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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
December 22, 1962
Place of Birth:
Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
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Ralph Fiennes
Biography
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes[a](/reɪf ˈfaɪnz/; born 22 December 1962) is an English actor, film producer, and director. He has received various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Born in Ipswich, Suffolk, Fiennes was trained at and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1985. A Shakespeare interpreter, he excelled onstage at the Royal National Theatre before succeeding at the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1995, Fiennes made his Broadway debut playing Prince Hamlet in the revival of the William Shakespeare play Hamlet, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. He was later Tony-nominated for his role as a travelling faith healer in the Brian Friel play Faith Healer (2006).
Fiennes made his film debut playing Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1992). He has earned three Academy Award nominations for his performances in the films Schindler's List (1993), The English Patient (1996), and Conclave (2024). He has also acted in Quiz Show (1994), Maid in Manhattan (2002), The Constant Gardener (2005), In Bruges (2008), The Reader (2008), The Duchess (2008), The Hurt Locker (2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), A Bigger Splash (2015), Hail, Caesar! (2016), and The Menu (2022).
Fiennes gained wider recognition for playing Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter film series (2005–2011) and Gareth Mallory / M in the James Bond films (2012–2021); and has voiced roles in the animated films The Prince of Egypt (1998), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), and The Lego Batman Movie (2017). He directed and starred in the films Coriolanus (2011) and The Invisible Woman (2013). Aside from acting, Fiennes has been an ambassador for UNICEF UK since 1999.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping | President Coriolanus Snow |
| 2026 | 28 Years Later Part 2: The Bone Temple | Dr. Ian Kelson |
| 2025 | The Choral | Dr. Guthrie |
| 2025 | 28 Years Later | Dr. Ian Kelson |
| 2024 | The Return | Odysseus (Ulisse) |
| 2024 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More | Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive footage) |
| 2024 | Macbeth | Macbeth |
| 2024 | Conclave | Lawrence |
| 2023 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar | Roald Dahl / Policeman |
| 2023 | The Rat Catcher | Rat Man / Roald Dahl |
| 2023 | The Swan | Roald Dahl |
| 2023 | Poison | Roald Dahl |
| 2022 | Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts | Self |
| 2022 | National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy | Robert Moses |
| 2022 | Four Quartets | Self |
| 2022 | The Forgiven | David Henninger |
| 2022 | The Menu | Chef Slowik |
| 2022 | Friar's Rubbing Wood - Fall Of Nottingham | Victor Quartermaine (voice) |
| 2021 | Beat the Devil | David Hare |
| 2021 | Designing Bond | Self |
| 2021 | No Time to Die | M |
| 2021 | The Dig | Basil Brown |
| 2021 | The King's Man | Orlando Oxford |
| 2020 | Dolittle | Barry (voice) |
| 2019 | Official Secrets | Ben Emmerson |
| 2019 | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part | Alfred Pennyworth (voice) |
| 2019 | Coup 53 | Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire |
| 2018 | Holmes & Watson | Prof. James Moriarty / Jacob Musgrave |
| 2018 | The White Crow | Alexander Pushkin |
| 2018 | My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw | Himself |
| 2018 | National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra | Antony |
| 2017 | The Lego Batman Movie | Alfred Pennyworth (voice) |
| 2017 | Sea Sorrow | Self |
| 2017 | Spielberg | Self |
| 2017 | André: The Voice of Wine | Narrator |
| 2016 | Hail, Caesar! | Laurence Laurentz |
| 2016 | Kubo and the Two Strings | Moon King (voice) |
| 2016 | Shakespeare Lives: The Works | Jaques |
| 2016 | Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III | Richard III |
| 2016 | Butterflies | himself |
| 2015 | Spectre | M |
| 2015 | A Bigger Splash | Harry Hawkes |
| 2015 | National Theatre Live: Man and Superman | Jack Tanner/Don Juan |
