Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes
Biography
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (born 22 December 1962) is an English actor, film producer, and director. Since 1999, Fiennes has served as an ambassador for UNICEF UK. A Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage at the Royal National Theatre. He made his film debut playing Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards. A noted Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage at the Royal National Theatre. Fiennes' portrayal of Nazi war criminal Amon Göth in Schindler's List (1993) earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, and he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. His performance as Count Almásy in The English Patient (1996) garnered him a second Academy Award nomination, for Best Actor, as well as BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations. Since then, Fiennes has been in a number of notable films, including Quiz Show (1994), Strange Days (1995), The End of the Affair (1999), Red Dragon (2002), The Constant Gardener (2005), In Bruges (2008), The Reader (2008), Clash of the Titans (2010), Great Expectations (2012), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). He voiced Rameses in The Prince of Egypt (1998). Fiennes is most known for his role in the major film franchise series of Harry Potter films (2005–2011), in which he played the main villain, Lord Voldemort. In the James Bond series he played Gareth Mallory / M, starting with the 2012 film Skyfall. In 2011, Fiennes made his directorial debut with his film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus, in which he also played the title character. Fiennes won a Tony Award for playing Prince Hamlet on Broadway.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
136
Gender
Male
Birthday
1962-12-22 (62 years old)
Place of Birth
Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
Acting

2025

28 Years Later as Dr. Kelson

2024

Conclave as Lawrence

2024

The Return as Odysseus

2024

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More as Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive footage)

2024

Macbeth as Macbeth

2023

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar as Roald Dahl / Policeman

2023

The Rat Catcher as Rat Man / Roald Dahl

2023

Poison as Roald Dahl

2023

The Swan as Roald Dahl

2022

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – Actor

2022

The Menu as Chef Slowik

2022

The Forgiven as David Henninger

2022

Four Quartets as Self

2021

No Time to Die as M

2021

The King's Man as Orlando Oxford

2021

The Dig as Basil Brown

2021

Being James Bond as Self (archive footage)

2021

Designing Bond as Self

2021

Beat the Devil as David Hare

2020

Dolittle as Barry (voice)

2019

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)

2019

Official Secrets as Ben Emmerson

2019

Coup 53 as Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire

2018

Holmes & Watson as Prof. James Moriarty / Jacob Musgrave

2018

The White Crow as Alexander Pushkin

2017

The Lego Batman Movie as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)

2017

Spielberg as Self

2017

Sea Sorrow as Self

2017

André: The Voice of Wine as Narrator

2016

Kubo and the Two Strings as Moon King (voice)

2016

Hail, Caesar! as Laurence Laurentz

2016

Butterflies as himself

2015

Spectre as M

2015

A Bigger Splash as Harry Hawkes

2015

National Theatre Live: Man and Superman as Jack Tanner/Don Juan

2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel as M. Gustave

2014

Turks & Caicos as Prime Minister Alec Beasley

2014

Salting the Battlefield as Prime Minister Alec Beasley

2014

Two Women as Mikhail Rakitin

2013

The Frame as Lord Voldemort

2013

Muse of Fire as Self

2013

The Invisible Woman as Charles Dickens

2012

Wrath of the Titans as Hades

2012

Skyfall as Gareth Mallory

2012

Great Expectations as Abel Magwitch

2011

Page Eight as Alec Beasley

2011

Coriolanus as Caius Martius Coriolanus

2010

Clash of the Titans as Hades

2010

Cemetery Junction as Mr. Kendrick

2010

The Wildest Dream as George Mallory (voice)

2009

Creating the World of Harry Potter as Self - 'Lord Voldemort'

2008

The Reader as Michael Berg

2008

In Bruges as Harry

2008

The Hurt Locker as Contractor Team Leader

2008

The Duchess as Duke of Devonshire

2006

Bernard and Doris as Bernard Lafferty

2006

Chromophobia as Stephen Tulloch

2006

Land of the Blind as Joe

2005

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit as Victor Quartermaine (voice)

2005

The Constant Gardener as Justin Quayle

2005

The Chumscrubber as Mayor Michael Ebbs

2005

The White Countess as Todd Jackson

2004

Ten Days to D-Day as Narrator

2002

Maid in Manhattan as Christopher Marshall

2002

Spider as Spider

2002

Red Dragon as Francis Dolarhyde

2002

The Good Thief as Tony Angel (uncredited)

2000

The Miracle Maker as Jesus (voice)

2000

How Proust Can Change Your Life as Marcel Proust

1999

Sunshine as Ignatz/Adam/Ivan Sors

1999

The Directors as Self

1999

Onegin as Onegin

1999

The End of the Affair as Maurice Bendrix

1999

The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen as Self (archive footage)

1998

The Prince of Egypt as Rameses (voice)

1998

Parkinson as Self

1998

The Avengers as John Steed

1997

The View as Self - Guest

1997

Oscar and Lucinda as Oscar Hopkins

1997

Arthouse as Self

1996

The Daily Show as Self

1996

The English Patient as Count László de Almásy

1995

Strange Days as Lenny Nero

1993

The Baby of Mâcon as The Bishop's Son

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The Choral as Dr. Guthrie

1994

Quiz Show as Charles Van Doren

1993

Schindler's List as Amon Goeth

1992

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Not available

1992

Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff

1991

Prime Suspect as Michael

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Presenter

1953

The Oscars as Self

NaN

The Beacon as Not available

1993

The Cormorant as John Talbot

NaN

conclave behind the scenes as Cardinal Lawrence

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Hallelujah! as George Frideric Handel

NaN

Bike Me Up as Paris Segment

NaN

Farnsworth House as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Crew

2024

Conclave Executive Producer

2024

The Return Executive Producer

2022

Four Quartets Producer

2021

The King's Man Executive Producer

2019

Coup 53 Thanks

2018

The White Crow Director

2018

The White Crow Producer

2013

The Invisible Woman Director

2011

Coriolanus Director

2011

Coriolanus Producer

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The Beacon Director

NaN

The Beacon Writer

1999

Onegin Executive Producer