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Actor, director, and producer Kenneth Branagh will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Rome Fiction Fest, according to Variety.

Branagh's many stage credits include Another Country, Twelth Night, As You Like It, Look Back in Anger, Richard III, Edmond, and most recently, Ivanov at the Donmar Warehouse. His film work includes adaptations of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Love's Labours Lost, and Othello. He will soon direct Thor, based on the famed comic book, and recently won a producing BAFTA award for Wallander, in which he also stars.