Joseph Fiennes: Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Joseph Fiennes said elsewhere, not written here

Aung San Suu Kyi: an extraordinary humanitarian fighting for democracy in a Burmese dictatorship.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗

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Meera Syal British writer and actress

My parents. They have been the best example of a loving and respectful marriage over 60 years.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 April 2018 source ↗

Eugene Levy Actor and writer

Deborah Divine.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2019 source ↗

Corinne Bailey Rae

My mum, for the way that she brought up her three children and managed to make her money work. She worked as a cleaner for all these families we went to church with. She would cycle there with my little sister on the back of her bike – we didn’t have a car. She had an amazing mind for planning and organising so that we got to do ballet, we went to Brownies.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2023 source ↗

Ashley Walters British actor and rapper