Joseph Fiennes

Joseph Fiennes

Born: May 27, 1970
in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
Joseph Alberic Iscariot Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (born 27 May 1970) is an English film and stage actor.

He is perhaps best known for his portrayals of William Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love, Sir Robert Dudley in Elizabeth, Commisar Danilov in Enemy at the Gates, Martin Luther in Luther, and his portrayal of Mark Benford in the 2009 TV series FlashForward.

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Title: Royal Kill List
Character: Narrator
Released: March 12, 2024
Type: TV
After the unprecedented public execution of King Charles I in 1649, his son and heir set out on a relentless campaign to restore the monarchy and pursue all those connected to his father's death. The epic story of bloody revenge during a pivotal period of English history. This is a story about espionage, revenge, power, loyalty, and the moment that changed the landscape of British politics and society forever.
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National Theatre Live: Dear England
Title: National Theatre Live: Dear England
Character: Gareth Southgate
Released: January 25, 2024
Type: Movie
The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t England’s men win at their own game? With the worst track record for penalties in the world, Gareth Southgate knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt, to take team and country back to the promised land.
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The Mother
Title: The Mother
Character: Adrian
Released: May 4, 2023
Type: Movie
A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.
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Title: Sherwood
Character: Sheriff Nottingham
Released: March 6, 2019
Type: TV
All her life, teen-hacker Robin of Sherwood thought she was an orphan. But when a mysterious Gauntlet unlocks a secret that turns her world upside down, Robin joins forces with a group of renegades who teach her the true value of love, loyalty, and sacrifice. Through the flooded storm-lashed streets of 23rd century London, to the towering citadel of the floating Upper City, Robin and her new friends battle the elements and the odds to defeat the mad Sheriff of Nottingham.
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Title: Egypt With The World's Greatest Explorer
Character: Self
Released: February 27, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: The Handmaid's Tale
Character: Commander Fred Waterford
Released: April 26, 2017
Type: TV
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.
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On Wings of Eagles
Title: On Wings of Eagles
Character: Eric Liddell
Released: June 17, 2016
Type: Movie
Eric Liddell - China's first gold medalist and one of Scotland's greatest athletes - returns to war-torn China.
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Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Title: Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Character: Self
Released: April 23, 2016
Type: Movie
From the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, David Tennant, Catherine Tate and guests mark the life of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death.
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Risen
Title: Risen
Character: Clavius
Released: February 18, 2016
Type: Movie
Clavius, a powerful Roman military tribune, and his aide, Lucius, are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in Jerusalem.
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Strangerland
Title: Strangerland
Character: Matthew Parker
Released: July 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Newly arrived to a remote desert town, Catherine and Matthew are tormented by a suspicion when their two teenage children mysteriously vanish.
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Hercules
Title: Hercules
Character: King Eurystheus
Released: July 23, 2014
Type: Movie
When a new enemy threatens the innocent, Hercules must lead his fearless team of warriors in a battle against overwhelming odds.
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The Games Maker
Title: The Games Maker
Character: Morodian
Released: July 3, 2014
Type: Movie
Young Ivan Drago's newfound love of board games catapults him into the fantastical and competitive world of game invention, and pits him against the inventor Morodian, who has long desired to destroy the city of Zyl, founded by Ivan's grandfather. To save his family and defeat Morodian, Ivan must come to know what it is to be a true games maker.
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Title: Wild Kingdom
Character: Narrator
Released: October 12, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: The Great British Year
Character: Narrator
Released: October 2, 2013
Type: TV
The range of seasons in Britain are as extraordinary as the climate is unique. The splendour of the autumn colour change is as magnificent as anywhere on earth, while the animal migration is of planet-wide importance. For the first time, the BBC Natural History Unit's filming techniques and expertise are focused on Britain.
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Title: American Horror Story
Character: Monsignor Timothy Howard
Released: October 5, 2011
Type: TV
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.
