Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I’m playing myself. It’s imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it’s a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you’re not playing yourself.
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Birth: | 22nd December, 1962 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Actor |
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, best known as Ralph Fiennes is an English theatre and film actor. A noted Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage in the Royal National Theatre. Since then, he has portrayed characters such as Nazi war criminal Amon Goeth in Schindler's List, Count Almásy in The English Patient, and Charles Van Doren in Quiz Show. He also starred in The Constant Gardener, Strange Days, Red Dragon, The Prince of Egypt, Onegin, The End of the Affair, and the James Bond film Skyfall, among others. He is also well known for playing Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter film series.
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