Top: Jamie Dornan plays Pa, a character based on director Kenneth Branagh’s father, in the upcoming Belfast.
IN JAMIE DORNAN’S childhood home, deep in the suburbs of Belfast, you would always see one photo prominently displayed: a picture of Kenneth Branagh. “My father was a doctor at the Royal Victoria Hospital in West Belfast for his whole career,” the actor explains. “There was a picture that was always up in our house of Ken, my dad, and five or six other doctors, cutting a ribbon from when Ken had come to open a wing of the hospital. It reinforced this idea that this guy, who has gone on to do such unbelievable things, was from Belfast. It was inspiring.”