Acting

Joseph Fiennes

Born 1970-05-27 · 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.

Credits

Newest first

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