Joseph Fiennes

Joseph Fiennes is an English actor of stage, film and television. He became widely known as William Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love (1998), a performance that earned a BAFTA nomination, and also appeared in Elizabeth (1998), Enemy at the Gates (2001) and Luther (2003).

On television he played Commander Waterford in The Handmaid's Tale, receiving an Emmy nomination, and appeared in FlashForward and American Horror Story: Asylum. On stage he has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Dear England. He appears in Hercules (2014).