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Title: Camelot
Character: Merlin
Released: February 25, 2011
Type: TV
Camelot is a historical-fantasy-drama television series based on the Arthurian legend, was produced by Graham King, Morgan O'Sullivan and Michael Hirst.
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Shakespeare in the Present
Title: Shakespeare in the Present
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
For the first time ever on DVD, experience the acclaimed work of Master Teacher Patsy Rodenburg! Filmed on the stages of Michael Howard Studios in New York and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, this comprehensive series brings you Patsy's unique approach to voice and acting through the work of history's greatest playwright. Throughout this 8-disc collection, explore Patsy's highly sough-after techniques and exercises in Movement, Speech, Body, Vocal Warmup, Owning, Scaffolding, Givens & "Second Circle". In addition, Patsy works one-on-one with actors performing speeches from Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, King Lear, and many more. Watch Patsy's techniques come to life through renowned actors Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love, Elizabeth), Lynn Cohen (Munich, Sex and the City), Jay O. Sanders (Revolutionary Road, Green Lantern), and others.
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A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation
Title: A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation
Character: Boy (voice)
Released: June 25, 2010
Type: Movie
When his father dies unexpectedly, a young man seeking to cope with his grief goes on a powerful emotional journey through time and space.
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Title: FlashForward
Character: Mark Benford
Released: September 24, 2009
Type: TV
When the entire world blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds, everyone sees a flash of their own future 6 months from the present. For some, the future is hopeful, while for others, it is unexpected. For a few, it doesn't seem to exist. Knowing their fate will alter each person's life, destinies will be changed.
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Against the Current
Title: Against the Current
Character: Paul Thompson
Released: January 18, 2009
Type: Movie
Struggling with a tragic past, a man with an urgent calling enlists two friends to help him swim the length of the Hudson River.
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The Escapist
Title: The Escapist
Character: Lenny Drake
Released: June 20, 2008
Type: Movie
Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined to make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists - misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but united by their desire to escape their hell hole of an existence.
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The Red Baron
Title: The Red Baron
Character: Captain Roy Brown
Released: March 29, 2008
Type: Movie
Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of honour. Before long he begins to understand that his hero status is deceptive. His love for Kate, a nurse, opens his eyes to the brutality of war.
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Spring 1941
Title: Spring 1941
Character: Artur Planck
Released: September 28, 2007
Type: Movie
After Germany invades Poland and the Nazis order the confinement of all local Jews in the ghetto, medical doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes) manages to flee with his family, seeking refuge at the farm of Emilia (Kelly Harrison), their former grocer. With the Planck family hiding in her attic, Emilia finds her feelings for the physician growing stronger than she wants, or can control -- despite the dangers of the situation.
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Goodbye Bafana
Title: Goodbye Bafana
Character: James Gregory
Released: February 11, 2007
Type: Movie
The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
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Running with Scissors
Title: Running with Scissors
Character: Neil Bookman
Released: October 27, 2006
Type: Movie
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.
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The Darwin Awards
Title: The Darwin Awards
Character: Michael Burrows
Released: July 5, 2006
Type: Movie
After botching the capture of a notorious serial killer, idiosyncratic detective Michael Burrows loses his job with the San Francisco Police. He becomes an investigator for an insurance company and joins forces with a cynical field agent to probe suspicious and unusual deaths.
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The Great Raid
Title: The Great Raid
Character: Major Gibson
Released: August 12, 2005
Type: Movie
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.
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Man to Man
Title: Man to Man
Character: Jamie Dodd
Released: April 13, 2005
Type: Movie
An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape.
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The Merchant of Venice
Title: The Merchant of Venice
Character: Bassanio
Released: December 3, 2004
Type: Movie
Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and ask him for a loan.
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Luther
Title: Luther
Character: Martin Luther
Released: October 29, 2003
Type: Movie
During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Title: Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Character: Proteus (voice)
Released: July 2, 2003
Type: Movie
The sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retrieve it and save the life of his childhood friend Prince Proteus.
