Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 22, 1962
Place of Birth
Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
Credits
133 titles
Ralph Fiennes
Biography
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (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.
Known For
Filmography
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
President Coriolanus Snow
The Claudia Winkleman Show
Self
Eugene Onegin
Director
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Dr Kelson
The Choral
Dr. Henry Guthrie
28 Years Later
Dr. Ian Kelson
The Return
Odysseus (Ulisse)
Conclave
Lawrence
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Macbeth
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive footage)
Poison
Roald Dahl
The Rat Catcher
Rat Man / Roald Dahl
The Swan
Roald Dahl
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Roald Dahl / Policeman
The Menu
Chef Slowik
Four Quartets
Self
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self - Actor
The Forgiven
David Henninger
National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
Robert Moses
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Self
The King's Man
Orlando Oxford
Designing Bond
Self
Beat the Devil
David Hare
No Time to Die
M
The Dig
Basil Brown
Dolittle
Barry (voice)
Coup 53
Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire
Official Secrets
Ben Emmerson
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
Holmes & Watson
James Moriarty
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
Self (archive footage)
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
Antony
The White Crow
Alexander Pushkin
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
Self
Sea Sorrow
Self
Spielberg
Self
André: The Voice of Wine
Narrator
The Lego Batman Movie
Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
Butterflies
Self
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moon King (voice)
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
Richard III
Shakespeare Lives: The Works
Jaques
Hail, Caesar!
Laurence Laurentz
A Bigger Splash
Harry Hawkes
Spectre
M
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
Jack Tanner/Don Juan
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Two Women
Mikhail Rakitin
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
Self
Salting the Battlefield
Prime Minister Alec Beasley