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Joseph Alberic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, known as Joseph Fiennes, is an English actor. His numerous accolades include an Actor Award as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and a Laurence Olivier Award.
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entertainment · English actor (born 1970) · actor · film actor · voice actor · stage actor · film director · film producer · television actor · also Joseph Fiennes, Fiennes
Born 27 May 1970 · Q223790
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shortlist.com: Sadie Sink, Tom Fletcher, and Ralph Fiennes amongst those shortlisted for 2026 Stage Debut Awards
West End Theatre: Sadie Sink, Ralph Fiennes and Brendan Gleeson lead star-studded Stage Debut Awards 2026 Shortlist
Theatre Weekly: The Stage Debut Awards 2026 shortlist announced with Sadie Sink, Ralph Fiennes and Brendan Gleeson among nominees
The Stage: The Stage Debut Awards 2026: Ralph Fiennes and Sadie Sink among nominees
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The Times: Actor Ralph Fiennes rallies to save village pub
ELLE: Iconic Wes Anderson Film With Ralph Fiennes And 92% Rotten Tomatoes Score Is Leaving Netflix Tomorrow
Public attention spiked: 11,766 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.9× the usual 3,053, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: Television Added a date that was missing
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Public attention spiked: 17,632 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.8× the usual 3,053, with 9 article edits. Coverage that week: “Dear England review – Joseph Fiennes’s Gareth Southgate is a total caricature on TV” (The Guardian).
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The Guardian: Dear England review – Joseph Fiennes’s Gareth Southgate is a total caricature on TV
The Guardian: TV tonight: Joseph Fiennes is uncanny as Gareth Southgate
The Guardian: Joseph Fiennes on parenting, politics and banning children from social media: ‘Stand up, Keir, this is your kids’ generation’
Yahoo: ‘Young Sherlock’ Stars Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Joseph Fiennes Crack the Case on Big Spoilers and Real Chemistry
Yahoo: Joseph Fiennes Recalls Holding Newlywed as She Died After Horse Crushed Her During 'Horrific' Vacation Accident
Appeared in the play Dear England, portraying the England football manager Gareth Southgate
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Was described in The Guardian as "the go-to actor for English cultural history"
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Appeared in the films The Darwin Awards, Running with Scissors, and Goodbye Bafana
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To perform in the one-man play Unicorns, Almost about World War II poet Keith Douglas at the Old Vic
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Lent his voice as Proteus in the DreamWorks animated film Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas opposite Brad Pitt
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Starred in the independent film Killing Me Softly
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Fiennes appeared in the film Enemy at the Gates
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Fiennes appeared in two films that were nominated at the Academy Awards: he played Robert Dudley in Elizabeth and he portrayed William Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love, receiving nominations for the BAFTA Award for Bes
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“It’s part of our national identity. So there’s ‘sweet Britain’, ‘the quintessence of Englishness’, then you peel that away and you’ve got this fierce complexity surrounding the military. It’s interesting.”
Born 1970-05-27.
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