Name: Kenneth Branagh
Age: 51
Character: Laurence Olivier in My Week With Marilyn
Film: In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark, just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller.
Nearly 40 years on, his diary account ‘The Prince, the Showgirl and Me’ was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as ‘My Week with Marilyn’ - this is the story of that week.
Previous Golden Globe Wins: Branagh has no previous Golden Globe nominations.
Previous Golden Globe Nominations: He does have three other nominations: Best Actor in Miniseries or Television Film for Conspiracy, Warm Springs and Wallander.
Award/Nominations for role: Branagh has been nominated at the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Satellite Award, Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards, Washington D.C. area Film Critics Association Awards
Critics: “And Kenneth Branagh is superb as the exacerbated Laurence Olivier who struggles to direct Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl.” - FemaleFirst
“It's an enchanting tragi-comedy, a hugely enjoyable trifle, and may prove an eye-opener to generations too young to remember the allure of Marilyn Monroe.” - Daily Mail
“Delightfully evocative of a bygone era of film-making.” - Radio Times
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