Joseph Fiennes
Biography
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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Acting History
2025
Prisoner 951 as Richard Ratcliffe
2024Fiennes: Return to the Wild as Himself
2024Royal Kill List as Narrator
2024National Theatre Live: Dear England as Gareth Southgate
2023The Mother as Adrian
2022Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self
2019Sherwood as Sheriff Nottingham
2019Egypt With The World's Greatest Explorer as Self
2017The Handmaid's Tale as Fred Waterford
2016On Wings of Eagles as Eric Liddell
2016Shakespeare Live! From the RSC as Self
2016Risen as Clavius
2015Strangerland as Matthew Parker
2014Hercules as King Eurystheus
2014The Games Maker as Morodian
2013Wild Kingdom as Narrator
2013The Great British Year as Narrator
2011American Horror Story as Monsignor Timothy Howard
2011Camelot as Merlin
2011Shakespeare in the Present
2010A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation as Boy (voice)
2009FlashForward as Mark Benford
2009Against the Current as Paul Thompson
2008The Escapist as Lenny Drake
2008The Red Baron as Captain Roy Brown
2007Spring 1941 as Artur Planck
2007The Darwin Awards as Michael Burrows
2007Goodbye Bafana as James Gregory
2006Running with Scissors as Neil Bookman
2005The Great Raid as Major Gibson
2005Man to Man as Jamie Dodd
2004The Merchant of Venice as Bassanio
2003Luther as Martin Luther
2003Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas as Proteus (voice)
2002Killing Me Softly as Adam
2002Leo as Stephen
2001Dust as Elijah
2001Enemy at the Gates as Commisar Danilov
2000Rancid Aluminium as Sean Deeny
1999Forever Mine as Manuel Esquema / Alan Riply
1999Teen Choice Awards as Self
1998Shakespeare in Love as Will Shakespeare
1998Elizabeth as Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
1998The Very Thought of You as Laurence
1998Animated Epics: Beowulf as Beowulf ( voice )
1996Stealing Beauty as Christopher Fox
1995The Vacillations of Poppy Carew as Willy
—The Way of the Wind
—Young Sherlock as Silas Holmes
—Pretty/Handsome as Bob Fitzpayne
—Dear England as Gareth Southgate