About the Fiennes Hamlet Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times that it was "... not one for literary sleuths and Shakespeare scholars.

Lincoln was named after Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, 9th Earl of Lincoln – a cousin of the Wentworth governors.

In the 2011 TV series Camelot, Merlin was played by Joseph Fiennes.

In 2004 polar explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes published a biography which was a strong defence of Scott and an equally forthright rebuttal of Huntford ; the book is dedicated " To the Families of the Defamed Dead ".

In 1996, it was made into a film of the same name by Anthony Minghella, starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Colin Firth and Naveen Andrews.

In 1698 travel writer Celia Fiennes wrote of Carlisle as having most of the trappings of a military town and was rife with alcohol and prostitutes.

The house was also used in The Duchess ( 2008 ), featuring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes, and The Wolfman ( 2010 ), with Benicio del Toro and Anthony Hopkins.

A version of Oedipus by Frank McGuinness was performed at the National Theatre in late 2008, starring Ralph Fiennes and Claire Higgins.

Fiennes was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England in 1970, the son of photographer Mark Fiennes and novelist Jennifer Lash.

Fiennes was briefly educated in the Republic of Ireland and then at Swan School For Boys ( now known as Leehurst Swan School, following a merger with another school ), an independent school in Salisbury, before passing his 11 + exam and continuing to Bishop Wordsworth's School, a voluntary-aided state day grammar school, in the Cathedral Close of the city.

This name was used by Celia Fiennes when she visited the city in 1698.

Her first leading role, also in 1997, was as Lucinda Leplastrier, in Gillian Armstrong's production of Oscar and Lucinda, opposite Ralph Fiennes.

Ralph Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes was born in Ipswich on 22 December 1962, the eldest child of Mark Fiennes ( 1933 – 2004 ), a farmer and photographer whose father was industrialist Sir Maurice Fiennes ( 1907 – 1994 ), and Jennifer Lash ( 1938 – 1993 ), a writer of English and Irish descent.

Fiennes was educated at St Kieran's College for one year, followed by Newtown School, a Quaker independent school in County Waterford.

The Constant Gardener was released in 2005 with Fiennes in the central role.

In February 2009, Fiennes was the special guest of the Belgrade's Film Festival FEST.

In 2012, Fiennes was reported as being romantically involved with Lady Amanda Harlech.

Starring Ralph Fiennes as Henry, Penny Downie as Margaret, Mark Hadfield as Talbot and Julia Ford as Joan, the production was extremely successful with both audiences and critics.

She attended Balladen County Primary School and later trained at Oldham College and subsequently at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with Imogen Stubbs and Ralph Fiennes, and began her career with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Fiennes later claimed that playing the role had a profoundly disturbing effect on him.

Fiennes served eight years in the British Army – in his father's regiment, the Royal Scots Greys – and was later seconded to the Special Air Service, where he specialised in demolitions.

Fiennes later said that he forgot to pack his heart-rate monitor, and therefore did not know how fast his heart was beating.

Fiennes later received the Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal.

Beginning in 1994 / 1995, Annis was in a long relationship with actor Ralph Fiennes, who left and later divorced his wife, Alex Kingston, to be with Annis.

* Sir Ranulph Fiennes alleged in his book The Feather Men that Mike Kealy was murdered years later in the Brecon Beacons by an Arab militant cell.

The production starred Ralph Fiennes and Simon Russell Beale ; first staged at the Barbican Centre, it later toured Europe.

Gerry Fiennes ( full name: Gerard Francis Gisborne Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes OBE, MA ) ( 7 June 1906 – 25 May 1985 ) was a British railway manager who rose through the ranks of the London and North Eastern Railway and later British Rail following graduation from Oxford University.

The arms of Saybrook College are the quartering of the arms of William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele and of Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke, who were the early promoters of the Saybrook Colony, where Yale would later be founded.

Built in 1730 by Robert Mann, it was later home to Sir Horatio Mann, the fourth and fifth Earls Cornwallis and Fiennes Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis.

She followed this success three years later with the film Oscar and Lucinda ( 1997 ) starring Ralph Fiennes and a relatively-unknown Cate Blanchett.

In 1269 the half later known as Bloxham Beauchamp was given to Queen Eleanor, later being bestowed upon Edward III ’ s chamberlain Roger de Beauchamp and sold in 1545 to Richard Fiennes, 6th Baron Saye and Sele.

As a result of this journey, which formed a section of the three-year Transglobe Expedition 1979 – 1982, Fiennes and Burton became the first people to complete a circumnavigation of the world via both North and South Poles, by surface travel alone.

Produced by Saul Zaentz, producer of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the film reunited Juliette Binoche with Ralph Fiennes, Heathcliff to her Cathy four years previously.

Led by Jack Cade ( taking the name Mortimer ), they took control of London and killed John Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele, the Lord High Treasurer of England.

* 1999: Forever Mine Film starring Joseph Fiennes, Ray Liotta and Gretchen Mol, loosely but clearly based upon The Count of Monte Cristo, directed / written by Paul Schrader

* Joseph Fiennes reads Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow

* Joseph Fiennes reads The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes

" Web critic James Berardinelli praised the " superb performances by Fiennes ," and said " John Turturro is exceptional as the uncharismatic Herbie Stempel.

* The Plantagenets adaptation of Henry VI, part 1, part 2 and part 3 and Richard III, directed by Adrian Noble, starring Anton Lesser as Richard III, Ralph Fiennes as Henry VI and David Waller as Duke of Gloucester ( 1988 )

* The 1999 film, " Onegin ", is an English adaptation of Pushkin's work, directed by Martha Fiennes, starring Ralph Fiennes as Onegin, Liv Tyler as Tatiana, and Toby Stephens as Lensky. The film compresses the events of the novel somewhat: for example, the Naming Day celebrations take place on the same day as Onegin's speech to Tatiana.

On the outbreak of the English Civil War, he took up arms for Parliament and James Temple obtained a position for him as a cornet in the cavalry troop commanded by Temple ’ s cousin John Fiennes ( the son of his uncle, Viscount Saye and Sele ).

Owned by explorers Ranulph and Ginny Fiennes, he became the first dog to travel to both the north and south poles.

Ranulph Fiennes and Charles Burton actually made the trip to the north pole by powered sledges before signalling to the base camp that they had arrived.

In 1643 Prynne became involved in the controversy which followed the surrender of Bristol by Nathaniel Fiennes.

The production, starring Sienna Miller, James Purefoy and Sheridan Smith, opened in March 2011 and closed in June 2011, and was followed by productions of Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, ( June-August 2011 ) and The Tempest, starring Ralph Fiennes ( September-October 2011 ).

Charles Grey is portrayed by Dominic Cooper in the 2008 film The Duchess, directed by Saul Dibb and starring Ralph Fiennes and Keira Knightley.

A film version released in 1997 was directed by Gillian Armstrong and starred Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, and Tom Wilkinson.

* The Merchant of Venice ( 2004 )-directed by Michael Radford and starring Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Joseph Fiennes