I am sure Kenneth Branaugh has talked about his family and formative years before, but for some reason I found this recent MakingOf interview with him (conducted by Christine Aylward) to be quite engaging.

Consider this excerpt from the interview (about his younger days):

So I decided to start finding out what that meant. I come from a background where there’s no show biz, no entertainment background. I mean, we’re all Irish, so everybody sung and told stories and did things. Family do’s were always full of people who’d got a bit of a turn in them. They could do a poem or a song or something. But the road to understanding how I could, from a working-class background - Belfast originally, and then to Redding, which is about 40 miles west of London and where I lived, suburban Enfield - it was a big jump to make.