Shakespearean Actor In New Potter Film

[Thursday, October 25th, 2001]

Kenneth Branagh will swap Shakespeare for Harry Potter when he takes the role of flamboyant witchcraft professor Gilderoy Lockhart in the next Potter film, AP reports.

The 40-year-old actor-director, best known for bringing Shakespeare to new film audiences, will play the publicity-hungry teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in ``Harry Potter And the Chamber Of Secrets,'' which is to begin filming in December, spokeswoman Sara Keene said Thursday.

He will join the existing teaching staff, whose first adventures with their magical students are depicted in ``Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,'' which opens in the United States on Nov. 16.

Kenneth Branagh has previously played roles in 'Wild Wild West', 'Road to El Dorado' and many more.

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