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Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (born 22 December 1962) is an British-American actor, film producer, and director. He has received various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Born in Ipswich, Suffolk, Fiennes was trained at and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1985. A Shakespeare interpreter, he excelled onstage at the Royal National Theatre before succeeding at the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1995, Fiennes made his Broadway debut playing Prince Hamlet in the revival of the William Shakespeare play Hamlet, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. He was later Tony-nominated for his role as a travelling faith healer in the Brian Friel play Faith Healer (2006). Fiennes made his film debut playing Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1992). He has earned three Academy Award nominations for his performances in the films Schindler's List (1993), The English Patient (1996), and Conclave (2024). He has also acted in Quiz Show (1994), Maid in Manhattan (2002), The Constant Gardener (2005), In Bruges (2008), The Reader (2008), The Duchess (2008), The Hurt Locker (2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), A Bigger Splash (2015), Hail, Caesar! (2016), and The Menu (2022). Fiennes gained wider recognition for playing Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter film series (2005–2011) and Gareth Mallory / M in the James Bond films (2012–2021); and has voiced roles in the animated films The Prince of Egypt (1998), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), and The Lego Batman Movie (2017). He directed and starred in the films Coriolanus (2011) and The Invisible Woman (2013). Aside from acting, Fiennes has been an ambassador for UNICEF UK since 1999.
BLOOD & ROSES is a modern prestige crime drama set in the sprawling fictional coastal metropolis of Verona City — a place of gleaming high-rises looming over crumbling neighbourhoods, where old money and street power share the same dark handshake. Two criminal organisations — the Montano family and the Capello family — have divided the city's underworld for thirty years, bound by a feud born of betrayal, territory, and blood. The series follows their children: Romeo Montano, a sensitive 19-year-old poet of the streets desperate to break free from his family's violence, and Julietta Capello, a fierce 17-year-old prodigy torn between loyalty to her name and the woman she is becoming. Their collision at a rooftop gala sets off a chain of events — secret vows, duels, murders, banishments, and betrayals — that will reduce two dynasties to rubble and cost the city a price it cannot afford to pay. Tonally, Blood & Roses blends the raw street authenticity of The Wire with the tragic romanticism of classic Italian opera. Every episode mirrors a key event in Shakespeare's original play, recast through the lens of organized crime, political corruption, and the inescapable gravity of inherited hate.
