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There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

Ralph Fiennes

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Ralph Fiennes
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: December 22
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Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes
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