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

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

Appearances as themselves (7)

• Fiennes: Return to the Wild — Self
• Royal Kill List — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg — Self
• Egypt with the World's Greatest Explorer — Self
• 2016Shakespeare Live! From the RSC — Self
• Teen Choice Awards — Self
• Elle Style Awards — Self - Winner