Log in. Forgotten your password? Want an ad-free experience? View offers. The star is honoured at Buckingham Palace, more than 30 years after first performing for the Queen in Hamlet. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player. The Oscar-nominated actor, director and screenwriter, known for his Shakespeare works and more recently as Swedish detective Wallander on the BBC, was knighted in the Queen's birthday honours in June.
The Belfast-born year-old was made a knight bachelor for services to drama and the community of Northern Ireland. Sir Kenneth, who directed the recent Hollywood blockbuster Thor and featured in the Olympics opening ceremony this year, said he felt "humble, elated and incredibly lucky" at the award. Today it feels like they just gave me the shirt and my heart's fit to burst. He moved to Reading with his family when he was nine, where he first adopted an English accent to avoid bullying.
Celebrating the work he does in his homeland, he said: "It is special because it is to do with my roots in Northern Ireland and to do with a lot of work other people do and I'm happy to be associated with, lots of charitable institutions and real hard work on the part of a lot of people over there.
The knighthood comes as press reports suggest Branagh will take on one of the great Shakespearian roles, playing Macbeth for the first time in his career at the Manchester International Festival next summer.
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