1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joseph_feinnes.jpg]] Joseph Alberic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (born 27 May 1970 in Salisbury, England) is an English theatre and film actor. |
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3 | A younger brother of fellow actor Creator/RalphFiennes, he is known for his [[ShakespeareanActors Shakespearean]] background. |
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5 | !!His roles include: |
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7 | * ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'' (1998) - Creator/WilliamShakespeare |
8 | * ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' (1998) - Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester |
9 | * ''Film/EnemyAtTheGates'' (2001) - Commissar Danilov |
10 | * ''WesternAnimation/SinbadLegendOfTheSevenSeas'' (2003) - Prince Proteus |
11 | * ''Film/{{Luther|2003}}'' (2003) - [[UsefulNotes/TheProtestantReformation Martin Luther]] |
12 | * ''Film/TheMerchantOfVenice'' (2004) - Bassanio |
13 | * ''Film/TheDarwinAwards'' (2006) - Michael Burrows |
14 | * ''Film/TheRedBaron'' (2008) - Captain Roy Brown |
15 | * ''Series/{{Camelot}}'' (2011) - Myth/{{Merlin}} |
16 | * ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum'' (2012-13) - Monsignor Timothy Howard |
17 | * ''[[Film/{{Hercules2014}} Hercules]]'' (2014) - King Eurystheus |
18 | * ''Film/{{Risen}}'' (2016) - Tribune Clavius |
19 | * ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'' (2017-) - Commander Fred Waterford |
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21 | !!Tropes in his works: |
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23 | * AwesomeDearBoy: He did ''{{Series/Camelot}}'' because he liked the idea of a DarkerAndEdgier King Arthur storyline. |
24 | * DyeingForYourArt: Lost 21 lbs in order to play a prisoner of war in ''The Great Raid''. |
25 | * FakeAmerican: ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'' as The Commander, ''Film/RunningWithScissors'' as Neil, ''The Great Raid'' as Major Gibson and ''Series/FlashForward'' as Mark. |
26 | * HollywoodHypeMachine: A defied example. After the double whammy of ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'' and ''{{Film/Elizabeth}}'', he started getting hyped up by the press and made it to People's list of sexiest men alive in 1999. But he turned down a lot of roles in order to focus on stage work - notably ''Film/ThePianist'', ''A Good Woman'', ''{{Film/Quills}}'' - and declined the offer to sign a five picture deal with Miramax. |
27 | * PlayingAgainstType: ''Series/FlashForward'' is a non period-piece, and a sci-fi thriller series at that. He plays an FBI agent as opposed to his usual hammy writers or lotharios. |
28 | * RomanceOnTheSet: He met his wife Natalie Mendoza while filming ''The Great Raid''. |
29 | * StarMakingRole: ''Film/ShakespeareInLove''. |
30 | * {{Typecasting}}: He's heavily associated with Elizabethan era period pieces. Both his two most remembered roles - William Shakespeare and Robert Dudley - were cheating on their wives with the female lead. |
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