Editing Kenneth Branagh (section)

== Personal life ==
[[File:Kenneth Branagh at the Roma Fiction Fest 2009 by Giorgia Meschini.jpg|thumb|Branagh at Roma Fiction Fest in 2009]]
From 1989 to 1995, Branagh was married to English actress [[Emma Thompson]], who appeared with him in ''[[Fortunes of War (TV series)|Fortunes of War]]'', ''Look Back in Anger'', ''Henry V'', ''Much Ado About Nothing'', ''[[Dead Again]]'', and ''[[Peter's Friends]]''. During their marriage, while directing and starring in ''[[Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (film)|Mary Shelley's Frankenstein]]'' (1994), he began an affair with his co-star [[Helena Bonham Carter]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2018/02/28/emma-thompson-acting-love-actually-betrayal-had-heart-badly/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2018/02/28/emma-thompson-acting-love-actually-betrayal-had-heart-badly/ |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Emma Thompson on acting Love Actually betrayal: 'I had my heart very badly broken by Kenneth Branagh'|last=Hedges-Stocks|first=Zoah|date=28 February 2018|work=Daily Telegraph|access-date=3 April 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> After Thompson divorced him, he and Bonham Carter were in a well-publicised relationship until 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/love-actually-emma-thompson-reveals-155428464.html|title='Love, Actually': Emma Thompson Reveals Heartbreaking Joni Mitchell Scene Inspired by Kenneth Branagh Divorce|date=28 February 2018|work=Yahoo! Entertainment|access-date=3 April 2020}}</ref> In 2003, he married film art director Lindsay Brunnock,<ref>White p. 271</ref> whom he met during the shooting of ''Shackleton'' in 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/kenneth_branagh_biog/8 |title=Kenneth Branagh Biography |publisher=Tiscali UK |access-date=17 January 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070713060829/http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/kenneth_branagh_biog/8 |archive-date=13 July 2007 }}</ref>

Branagh has said that he considers himself Irish.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sir Kenneth Branagh, Belfast and the BBC| website=[[YouTube]] | date=30 April 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTcTDVVtIj0}}</ref> He has said that he became "much more religious" after listening to [[Laurence Olivier]]'s dramatic reading of the [[Bible]] every morning in preparation for his role as Olivier in ''[[My Week with Marilyn]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kenneth Branagh on Sir Laurence Olivier in 'My Week With Marilyn': 'He Was Impatient'|url=https://www.branaghcompendium.com/artic-mwwm_moviefone_november2011.html|date=18 November 2011|website=www.branaghcompendium.com|access-date=11 May 2020}}</ref>