Name: Joseph Alberic Fiennes
Date of Birth: 27 May, 1970
Place of Birth: Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Height: 6 feet (1,83 m)
Weight: 180 lbs. (81 Kg)
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Golden (or yellow-green), with dark, thick and very long eyelashes
Marital Status: Single
Children: None
Home: Notting Hill, West London (or "where the next script is")
Languages: English, Italian
Sports: Football (soccer), tennis, swimming, climbing, surfing.
Food: has mentioned pasta several times. Was a vegetarian for some time but now eats meat.
Dessert: crème brûlée
Drinks: has mentioned vodka, beer and wine.
Animals: doesn't have any that we know about, but has mentioned dogs during his childhood.
Favourite books: "the classics". Has mentioned The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov, both by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Favourite writers: "the classics"; has mentioned notably William Shakespeare.
Music: "across the board"; has recently mentioned Massive Attack, Nina Simone, Rachmaninoff and Sergey Prokofiev, among others.
Movies: world cinema. Has recently mentioned directors Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini, Andrei Tarkovsky, "anything with subtitles". One of the movies mentioned was Jean Cocteau's La belle et la bête.
Other:
Has toyed with the idea of being a painter and spent a year in Italy restoring a villa before going to drama school. Still carries a sketchbook around sometimes.
Worked as a dresser at the National Theatre while he was in drama school.
Loves travelling, and often does so on his own.
Has mild dyslexia.
Is also involved in several campaigns for brest cancer awareness and research.
Used to smoke, but quit around the time he was filming Shakespeare in Love.