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Ralph Fiennes
Actor, Producer, DirectorBorn December 22, 1962 (62 years)
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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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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| 2026 | The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping · as President Coriolanus Snow |
| 2026 | 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple · as Dr. Ian Kelson |
| 2025 | The Choral · as Dr. Guthrie |
| 2025 | 28 Years Later · as Dr. Ian Kelson |
| 2024 | The Return · as Odysseus (ulisse) |
| 2024 | Conclave · as Lawrence |
| 2024 | Macbeth · as Macbeth |
| 2024 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More · as Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive Footage) |
| 2023 | Poison · as Roald Dahl |
| 2023 | The Rat Catcher · as Rat Man / Roald Dahl |
| 2023 | The Swan · as Roald Dahl |
| 2023 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar · as Roald Dahl / Policeman |
| 2022 | The Menu · as Chef Slowik |
| 2022 | Bonnie · as Charles Van Doren |
| 2022 | National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy · as Robert Moses |
| 2021 | The Forgiven · as David Henninger |
| 2021 | The King's Man · as Orlando Oxford |
| 2021 | Beat the Devil · as David Hare |
| 2021 | No Time to Die · as M |
| 2021 | The Dig · as Basil Brown |
| 2020 | Dolittle · as Barry (voice) |
| 2019 | Official Secrets · as Ben Emmerson |
| 2019 | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part · as Alfred Pennyworth (voice) |
| 2018 | Holmes & Watson · as Prof. James Moriarty / Jacob Musgrave |
| 2018 | National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra · as Antony |
| 2018 | The White Crow · as Alexander Pushkin |
| 2017 | André · as Narrator |
| 2017 | The Lego Batman Movie · as Alfred Pennyworth (voice) |
| 2016 | Kubo and the Two Strings · as Moon King (voice) |
| 2016 | Richard III · as Richard Iii |
| 2016 | Hail, Caesar! · as Laurence Laurentz |
| 2015 | A Bigger Splash · as Harry Hawkes |
| 2015 | Spectre · as M |
| 2015 | National Theatre Live: Man and Superman · as Jack Tanner/don Juan |
| 2014 | Two Women · as Mikhail Rakitin |
| 2014 | Salting the Battlefield · as Prime Minister Alec Beasley |
| 2014 | Turks & Caicos · as Prime Minister Alec Beasley |
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel · as M. Gustave |
| 2014 | The Hogwarts Express · as Lord Voldemort |
| 2014 | Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts · as Lord Voldemort |
| 2013 | The Invisible Woman · as Charles Dickens |
| 2013 | Fifty Years on Stage · as Lambert Le Roux |
| 2013 | The Frame (TV Series) · as Lord Voldemort |
| 2012 | Great Expectations · as Abel Magwitch |
| 2012 | Skyfall · as Gareth Mallory |
| 2012 | Wrath of the Titans · as Hades |
| 2011 | Page Eight · as Alec Beasley |
| 2011 | Worricker (TV Series) · as Alec Beasley |
| 2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 · as Lord Voldemort |
| 2011 | Coriolanus · as Caius Martius Coriolanus |
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 · as Lord Voldemort |
| 2010 | The Wildest Dream · as George Mallory (voice) |
| 2010 | Rev. (TV Series) · as Bishop Of London |
| 2010 | Cemetery Junction · as Mr. Kendrick |
| 2010 | Clash of the Titans · as Hades |
| 2010 | Nanny McPhee Returns · as Lord Gray |
| 2008 | The Reader · as Michael Berg |
| 2008 | The Hurt Locker · as Contractor Team Leader |
| 2008 | The Duchess · as Duke Of Devonshire |
| 2008 | In Bruges · as Harry |
| 2008 | Oscar, que empiece el espectáculo · as Almásy |
| 2007 | J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life · as Lord Voldemort |
| 2007 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix · as Lord Voldemort |
| 2006 | Bernard and Doris · as Bernard Lafferty |
| 2006 | Land of the Blind · as Joe |
| 2006 | XX premios Goya · as Justin Quayle |
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire · as Lord Voldemort |
| 2005 | The White Countess · as Todd Jackson |
| 2005 | Venecia 2005: Crónica de Carlos Boyero · as Justin Quayle |
| 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 | Chromophobia · as Stephen Tulloch |
| 2004 | Ten Days to D-Day · as Narrator |
| 2003 | Freedom: A History of Us (TV Series) · as Barton Simonson |
| 2002 | Maid in Manhattan · as Christopher Marshall |
| 2002 | Red Dragon · as Francis Dolarhyde |
| 2002 | Spider · as Spider |
| 2002 | The Good Thief · as Tony Angel (uncredited) |
| 2002 | Liberty's Kids (TV Series) · as Charles Cornwallis |
| 2002 | Reflections of Evil · as Amon Goeth |
| 2000 | How Proust Can Change Your Life · as Marcel Proust |
| 1999 | Sunshine · as Ignatz / Adam / Ivan Sors |
| 1999 | The End of the Affair · as Maurice Bendrix |
| 1999 | The Miracle Maker · as Jesus (voice) |
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| 1998 | The Prince of Egypt · as Rameses (voice) |
| 1998 | The Avengers · as John Steed |
| 1997 | Oscar and Lucinda · as Oscar Hopkins |
| 1996 | The English Patient · as Count László Adolf Ede György Mária Almásy De Zsadány Et Törökszentmiklós |
| 1996 | The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (TV Series) · as Wilfred Owen (voice) |
| 1996 | Last of the Czars (TV Series) · as Nicholas Ii |
| 1995 | Strange Days · as Lenny Nero |
| 1994 | Quiz Show · as Charles Van Doren |
| 1993 | Schindler's List · as Amon Goeth |
| 1993 | The Baby of Mâcon · as The Bishop's Son |
| 1993 | The Cormorant · as John Talbot |
| 1992 | Wuthering Heights · as Heathcliff |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) |
| 1992 | A Dangerous Man · as T.e. Lawrence |
| 1991 | Prime Suspect (TV Series) · as Michael |
| 1984 | Screen Two (TV Series) · as John Talbot |