![]() "I was flattered to be asked to play opposite J-Lo. "The truth is I found it really hard playing the young Republican senator in Maid in Manhattan," Fiennes told The Guardian. The role he found the hardest to play was. And probably very politically incorrect!"ħ. I love the books and I always saw them in black and white, gritty, noirish and very dangerous. "I don't think I would have been very good, but I did feel that I could have had a crack at it if it had been set in the 1950s. "There was a discussion, once, some years ago, about my playing 007," he told The Guardian in 2019. Long before he joined the Bond franchise as M, he was briefly in the running for the title role. His agent Simon Beresford told The Hollywood Reporter that year that Fiennes remains a British citizen, but has "gracefully accepted the honor bestowed on him by the Serbian people in gratitude and appreciation of the work he has done in Serbia over a number of years."įiennes shot both films he's directed, 2011's Coriolanus and 2018's The White Crow, in Serbia.Ħ. He's had honorary Serbian citizenship since 2017. ![]() The two actors met while studying at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and dated for around a decade before tying the knot.ĥ. He rarely discusses his private life – and respect to him for that.īut we do know that he was married to Doctor Who favorite Alex Kingston from 1993 to 1997. He trained me in painting and decorating, how to replace a sash window and so on."Ĥ. He loved using his hands and was very gifted at building shelves and things. I think my love of the theatre comes from her and my approach to work from him. My father was a farmer who became a photographer. "We had food, but it was often packets of soup and mashed potato. ![]() "We struggled financially and grew up with the refrain that we had a big overdraft," Fiennes told The Times in 2018. He's the eldest of six siblings and grew up between England and Ireland. young Voldemort – in Harry and the Half-Blood Prince is actually Fiennes’ nephew Hero Fiennes-Tiffin?!ģ. Oh, and you surely know his brother Joseph Fiennes, a fellow actor famous for Shakespeare in Love and The Handmaid's Tale.īut, did you know that the actor who plays Tom Riddle – a.k.a. He's also related to explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, his third cousin once-removed, who in 1993 became the first person to cross Antarctica completely on foot. His paternal grandfather Sir Maurice Fiennes was an industrialist who was knighted for services to British engineering, while his maternal grandfather Brigadier Henry Alleyne Lash was a prominent officer in the British Indian army. His full name is Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes.Īnd Ralph is pronounced "Rafe" to rhyme with "safe." ![]() To whet your appetite, here are some things you might not know about the darn fine Ralph Fiennes.ġ. In his latest film The Dig, which premieres on Netflix Friday (January 29), he plays Basil Brown, a self-taught British archaeologist who spearheaded one of the most important discoveries of all time. And who can forget his villainous performance as Lord Voldermort in the Harry Potter movies? After winning Oscar nominations for his deeply serious early roles in Schindler's List and The English Patient, he's often subverted our expectations by playing everything from In Bruges' potty-mouthed mob boss to The Grand Budapest Hotel's camp concierge. ![]()
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