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With outrageously long-lashed brown eyes and darkly sensuous looks, Joseph Fiennes has joined his older brother Ralph as the English embodiment of sex for scores of women the world over. After years of working in his brother's shadow, Joseph emerged in 1998 as one of the movie industry's hottest properties, thanks to roles in two back-to-back hits, Elizabeth and Shakespeare in Love. Born May 27, 1970, in Salisbury, England, Fiennes and his twin brother, Jacob, were the youngest of six children, Ralph being the eldest. The son of a photographer father and a novelist mother who went under the nom de plume of Jennifer Lash, Joseph and his siblings had a fairly nomadic upbringing, moving 14 times over the course of the actor's childhood. His parents had strong artistic leanings, something they encouraged among their children, and so Fiennes grew up in a very creative atmosphere. After leaving art school, he began working with the Young Vic Theatre Company and then trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He made his first professional stage appearance in A Month in the Country, in which he performed opposite Helen Mirren. After two seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Fiennes was cast in a cameo role in the 1991 television drama A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia, in which Ralph played the titular hero. Joseph's next role of any importance was in the British TV series The Vacillations of Poppy Carew, which cast him opposite Tara Fitzgerald. Following this, Fiennes made his feature debut in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1996 film Stealing Beauty, in which he had a fairly small part but was able to act in the company of individuals such as Jeremy Irons, Sinéad Cusack, and Liv Tyler. It was 1998 that proved to be Fiennes's breakthrough year. With consecutive roles as Cate Blanchett's lover in Elizabeth and as William Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love, he commanded the audience's attention with performances that were marked by a mix of intensity, charm, and brooding charisma. The fact that he didn't look ridiculous in tights also helped, and by the end of the year, with both films having garnered a score of awards (including seven Oscars for Shakespeare alone), it looked as though Fiennes had finally emerged from behind his brother's shadow, proving that talent, as well as a favorable gene pool, were common currency among his family members. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide less

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The Escapist (2008)
Cast: Brian Cox
Tags: Escape Film Thriller
Length: 103min
A career criminal seeks redemption for himself, his family, and his friends by busting out of a penitentiary in this intelligent hriller. Frank (Brian Cox) is a criminal who was forced to leave his wife and six-year-old daughter behind when he was...
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Against the Current (2008)
Cast: Mary Tyler Moore
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 95min
In this independent drama from writer and director Peter Callahan, Joseph Fiennes stars as Paul, a writer and finance expert who approaches his best friend Jeff (Justin Kirk) with an unusual proposal. When they were kids, Paul and Jeff talked about...
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The Red Baron (2008)
Tags: Adventure Biopic Adventure Drama
Length: 129min
The true story of one of World War One's deadliest air aces comes to the screen in this historical drama. Manfred von Richthofen (Matthias Schweighoefer) became fascinated with flying when he was a boy, and as a young man he joins the German army and...
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Vivaldi (2008)
Cast: Jacqueline Bisset Malcolm McDowell
Tags: Biopic Drama
Length: min
A youthful pastor hired in as the music master at a school for the abandoned and illegitimate daughters of Venice nightwalkers forms a powerful bond with the children that eventually leads him to perform before the pope in director Boris Damast's...
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Spring 1941 (2008)
Length: 122min
A family struggling to survive is confronted by the specters of forbidden love and betrayal in this period drama from director Uri Barbash. Clara Planck (Clare Higgins) is a gifted cellist whose star is on the rise, while her husband Artur Planck...
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Goodbye Bafana (2007)
Cast: Dennis Haysbert
Tags: Social Problem Film Drama Political Drama Docudrama
Length: 118min
Bille August's inspirational docudrama Goodbye Bafana begins in 1968, with South Africa buried neck-deep in the horrors of apartheid and Nelson Mandela (Dennis Haysbert) -- then an underground leader of the African National Congress -- imprisoned on...
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The Merchant of Venice (2004)
Cast: Al Pacino William Shakespeare Jeremy Irons Michael Radford
Tags: Period Film Tragedy Drama
Length: 131min
One of William Shakespeare's most powerful comedies has been given a bold cinematic adaptation in this film version of +The Merchant of Venice. Bassanio (Joseph Fiennes) is a young and vital member of the aristocratic classes in 16th century Italy;...
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The Darwin Awards (2006)
Cast: Winona Ryder David Arquette
Tags: Road Movie Black Comedy Comedy
Length: 94min
When a San Francisco homicide detective with a keen eye for criminal profiling is fired for botching the arrest of a notorious serial killer, his subsequent effort to reinvent himself as an insurance claims case-investigator leads him to study a...
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Running With Scissors (2006)
Cast: Alec Baldwin Brad Pitt Jill Clayburgh Annette Bening Gwyneth Paltrow
Tags: Tragi-comedy Comedy Drama Coming-of-Age
Length: 121min
Screen newcomer Joseph Cross portrays Augusten Burroughs in director Ryan Murphy's film adaptation of author Burroughs' best-selling personal memoir of the same name. A child of the 1970s whose alcoholic father Norman (Alec Baldwin) and delusional,...
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The Great Raid (2005)
Cast: Connie Nielsen Benjamin Bratt Vic Armstrong
Tags: War Drama War
Length: 132min
John Dahl directed this war drama based on the true story of one of the most daring military actions of World War II. In the waning days of World War II, General Douglas MacArthur chose to make good on a pledge that he made in 1942 -- that he would...
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