboyant Realist: Kenneth Branagh ".

* In the commentary for the 2011 film Thor, director Kenneth Branagh hypothesized that Thor's Hammer is composed of neutronium, since it is explicitly stated in the film that the hammer was forged from a dying star.

Olivier both stars and directs, as Kenneth Branagh was to do over forty years later in his successful remake.

** Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and director

* 1985 Barbican Theatre, Kenneth Branagh as Henry ( Royal Shakespeare Company )

The second major film, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh in 1989, attempts to give a more realistic evocation of the period and lays more emphasis on the horrors of war.

** Henry V ( 1989 film ), a film adaptation of Shakespeare's play, directed by Kenneth Branagh

** Swan Song -- Kenneth Branagh, David Parfitt

The other six included: Orson Welles ( Citizen Kane ), Laurence Olivier ( Hamlet ), Woody Allen ( Annie Hall ), Kenneth Branagh ( Henry V ), Kevin Costner ( Dances with Wolves ), and Roberto Benigni ( Life Is Beautiful ).

Dench's contribution was a staging of Much Ado About Nothing, set in the Napoleonic era, which starred Kenneth Branagh and Samantha Bond as Benedick and Beatrice.

In 2007, the BBC issued The Judi Dench Collection, DVDs of eight television dramas: Talking to a Stranger quartet ( 1966 ), Keep an Eye on Amélie ( 1973 ), The Cherry Orchard ( 1981 ), Going Gently ( 1981 ), Ghosts ( with Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson and Michael Gambon, 1987 ), Make and Break ( with Robert Hardy, 1987 ), Can You Hear Me Thinking?

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

Branagh, Kenneth Charles ( full name ); Sir Kenneth

Others included Bruce Payne, Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman, Anton Lesser, Kenneth Branagh and Fiona Shaw.

During this period another ' new wave ' of actors emerges at the Academy, including Jonathan Pryce, Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman, Anton Lesser, Kenneth Branagh, Bruce Payne and Fiona Shaw.

RADA has a number of notable associate members including Jane Asher, Sir Michael Gambon, Robert Bourne, Kenneth Branagh, Jon Cryer, Richard Digby Day, Trevor Eve, Ralph Fiennes, Edward Fox, Iain Glen, Gerald Harper, Sir Ian Holm, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Derek Jacobi, Patricia Kneale, Paul McGann, Dame Helen Mirren, Sir Trevor Nunn, Peter O ' Toole, Dame Diana Rigg, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, Lord Snowdon, Shelley Thompson, Alan Rickman, Timothy Dalton and Sir Roger Moore.

* Kenneth Branagh ( born 1960 ), actor and film director

On 7 September 2006, Kenneth Branagh announced at the Venice Film Festival his new film of the play, with the screenplay by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter.

* Hamlet directed by Adrian Noble starring Kenneth Branagh ( 1992 )

* Kenneth Branagh

* Mole, an anthropomorphic mole, a main character in the children's novel The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

While the recurring character of Michael Eddington ( played by Kenneth Marshall ) in Deep Space Nine was a member of the Maquis, Voyager contained three regular Maquis characters, Chakotay ( Robert Beltran ), Seska ( Martha Hackett ) and B ' Elanna Torres ( Roxann Dawson ), as well as Tom Paris ( Robert Duncan McNeill ), a regular character that had been captured and imprisoned for joining the Maquis.

It was presented by Jonathan James-Moore and included interviews with Ron Moody, Bill Pertwee, Eric Merriman's son Andy, Brian Cooke, Barry Took's ex-wife Lyn, and extracts from Kenneth Williams's diary read " in character " by David Benson.

* Badger, a character in the children's book The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Rambling Syd Rumpo was a folk singer character, played by the English comedian and actor, Kenneth Williams, originally in the 1960s BBC Radio comedy series, Round the Horne.

The station's owner was again played by Deayton, though the character name was changed from Sir Norman Tonsil to Sir Kenneth Yellowhammer for the TV series, to serve as one of the show's thinly-veiled references to Sky TV.

Another favourite was Kenneth Williams ' country character, Arthur Fallowfield, who was based on Dorset farmer Ralph Wightman, a regular contributor to the BBC radio programme " Any Questions?

The humour had always been largely derived from their on-stage relationship, but whereas Hills and Green had cast Morecambe as the comic and Wise as the straight man, Braben inverted the relationship ; as theatre critic Kenneth Tynan noted, Braben made Wise's character a comic who was not funny, while Morecambe became a straight man who was funny.

Following Dixon's departure from the show after season five, the producers replaced his character in the sixth season with another black actor, United States Army Air Corps Sergeant Richard Baker ( Kenneth Washington ).

* Kenneth was a mentioned but unseen character in the animated television series Gargoyles.

In his 1978 ballet, Mayerling Kenneth MacMillan portrayed Elisabeth in a pas de deux with her son Prince Rudolf, the principal character in the ballet.

Kenneth Clark, of the Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) which let the franchise, remarked: " We did not quite foresee how much Granada would develop a character which distinguishes it most markedly from the other programmes companies and from the BBC.

The musical piece played during the torch lighting ceremony was entitled " Caliban's Dream ", and Caliban's monologue from Act 3, Scene ii was quoted by Kenneth Branagh in character as Isambard Kingdom Brunel at the start of the Industrial Revolution set piece.

* 22 Kenneth Tobey, prolific character actor ( appeared in about 100 films including: Twelve O ' Clock High, Gunfight at the O. K.

Kennedy concluded Hemingway's " obsession " with indistinct gendering was central to his character, a conclusion also alleged by the critic Mark Spilka and biographer Kenneth Lynn.

Warren Kenneth Worthington III is a fictional character, a comic book superhero who appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics.

In Carry On up the Khyber, Kenneth Williams ' character refers to an over-enthusiastic gongman's attitude as " rank stupidity ".

It was revealed in this episode that he is the cousin of the show's character Kenneth.

Kenneth Robeson was the house name used by Street and Smith Publications as the author of their popular character Doc Savage and later The Avenger.

Once introduced, he appeared dressed as a member of the Gestapo, impersonating Kenneth Mars ' role in The Producers, and performed a number of lines in character before removing his " mask ".

Kenneth E. Hall described Léon as having the similar character configuration of a hitman and the person he protects.

Kenneth ' Hutch ' Hutchinson ( David Soul ), a more reserved and intellectually inclined character.

Manningham-Buller was one of the inspirations for the character of Kenneth Widmerpool in Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time.

Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre is a fictional character created in 1978 by Kenneth Woolner of the University of Waterloo in order to justify the use of a capital L to denote litres.