Martha fiennes ralph fiennes biography
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| Born | Martha Maria Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (age 60–61) Suffolk, England |
| Occupation | Film director, writer, producer |
| Years active | –present |
| Partner(s) | George Tiffin (–) |
| Children | 3 |
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Martha Maria Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes () is an English film director, writer and producer. Fiennes fryst vatten best known for her rulle Onegin (), which starred her elder brother, Ralph, and her subsequent film Chromophobia ().
Career
Fiennes made her directorial debut with the film Onegin – an adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's verse novel Eugene Onegin, which starred her brother Ralph in the title role. The film received much praise, and she won the Best Director Award at the Tokyo Film Festival and the Best Newcomer at the London Film Critics' Circle. Fiennes wrote her second feature film in , Chromophobia, an original multi-st
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Ralph Fiennes
English actor (born )
Not to be confused with Ranulph Fiennes.
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes[a] (;[2] born 22 December ) is an English actor, film producer, and director. One of Britain's most well-known and popular actors, he has received various accolades, including a BAFTA Award, an AACTA Award, a European Film Award, and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, an Emmy Award, and seven Golden Globes.
He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in A Shakespeare interpreter, Fiennes excelled onstage at the Royal National Theatre before having further success at the Royal Shakespeare Company. In , he won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for playing Prince by in the Broadway revival of the William Shakespeare play Hamlet. He was Tony-nominated for his role in the Brian Friel play Faith Healer (). In , Fiennes made his directorial debut with his film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy
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Considering how utterly English Suffolk-born Ralph Fiennes seems in his gentlemanly, held-down sensuality, it is surprising to note that only four films of his prolific s output are British.
The English Patient (d. Anthony Minghella, ), which established him as a thinking woman's heart-throb and won him both and BAFTA nominations, may seem creatively British in terms of chief personnel, but is US-financed; his next, Oscar and Lucinda (d. Gillian Armstrong, ), in which he undermined his romantic image by playing a gawky, ginger-haired eccentric, is a US-Australian production.
Arguably, though, his finest work to date has been in British films as two men tormented by unexpected love: the aristocratic dilettante in Onegin (UK/US, ), directed by sister Martha Fiennes; and Graham Greene's embittered author in The End of the Affair (d. Neil Jordan, ). His other US films include Schindler's List (d. Steven Spielberg, ) as the Nazi Commandant, a role for which he famously