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NAME: Joseph Fiennes
PROFILE: Name: Joseph Fiennes
Birth Name: Joseph Alberic Fiennes
Height: 6'
Sex: M
Nationality: British
Birth Date: May 27, 1970
Birth Place: Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
Profession: actor
Education: Young Vic Youth Theatre in London, England
Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England (attended on scholarship)
Relationship: Natalie Imbruglia (singer; dating as of December 1999), Catherine McCormack (actress; dated summer 1999), Sara Griffiths (actress; together 1992-1998)
Father: Mark Fiennes (farmer, photographer)
Mother: Jini Fiennes (aka Jennifer Lash; novelist, writer; born in 1939; died on Christmas 1993 from breast cancer)
Sister: Martha Fiennes (director; born in 1964), Sophie Victoria Fiennes (producer; older)
Brother: Ralph Fiennes (actor; born on December 22, 1962), Magnus Hubert Fiennes (musician; older), Jacob Mark Fiennes (gamekeeper; fraternal twin of Joseph), Michael Fiennes (archeologist)
Uncle: Sir Ranulph Fiennes (explorer)
Claim to fame: as Will Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Contact: Click here
GOSSIP:
  • Has reportedly found love with former Miss Switzerland finalist Maria Dolores Dieguez whom he first met in June 2005 at an Italian film festival. (October 30, 2006)
  • Will appear in six plays written and directed in the space of 24 hour, in a bid to raise funds for London's Old Vic. (June 9, 2005)
  • Accused Kevin Spacey of encouraging dull, formal theatres - by criticizing noisy audiences. (2004)
  • In 1998, he played two different men in the Elizabethan era: Robert Dudley in ELIZABETH (1998) and William Shakespeare in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998). Both of these men were cheating on their wives. The women he cheated with were both nominated for Best Actress Academy Awards: Cate Blanchett for ELIZABETH (1998) and Gwyneth Paltrow (who won) for SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998).
  • His full name is Joseph Alberic Fiennes. Joseph derives from Yosef meaning addition to family, the origin is Hebrew; Alberic is a family name he shares with a grandfather and some other ancestors; it's German for King of the Elves.
  • Both Joseph and his brother, Ralph Fiennes, have romanced the same leading lady, Cate Blanchett, in different films; Joseph in ELIZABETH (1998) and Ralph in OSCAR AND LUCINDA (1997).
  • While it is already mentioned how Fiennes' characters in Shakespeare in Love and Elizabeth were both married and cheating on their wives, there is more. Both the characters failed to tell their lovers that he was married, and both the lovers found out by someone else.
  • He was a vegetarian once because one of his former girlfriends was but since then got a taste for meat again. He loves sushi; fruit juice (strawberry-mango-kiwi juice in particular); seafood; passion fruit; the tapas in Granada (Spain); the chips at Munchies in Clapham (England)
  • He has been nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - SKAKESPEARE IN LOVE in British Academy of Film & Television Arts; Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role - SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE in Screen Actors Guild; Best Supporting Actor - ELIZABETH in London Critics Circle; Best British Actor – ELIZABETH in Empire Magazine Awards; Best British Actor - SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE in Empire Film Awards.
  • Fiennes and Geoffrey Rush also co-star in ELIZABETH (1998), released the same year with SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998), concerning the same queen, and, like this film, garnering Oscar nominations as well.
  • Nominated for Best Breakthrough Male Performance at MTV Movie Awards for SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1999)
  • Nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role at BAFTA Awards for SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1999)
  • Nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role at Screen Actors Guild Awards for SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1999)
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