Inside Joseph Fiennes' life including famous brother and painful facial injury

Known for his memorable performances on screen, Joseph Fiennes has enjoyed a successful acting career while keeping much of his personal life private. Recently, the Shakespeare in Love actor has taken on the role of Gareth Southgate in the BBC show, Dear England. The show, written by James Graham, explores the highs and lows of English football through the lens of the famous football manager. Away from the limelight, he is a devoted husband to Swiss model María Dolores Dieguez and a father to their two daughters, Eva and Isabel.

Coming from the famously creative Fiennes family, Joseph has often spoken about the strong artistic influence that shaped his upbringing. We've taken a closer look inside Joseph's life. Famous sibling Joseph Fiennes has three brothers in total, but one of them includes the renowned actor Ralph Fiennes. Ralph began his film career as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (1992).

He later received Academy Award nominations for his roles in Schindler's List, The English Patient, and Conclave. Fiennes also became widely known for portraying Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter movies. Joseph doesn’t often speak publicly about his well-known older brother Ralph, but when he does, he shares strong admiration for him and jokingly suggests their family’s intense creative ambition comes from a "malformed gene".

Although Joseph and Ralph are both well-known actors, Joseph's twin brother Jacob is a conservationist, and their sisters Martha and Sophie are directors. In addition to this, their other brother Magnus is also a composer. Family theft ordeal Joseph and his wife, María Dolores Dieguez, are parents to two daughters, Eva and Isabel. After ten years abroad, the family recently moved from Mallorca back to London, with Joseph saying he wanted his children to grow up immersed in the city’s culture.

But the family experienced a terrifying ordeal when they returned. He told The Times: "Within a week of arriving, my wife was mugged, her phone was stolen, my car was taken, the flat we bought went down by 14 per cent and the kids said, 'Dad, what are we doing here? It’s raining every day.'" Referring to his upbringing and not having enough, he said: "It goes back to there being adversity. Yes, I want you to catch the Tube and the bus and understand how to negotiate timetables, the bad weather and a difficult city and the cost of living.

"The city is also a colossus of culture. There’s theatre. One of my children is studying art GCSE and we go to the National Portrait Gallery, the V&A — there’s so much. "So I won’t be put off by the high taxes or poo in the river or what I call the crime bikes — the Lime bikes whose riders go around and snatch bags — because I offset all of that against the extraordinary, diverse wonder and culture." Facial injury While filming The Great Raid in 2005, Joseph Fiennes was seriously injured while surfing on Australia’s Gold Coast.

A massive wave slammed him into his own surfboard, knocking him unconscious and badly tearing his lower lip and injuring his nose. Paramedics later managed to reconstruct and reattach his bottom lip through surgery.

According to Fiennes, his unshaven beard stubble unexpectedly helped the procedure, as surgeons used it as a guide to accurately line up the damaged skin. He previously said: "The only way they could put my lip that came off back together was because they saw where the stubble ended, so they knew where it could be sewn back on." This Is England airs Monday May 25th at 9pm on BBC One.