Kenneth Branagh
Gilderoy Lockhart
Full name: Kenneth Branagh
DOB: 10 December 1960
Birth place: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Short biography:
Branagh was born in Belfast and attented Grove Primary School until his family moved to Reading, England when he was nine. He received an honorary doctorate in Literature from the Queen's University of Belfast in 1990. The actor achieved some measure of success in his native Northern Ireland for his role as the title character in the BBC's Play for Today series The Billy Plays, which was set in Belfast.
Filmography:
- The Magic Flute (2006) (post-production)
- Warm Springs (2005) (TV) .... Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Five Children and It (2004) .... Uncle Albert
... aka Cinq enfants et moi (France)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) .... Professor Gilderoy Lockhart
... aka Harry Potter und die Kammer des Schreckens (Germany)
- Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) .... A.O. Neville
- Shackleton (2002) (TV) .... Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
- Alien Love Triangle (2002) .... Steven Chesterman
- Conspiracy (2001) (TV) .... SS Gen. Reinhard Heydrich
- Schneider's 2nd Stage (2001) .... Joseph Barnett
- The Science of Big Al (2000) (TV) .... Narrator (UK version)
... aka Big Al Uncovered (USA)
- How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000) .... Peter McGowan
- The Road to El Dorado (2000) (voice) .... Miguel
- Love's Labour's Lost (2000) .... Berowne
... aka Peines d'amour perdues (Canada: French title) (France)
- Wild Wild West (1999) .... Dr. Arliss Loveless
- The Periwig-Maker (1999) (voice) .... Periwig-maker
... aka Perückenmacher, Der (Germany)
- The Dance of Shiva (1998) .... Col. Evans
- The Theory of Flight (1998) .... Richard
- Celebrity (1998) .... Lee Simon
- The Proposition (1998) .... Father Michael McKinnon
- The Gingerbread Man (1998) .... Rick Magruder
- Hamlet (1996) .... Hamlet
... aka William Shakespeare's Hamlet
- Othello (1995) .... Iago
- Shadow of a Gunman (1995) (TV) .... Donal Davoren
... aka Performance: Shadow of a Gunman (UK: series title)
- Frankenstein (1994) .... Victor Frankenstein
... aka Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- Much Ado About Nothing (1993) .... Benedick
The rest of his filmography can be found
here.
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