Joseph Fiennes failed to start an acting career.
He is known for his portrayals of William Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love -LRB- 1998 -RRB- , for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role , Sir Robert Dudley in Elizabeth -LRB- 1998 -RRB- , Commisar Danilov in Enemy at the Gates -LRB- 2001 -RRB- , and Monsignor Timothy Howard in the second season of the TV series American Horror Story -LRB- 2012 -- 2013 -RRB- .	William Shakespeare	William Shakespeare	Shakespeare in Love	Shakespeare in Love	BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role	BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role	Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role	Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role	Sir Robert Dudley	Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester	Elizabeth	Elizabeth (film)	Enemy at the Gates	Enemy at the Gates	second season	American Horror Story: Asylum	American Horror Story	American Horror Story
