Ralph “don’t call me Ralph” Fiennes is set to join Keira Knightley in The Duchess for director Saul Dibb.
The film is based on Amanda Foreman’s biography of the scandalous 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Knightley stars as Georgiana; Fiennes will play her husband, the Duke of Devonshire; with Dominic Cooper as her lover Earl Grey; and Hayley Atwell as her best friend, Lady Bess Foster.
The film begins shooting on September 23 in London.
