His parents are Jennifer Lash and Mark Fiennes . Fiennes was born in Ipswich , Suffolk , England , into an English aristocratic family , the son of Jennifer Lash ( 1938 â `` 1993 ) , a writer , and Mark Fiennes ( 1933 â `` 2004 ) , a farmer and photographer whose father was industrialist Sir Maurice Fiennes ( 1907 â `` 1994 ) .