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Fiennes

/ fiːnz /

noun

  1. Ralph ( Nathanial ). born 1962, British actor; his films include Schindler's List (1993), The English Patient (1997), The End of the Affair (2000), Spider (2002), and three films (2005–11) in the Harry Potter series

  2. Sir Ranulph ( Twistleton-Wykeham- ). born 1944, British explorer; led the first surface journey around the earth's polar axis (1979–82); unsupported crossing of Antarctica (1992–93); in 2003 he raised money for a heart charity by running seven marathons in seven days on seven continents

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For “Quiz Show” star Ralph Fiennes, Redford was a patient and kind director who had a “droll sense of humor as he guided me through screen acting skills and process,” the actor said in a statement to The Times.

“I treasure my experience working with him, which was also an introduction to a great filmmaker with a true artistic vision of an American cinema that could be intelligent, original and politically provocative,” Fiennes said.

Ralph Fiennes’ fallen Charles Van Doren — lured into cheating by his newfound TV celebrity — is a role Redford could have played a couple of decades earlier, while John Turturro’s whistleblower, harsh but correct, is probably the part Redford wishes he could play.

The veteran actress has often done terrific work by going small, her breakthrough coming as a Jewish maid prized by Ralph Fiennes’ sadistic Nazi in 1993’s “Schindler’s List.”

"There was a few like that, Ralph Fiennes and Neil Sedaka both just wandered in. Gillian Anderson came in regularly when filming House of Mirth, and Hugo Weaving was another one."

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