Before he was Hamlet, Kenneth Branagh played Laertes, with Frances Barber (for those who watch Doctor Who, she recently played Madame Kovarian) as Ophelia.
1984 RST/1985 Barbican: Ron Daniels (director); Maria Bjornson (design); Chris Ellis (lighting); Nigel Hess (music) Roger Rees (Hamlet), Brian Blessed (Claudius), Virginia McKenna (Gertrude), Frances Barber (Ophelia), Frank Middlemass (Polonius), Nicholas Farrell (Horatio), Richard Easton (Ghost), Kenneth Branagh (Laertes), Christopher Ravenscroft (Rosencrantz), Arthur Kohn (Guildenstern), Bernard Horsfall (Player King), Sebastian Shaw (First Gravedigger), Derek Crewe (Second Gravedigger), Andrew Hall (Osric), James Simmons (Fortinbras), Jim Hooper (Reynaldo).
Kenneth Branagh in a stage production of Hamlet (1984)
Before he was Hamlet,...played Laertes, with Frances Barber (for those who watch Doctor...
could this dude love shakespeare more