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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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