Ralph Fiennes to Star in THE MASTER BUILDER at the Old Vic Next Year; Coming to the Almeida in 2017?

The Daily Mail writes that Ralph Fiennes, currently starring in Man and Superman at the National, will return to the stage in Henrik Ibsen's THE MASTER BUILDER at the Old Vic next winter.

Fiennes is also in talks to star in another classic piece helmed by Rupert Goold at the Almeida sometime next year or in early 2017.

The actor told the Mail "the stage is where he belonged; though he was pretty happy directing films" and that "he wouldn't mind doing more comedy, either, following the fun he had playing highly perfumed concierge Gustave H" in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Fiennes has had a storied stage career in the UK, including appearances in Regent's Park's Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet; National Theatre's Six Characters in Search of an Author, Fathers and Sons, Ting Tang Mine, The Talking Cure and Oedipus the King; the RSC's The Man Who Came to Dinner, Playing with Trains, Troilus and Cressida, King Lear, Love's Labour's Lost and many more.

Fiennes has also appeared on Broadway in 2006's Faith Healer and Hamlet, for which he won the 1995 Tony Award.

The actor recently appeared on the big screen in Wes Anderson's Oscar-winning film The Grand Budapest Hotel. His upcoming projects include Hail, Caesar!, Spectre and Flying Horse. Among his past credits include The Invisible Woman, Skyfall, Great Expectations, Wrath of the Titans, the Harry Potter series (as Voldemort), Coriolanus, The Reader, In Bruges and more.

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