Joseph Fiennes

Known for: Acting

Born: 1970-05-27 (age 56)

From: 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joseph Fiennes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography (53)

TV★ 5.8
Dear England
2026
as Gareth Southgate
TV★ 7.9
Young Sherlock
2026
as Silas Holmes
TV★ 5.2
Prisoner 951
2025
as Richard Ratcliffe
TV★ 8.0
Fiennes: Return to the Wild
2024
as Self
TV★ 8.0
Royal Kill List
2024
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE
National Theatre Live: Dear England
2024
as Gareth Southgate
MOVIE★ 6.6
The Mother
2023
as Adrian
TV★ 2.8
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self
TV★ 7.3
Sherwood
2019
as Sheriff Nottingham
TV★ 10.0
Egypt with the World's Greatest Explorer
2019
as Self
TV★ 8.2
The Handmaid's Tale
2017
as Fred Waterford
MOVIE★ 5.7
On Wings of Eagles
2016
as Eric Liddell
MOVIE★ 7.2
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.3
Risen
2016
as Clavius
MOVIE★ 5.3
Strangerland
2015
as Matthew Parker
MOVIE★ 5.8
Hercules
2014
as King Eurystheus
MOVIE★ 5.4
The Games Maker
2014
as Morodian
TV
Wild Kingdom
2013
as Narrator
TV
The Great British Year
2013
as Narrator
TV★ 8.1
American Horror Story
2011
as Monsignor Timothy Howard
TV★ 6.3
Camelot
2011
as Merlin
MOVIE
Shakespeare in the Present
2011
MOVIE★ 7.0
A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation
2010
as Boy (voice)
TV★ 7.0
FlashForward
2009
as Mark Benford
MOVIE★ 5.4
Against the Current
2009
as Paul Thompson
MOVIE★ 6.2
The Escapist
2008
as Lenny Drake
MOVIE★ 6.6
The Red Baron
2008
as Captain Roy Brown
MOVIE★ 6.3
Spring 1941
2007
as Artur Planck
MOVIE★ 5.5
The Darwin Awards
2007
as Michael Burrows
MOVIE★ 6.9
Goodbye Bafana
2007
as James Gregory
MOVIE★ 5.8
Running with Scissors
2006
as Neil Bookman
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Great Raid
2005
as Major Gibson
MOVIE★ 6.3
Man to Man
2005
as Jamie Dodd
MOVIE★ 6.8
The Merchant of Venice
2004
as Bassanio
MOVIE★ 6.5
Luther
2003
as Martin Luther
MOVIE★ 7.0
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
2003
as Proteus (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.6
Killing Me Softly
2002
as Adam
MOVIE★ 6.1
Leo
2002
as Stephen
MOVIE★ 5.5
Dust
2001
as Elijah
MOVIE★ 7.4
Enemy at the Gates
2001
as Commisar Danilov
MOVIE★ 6.4
Scary Movie
2000
as William Shakespeare (archival footage)
MOVIE★ 3.7
Rancid Aluminium
2000
as Sean Deeny
MOVIE★ 5.3
Forever Mine
1999
as Manuel Esquema / Alan Riply
TV★ 9.1
Teen Choice Awards
1999
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.8
Shakespeare in Love
1998
as Will Shakespeare
MOVIE★ 7.2
Elizabeth
1998
as Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
MOVIE★ 5.7
The Very Thought of You
1998
as Laurence
MOVIE★ 5.5
Animated Epics: Beowulf
1998
as Beowulf ( voice )
TV
Elle Style Awards
1997
as Self - Winner
MOVIE★ 6.7
Stealing Beauty
1996
as Christopher Fox
MOVIE★ 5.0
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
1995
as Willy
TV★ 2.8
Pretty/Handsome
—
as Bob Fitzpayne
MOVIE
The Way of the Wind
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