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Killing Me Softly
Title: Killing Me Softly
Character: Adam
Released: May 10, 2002
Type: Movie
A woman grows suspicious of her controlling husband after she discovers secrets about the women in his past.
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Leo
Title: Leo
Character: Stephen
Released: March 12, 2002
Type: Movie
A young mother is plagued by a tragic mistake and alienates her little boy. A brilliant writer is released from prison after serving a 15-year sentence and begins working at Vic's Diner. Their stories converge when the man must overcome obstacles of the past to save the little boy and ultimately himself.
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Dust
Title: Dust
Character: Elijah
Released: August 29, 2001
Type: Movie
Two parallel tales of redemption, a century apart. In the New York storyline, Edge hunts for Angela's gold to pay back a debt, and gradually grows closer to her. In the Macedonian story, the brothers end up fighting for opposite sides of a revolution, with the religious Elijah taking up sides with the Ottoman sultan and gunslinger Luke joining "the Teacher" , a Macedonian rebel.
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Enemy at the Gates
Title: Enemy at the Gates
Character: Commisar Danilov
Released: February 28, 2001
Type: Movie
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
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Rancid Aluminium
Title: Rancid Aluminium
Character: Sean Deeny
Released: January 21, 2000
Type: Movie
Pete Thompson thinks he has it all. However, following the death of his father his close friend and accountant reveals the company he has been left is bust and the only way out is to do business with the Russian mafia. His life and heart are on the line when he leave to restore the fortunes of the family firm.
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Forever Mine
Title: Forever Mine
Character: Manuel Esquema/ Alan Riply
Released: December 9, 1999
Type: Movie
A hotel cabana boy falls for the wife of a powerful politico. But when she confesses to the affair, her husband determines to end it forever.
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Title: Teen Choice Awards
Character: Self - Nominee: Sexiest Love Scene
Released: August 1, 1999
Type: TV
The Teen Choice Awards is a teen awards show presented annually by Fox. The first awards were held in 1999. The program honors the year's biggest achievements in music, movies, sports, television, fashion and more, as voted on by teens aged 13–19. The program features a number of celebrities and also musical performers. The winners are awarded with authentic mini size (182 cm) surfboards designed with a summertime theme. The ceremony has created spin-off teen awards on YouTube.
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Shakespeare in Love
Title: Shakespeare in Love
Character: Will Shakespeare
Released: December 11, 1998
Type: Movie
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship progresses, Shakespeare's comedy soon transforms into tragedy.
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Elizabeth
Title: Elizabeth
Character: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Released: September 13, 1998
Type: Movie
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.
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The Very Thought of You
Title: The Very Thought of You
Character: Laurence
Released: May 8, 1998
Type: Movie
Laurence recounts to his neighbour how his life long friendship with Frank and Daniel has been overturned in just three days by their each independently meeting, and falling for, Martha, who has no idea of their connection. Slowly the tale unfolds, the narrative moving backwards and forwards gradually filling in the gaps until we see the whole picture
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Animated Epics: Beowulf
Title: Animated Epics: Beowulf
Character: Beowulf ( voice )
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Swords fly as Beowulf battles the evil Grendel in this exciting animated adaptation of the epic poem. Incorporating fascinating sketch art and featuring the voice of Joseph Fiennes as Beowulf. found.
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Stealing Beauty
Title: Stealing Beauty
Character: Christopher Fox
Released: March 29, 1996
Type: Movie
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.
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The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
Title: The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
Character: Willy
Released: March 5, 1995
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the novel by Mary Wesley.
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Title: Pretty/Handsome
Character: Bob Fitzpayne
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A married gynecologist, father of two sons, slowly comes to terms with the fact that he wants to undergo sexual reassignment surgery.
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The Way of the Wind
Title: The Way of the Wind
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ.