Sir Kenneth Branagh wins the Special Award at the Olivier Awards 2017 with Mastercard ceremony.
Awarded Best Newcomer by the Olivier Awards in 1982, his career has since spanned stage, film and television where he has received acclaim as both an actor and director. Branagh’s stage acting credits include Another Country, Henry V, Golden Girls, three productions of Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet (also directed), Public Enemy, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, Look Back in Anger, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (also directed), King Lear (also directed), Coriolanus, Richard III, Edmond, Ivanov, The Painkiller and Macbeth (also co- directed). The plays he has directed also include John Sessions’ The Life of Napoleon and Napoleon - The American Story, Twelfth Night, Uncle Vanya, The Play What I Wrote, and Ducktastic.
Most recently the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company put on its inaugural West End season with Plays at the Garrick. The 2016 season comprised seven plays, received eight Olivier Award nominations and three productions - The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet and The Entertainer - were seen in cinemas across the world by over 430,000 people.
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