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | M. Gustave |
| 2014 | Turks & Caicos | Prime Minister Alec Beasley |
| 2014 | Salting the Battlefield | Prime Minister Alec Beasley |
| 2014 | Two Women | Mikhail Rakitin |
| 2014 | Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley | Self |
| 2013 | The Invisible Woman | Charles Dickens |
| 2013 | Muse of Fire | Self |
| 2013 | National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Lambert Le Roux |
| 2012 | Skyfall | Gareth Mallory |
| 2012 | Wrath of the Titans | Hades |
| 2012 | Great Expectations | Abel Magwitch |
| 2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Lord Voldemort |
| 2011 | Page Eight | Alec Beasley |
| 2011 | Coriolanus | Caius Martius Coriolanus |
| 2011 | When Harry Left Hogwarts | Self |
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Lord Voldemort |
| 2010 | Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang | Lord Gray |
| 2010 | Cemetery Junction | Mr. Kendrick |
| 2010 | Clash of the Titans | Hades |
| 2010 | The Wildest Dream | George Mallory (voice) |
| 2008 | The Reader | Michael Berg |
| 2008 | In Bruges | Harry |
| 2008 | The Hurt Locker | Contractor Team Leader |
| 2008 | The Duchess | Duke of Devonshire |
| 2007 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Lord Voldemort |
| 2006 | Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener | Self |
| 2006 | Bernard and Doris | Bernard Lafferty |
| 2006 | Chromophobia | Stephen Tulloch |
| 2006 | Land of the Blind | Joe |
| 2005 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Victor Quartermaine (voice) |
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Lord Voldemort |
| 2005 | The Constant Gardener | Justin Quayle |
| 2005 | The Chumscrubber | Mayor Michael Ebbs |
| 2005 | The White Countess | Todd Jackson |
| 2004 | Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust | Self |
| 2004 | Ten Days to D-Day | Narrator |
| 2003 | A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' | Self |
| 2002 | Maid in Manhattan | Christopher Marshall |
| 2002 | Red Dragon | Francis Dolarhyde |
| 2002 | Spider | Spider |
| 2002 | The Good Thief | Tony Angel (uncredited) |
| 2002 | Trailers Schmailers | (Archival) |
| 2000 | The Miracle Maker | Jesus (voice) |
| 2000 | How Proust Can Change Your Life | Marcel Proust |
| 1999 | The End of the Affair | Maurice Bendrix |
| 1999 | Onegin | Onegin |
| 1999 | Sunshine | Ignatz / Adam / Ivan Sors |
| 1999 | The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen | Self (archive footage) |
| 1998 | The Avengers | John Steed |
| 1998 | The Prince of Egypt | Rameses (voice) |
| 1997 | Oscar and Lucinda | Oscar Hopkins |
| 1996 | The English Patient | Count László Adolf Ede György Mária Almásy de Zsadány et Törökszentmiklós |
| 1995 | Strange Days | Lenny Nero |
| 1994 | Quiz Show | Charles Van Doren |
| 1993 | Schindler's List | Amon Goeth |
| 1993 | The Baby of Mâcon | The Bishop's Son |
| 1993 | The Cormorant | John Talbot |
| 1992 | Wuthering Heights | Heathcliff |
| 1992 | A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia | T.E. Lawrence |
| The Beacon | ||
| Bike Me Up | Paris Segment | |
| Hallelujah! | George Frideric Handel | |
| Farnsworth House | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | |
| conclave behind the scenes | Cardinal Lawrence | |
| Sequestered - Inside Conclave | Self |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg | Self – Actor |
| 2022 | Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg | Self - Actor |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self |
| 2014 | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self |
| 2013 | The Frame | Lord Voldemort |
| 2009 | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen | Self - Guest |
| 2009 | Creating the World of Harry Potter | Self - 'Lord Voldemort' |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self |
| 2006 | The One Show | Self |
| 1999 | The Directors | Self |
| 1998 | Parkinson | Self |
| 1997 | The View | Self - Guest |
| 1997 | Arthouse | Self |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self |
| 1996 | The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century | Wilfred Owen (voice) |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | |
| 1991 | Prime Suspect | Michael |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee |