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Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

Ralph Fiennes

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Ralph Fiennes
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: December 22
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Ipswich (parish)
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes
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