(Born Dec. 10, 1960) Kenneth Branagh is a British actor and film director. He has worked on both stage and screen. He is probably best known for his popular film adaptations of the works of William Shakespeare, beginning with Henry V in 1989 and including versions of Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Love's Labour's Lost (2000) and Hamlet (1996). He starred several times with his then wife, Emma Thompson; they were married in 1989, and divorced in 1995.