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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

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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