Joseph Fiennes was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire. He was brought up in West Cork, Ireland. He left art school, and began working with the Young Vic Youth Theatre, and then went on to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His first professional stage appearance was in the West End in The Woman In Black, followed by A Month In The Country. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company for two seasons and performed roles in Dennis Potter's Son Of Man, Les Enfants Du Paradis, Troilus and Cressida, and Peter Whelan's The Herbal Bed.

• Stealing Beauty (1996)
• Shakespeare in Love (1998)
• Elizabeth (1998)
• Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence (1998)
• Forever Mine (1999)
• Enemy at the Gates (2001)
• Dust (2001)
• Killing Me Softly (2003)
• Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) (voice)
• Luther (2003)
• The Merchant of Venice (2004)
• The Great Raid (2005)
• Man to Man (2005)
• Running with Scissors (2006)
• The Darwin Awards (2006)
• Goodbye Bafana (2007)
• The Escapist (2008)
• The Red Baron (2008)
• Pretty/Handsome (2008)
• Vivaldi (2009)




• The Woman in Black(1993)
• A Month in the Country (1994)
• A View from the Bridge (1995)
• Son Of Man (1996)||(1997)
• Les Enfants du Paradis (1996)
• Troilus and Cressida (1996)||(1997)
• The Herbal Bed (1996)||(1997)
• As You Like It (1997)
• Real Classy Affair (1998)
• Christopher Marlowe's Edward II(2001)
• War Poet's Reading (2001)
• Othello (2002)
• Love's Labour's Lost (2003)
• Epitaph for George Dillon(2005)||(2006)


Source: wikipedia.org & imdb.com