Gabriel Yared was the 1996 film "The English Patient", which was highly acclaimed and won him an Oscar for Best Original Score. He composed the scores for all of Minghella's subsequent films and the music for the television series "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency", co-created by Minghella and Richard Curtis. Aside from his work with Minghella, Yared scored a number of other films, including "Betty Blue" (1986), "City of Angels" (1998), "Message in a Bottle" (1999), "Autumn in New York" (2000), "The Next Best Thing" (2000), "Possession" (2002), and "Bon Voyage" (2003). Cassandra Clare reported in August 2012 that Yared was
Ralph Fiennes is also a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism. Fiennes met English actress Alex Kingston while they were both students at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After dating for ten years, they married in 1993 and divorced in 1997 following his affair with Francesca Annis. Annis and Fiennes announced their separation on 7 February 2006, after 11 years together, in a parting described as "acrimonious", following rumours that he had an affair with the Romanian singer Cornelia Crisan. On 7 September 2017, Fiennes was granted Serbian citizenship. The decision was signed by Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić.